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Let's eat vegetables!
Last update date May 8, 2024
■The function of vegetables
Vegetables contain a lot of nutrients that keep the body healthy, such as vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and pigments that help your body.
Most of these nutrients cannot be made by our body, so they need to be supplemented from vegetables.
In addition to preventing constipation and infectious diseases, vegetables are indispensable foods to prevent lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, and to prevent serious illness.
■Do you have enough vegetables?
Vegetables required per day are 350g or more a day, and 5 to 6 dishes.
A Yokohama survey shows that citizens' intake is short on average about one dish.
If you think "Isn't there enough vegetables?", Let's start with one plate first.
<350g Standard for Vegetables>
<Guidance for 5 dishes of vegetable dishes>
■Tips to eat plenty of vegetables
●Have a consciousness to eat one or two dishes every meal!
●Good use of frozen foods, dried foods, cut vegetables, etc.!
●Steaming, boiling, stir-fry, etc. to reduce the bulk!
●You can easily eat tomatoes and cucumbers as they are!
●Vegetable juice is considered as a supplement to vegetables, and half of the amount you drink can count as vegetables!
■Please take advantage of the vegetable cooking recipe!
According to a survey conducted by Naka Ward, the reasons for lack of vegetables, such as "sufficient preparation" and "small repertoire of vegetable dishes."
Introducing easy-to-use recipes and delicious school lunch recipes.
Please add it to one of my home!
"Easy Recipe Collection"
・Simple rice de vegetables! (Print data) (PDF: 16,510KB)
You can easily make it within 10 minutes.
It is a recipe that uses a lot of cut vegetables, canned foods, and retort foods that do not require preparation.
"Yokohama School Food Education Foundation Homepage" (published by school lunch Recipes)
Many recipes offered at school lunch Elementary School in Yokohama are published.
It is full of nostalgic menus for adults and recipes for vegetables that are easy for children to eat!
・Yokohama School Food Education Foundation homepage (outside site)
■Local production for local consumption of Yokohama
Even though Yokohama is an urban area, agriculture is thriving and makes a lot of delicious vegetables.
Consuming fresh, nutritious, locally produced agricultural and livestock products in the area is called "local production for local consumption."
Local production for local consumption reduces the burden on the global environment, and by supporting local agriculture leads to regional revitalization.
Do you not know the agriculture of Yokohama and rediscover the charm of Yokohama?
"JA Yokohama Website"
It is full of information that conveys the charm of the Yokohama "Agriculture" theater and vegetables that convey the charm of the Yokohama "Agriculture" theater and vegetables.
Direct sales place information and recipes using vegetables are also posted.
Check it out!
・JA Yokohama homepage (outside site)
"Yokohama Vegetables Sales Office in the Ward"
Yokohama Vegetable Sales Office is held regularly in various parts of Naka Ward.
Would you like to go out to find delicious seasonal Yokohama vegetables?
Please bring your eco bag with you when you come.
Yokohama City Hall Direct Sales Office
Nakamotomaki Community House (PDF: 492KB)
・Mugita Community Care Plaza (under preparation)
"Yokohama Local Production for Local Consumption Support Shop"
In Yokohama-shi, we register and introduce restaurants that incorporate agricultural and livestock products such as vegetables and fruits from the city and offer them as "Yokohama Local Production for Local Consumption Support Shops" and introduce .
Yokohama local production for local consumption support shop
※Depending on the season, menus from the city may not be provided. Thank you for your understanding.
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For inquiries to this page
Naka Ward Health and Welfare Center Health and Welfare Division
Phone: 045-224-8332
Phone: 045-224-8332
Fax: 045-224-8157
Email address: na-fukuho@city.yokohama.jp
Page ID: 477-344-726