An array of vegetables and fruits complement fall salads.
As summer turns to fall, warm-weather salads featuring components like strawberries, orange slices and edible flowers give way to offerings with more seasonally appropriate ingredients, says Elyse Krawtz, a registered dietitian nutritionist with Northside Hospital in Atlanta. “Fall salads can be beautiful with the rich colors characteristic of fall produce,” Krawtz says. “Fall is a good time to bring back root vegetables like beets, sweet potatoes and carrots.”
Here are 15 ingredients for healthy fall salads:
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To recap, here are 15 healthy fall salad ingredient suggestions:
— Apples.
— Beets.
— Carrots.
— Shredded raw Brussels sprouts.
— Cauliflower.
— Sweet potatoes.
— Kale.
— Mushrooms.
— Shredded red cabbage.
— Butternut squash.
— Tomatoes and tomatillos.
— Pears.
— Persimmons.
— Pomegranates.
— Zucchini.
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