Health Benefits of Dark Green Vegetables

What are the health benefits and vitamins in Dark Green Vegetables?

Vitamins in Dark Green Vegetables

→ Some of the dark green leafy vegetables are salad greens, kale and spinach, broccoli, bok choy and mustard.
→ Almost every green leafy vegetables are rich source of iron, calcium and Folate

→ Vitamin K in the leaves will prevent the pre-aging conditions and also helps us to stay young.
→ Its low in cholesterol, thus aids in fat digestion by secreting the bile acid.
→ Greens like kale, dandelion, mustard greens and Swiss chard are the rich source of carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, reducing the risk of eye damage.

Listed the Vitamin Content in Dark leafy vegetables

Vitamins	Unit	Value per 100g
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	5.7
Thiamin	mg	0.061
Riboflavin	mg	0.069
Niacin	mg	0.779
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.100
Folate, DFE	µg	40
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.00
Vitamin A, RAE	µg	303
Vitamin A, IU	IU	6067
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	mg	0.52
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0.0
Vitamin D	IU	0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	µg	24.5

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