Vegetables: pepper, green pepper, colored pepper, onion, cauliflower, sweet beans, peas, celery, lettuce, shepherd's purse, rape, spinach, Toona sinensis, bamboo shoots, Malantou, gourd and leek.

Fruits: guava, jujube, loquat, mulberry, cherry, lotus mist (late spring).

2. Summer (April to June in the lunar calendar)

Vegetables: pepper, loofah, bitter gourd, wax gourd, kidney bean, asparagus, water bamboo, onion, cucumber, bergamot, pumpkin, amaranth, hawthorn, water spinach, asparagus, sweet potato leaves, bamboo shoots, lettuce, tomato, cabbage and eggplant.

Fruits: strawberry, lotus spray, peach, plum, watermelon, pineapple, mango, lemon, passion fruit, pitaya, apricot, litchi, kiwi, banana, coconut and cherry.

3. Autumn (July to September in the lunar calendar)

Vegetables: okra, water chestnut, lotus root, pepper, chestnut, wax gourd, green beans (kidney beans), sweet potato leaves, beans, yam, Chinese cabbage and lentils.

Fruits: grapefruit, pear, persimmon, papaya, apple, lotus seed, sugarcane, grape, pitaya, carambola, guava, apricot, orange, jujube, hawthorn and walnut.

4. Winter (October to December of the lunar calendar)

Vegetables: green pepper, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, onion, cauliflower, carrot, radish, sweet bean, celery, spinach, mustard, sunflower and lettuce.

Fruit: orange, orange, grapefruit, jujube, sugarcane, Sakyamuni.

Nutritional color

Green vegetables: Green fruits and vegetables are rich in folic acid, which has been proved to be one of the "panacea" to prevent fetal neural tube malformation. At the same time, a large amount of folic acid can effectively remove too much homocysteine in the blood and protect the heart. In addition, green vegetables are also the best source of calcium, enjoying the title of "life element", and their reserves are more than milk containing calcium and rich in minerals, so eating "green" is regarded by nutritionists as the best way to supplement calcium.

In addition, green vegetables are rich in vitamins C, B 1, B2, carotene and various trace elements. It has a certain sedative effect on hypertension and insomnia and is beneficial to the liver. Green vegetables also contain lemon yellow, which can prevent sugar from being converted into fat.

Yellow vegetables: such as carrots, soybeans, peanuts, apricots, etc. are rich in two vitamins: one is vitamin A; The other is vitamin D, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and has a certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people. Therefore, it is undoubtedly wise for these people to pay more attention to yellow food.

Leek, pumpkin, carrot, etc. , rich in vitamin E, can reduce skin spots, delay aging, benefit spleen, pancreas and other organs, and regulate gastrointestinal digestive function. Lutein contained in yellow vegetables and green vegetables has a strong anticancer effect.

Refer to the above? People's Network _ Eat more than five kinds of vegetables in spring, try it early and stay healthy! ; Baidu encyclopedia-vegetables