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Everything you need to know about watercress, the healthiest vegetable on Earth
Updated On: 17 August, 2023 07:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Pooja Patel
Here’s all you need to know about watercress, a leafy vegetable that has been selected as the healthiest on the planet by US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Quinoa, blueberries, goji, avocado, among others have been popular for their high nutritional value and some of them have also been called superfoods. But when it comes to the highest nutrition levels, there’s an unsuspecting leafy vegetable that takes the ‘kale’. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a national public health agency in the United States, announced that watercress is the healthiest vegetable on Earth.
CDC assigns nutrition density scores to foods based on the concentration of important minerals and vitamins. While spinach, chard and beet greens scored in the range of 80s, watercress is the only vegetable to earn a perfect score of 100. Jalkumbhi, as watercress is locally called in Hindi, is best consumed in winters, as that’s when the best produce arrives in the market.
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