Most of us probably don’t get enough vitamins and minerals in our diet. I recently read that Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies Increase Age-related Disease. It referenced vitamin K and how important it is for blood coagulation. I take a vitamin K supplement every day but there foods you can eat too. Vitamin K can be found mainly in leafy green vegetables like spinach, Swiss chard, and Brassica (such as cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, and brussels sprouts). Some fruits contain vitamin K such as avocado and kiwifruit. Here is an interesting tidbit, did you know that two tablespoons of parsley contains 153% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin K?

Also there are some vegetable oils, the best one being soybean which contains vitamin K. Another vitamin I take is vitamin C, although I probably don’t need to take that one anymore because I’ve been eating a lot of yellow and red peppers this summer. There is nothing like fresh vegetables out of the garden. If you were thinking that oranges contain the most vitamin C, you would be mistaken. Peppers have way more vitamin C than oranges. You can put peppers in salads, cut them up and add a little salad dressing and you have a wonderful, healthy treat.