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RE: Doctor Said I Wasn't Getting Enough 'Yellow' In My Diet
I never knew minerals were part of what made colours in plants @therealpaul; thanks for that info.
Are there other edible greens that have roots going deep into the earth's crust like the dock plant?
Over here, I don't do much of salad but I do eat a lot of water leaf and pumpkin leaves too in my soup. I don't know if that counts?
I reasoned that if plants are made of minerals and water, then the geometry of those minerals would determine which bandwidth of light would be reflected, and which would be absorbed.
I can only think of a carrot as another plant that would be considered a deep feeder like dock, though there are surely more that I haven't learned of yet. There are lots of varieties of dock here, though I don't know them all by name.
The greens in the soup should count, some vitamins might be lost in cooking, but the minerals that they contain should still be there if they are cooked there in the soup, I think.
Okay thanks. I think I will do some personal research in this. I am trying to treat myself better. I am not much of a food person but I am trying to improve my diet and intake.