I’ve been absent for a few days, attending a funeral out of town and trying to beat off this hideous virus I’m carrying (which also seems to be plaguing man-go-round and my Dad at this point).

Yesterday I made it out of the house long enough to buy some fresh produce, in hopes that the vitamins and nutrients would help me in the battle of the cold. As I was chomping down some delicious strawberries this morning, a thought bubble started slowly growing in my congested head:

“hmmm… I’m pretty sure strawberries are high in vitamin C, but I wonder what else has the highest vitamin levels?”

And presto, an afternoon activity was born that would keep me in the house and on the couch for rest without going stir crazy with cabin fever- I thought I’d use this website to make a spreadsheet of fruits and veggies and their respective vitamin and mineral levels. And if I’m going to do this work, I might as well share it with you all, right? So here are the rules:

• Each serving size based on 1 cup of chopped/ diced fruit or vegetable (unless *, in which case it was 100 grams)
• Any numbers in the charts are % of Daily Value needed. I only included levels above 9/10 %
• For each category (fruit/ veg) I picked a gold, silver, bronze award for Vitamin C as well as highlighted some overall superstars across categories.

So there you have it! Are any of these news to you? How did your favorite fruits or veggies score?

I’m off to check more of these off my list (so far today I’ve had strawberries, red pepper, and cabbage… I see broccoli in my future…)

Meri