Why Americans Don’t Eat Enough Vegetables
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2015
- In 2011 the USDA counted two tablespoons of tomato paste as a serving of vegetables, why don’t Americans eat their veggies?
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The U.S. Doesn't Have Enough Of The Vegetables We're Supposed To Eat
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“If you are looking for proof that Americans' vegetable habits lean towards french fries and ketchup, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has it: Nearly 50 percent of vegetables and legumes available in the U.S. in 2013 were either tomatoes or potatoes.”
Why don’t taxpayers subsidize the foods that are better for us?
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“Read the farm bill, and a big problem jumps right out at you: Taxpayers heavily subsidize corn and soy, two crops that facilitate the meat and processed food we’re supposed to eat less of, and do almost nothing for the fruits and vegetables we’re supposed to eat more of.”
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I don't even understand the hate for vegetables. They taste great!
+MrSlyGamer I know right? Especially how kids say broccoli and brussels sprouts taste bad. The only bad thing about broccoli is that it can sometimes make you gassy.
+Taseen Khan I still hate brussels sprouts. Though I've never tried them raw...
Both have strong flavors though, so people with sensitive taste buds often don't enjoy them unless it happens to be a type of flavor they REALLY enjoy. It's why children often don't like them, since they have a full mouth of taste buds, where adults have many dead/inactive tastebuds from use over time.
+MrSlyGamer no they don't. ok they do, to some people, and they don't to some people.
+JLTGames That's why you cook them into things and don't cook them too much.
+Lily Taylor Brussles sprouts will ruin a dish for me, but that is how my sister used to get me to eat broccoli as a kid. Cover them in cheese sauce and I loved them. Now I'm happy to just steam and salt them. Or stir fry, I do love a good stir fry.
Point being...if American would eat more fresh vegetables, the demand will go up, supply will go down. Resulting into a higher price for farmers which will then switch to growing foods agian.
+Stormfox The point is vegetables cost more than processed foods and processed foods can be kept longer so they are bought more readily. My family owns a farm in America and I've seen the change from growing squash and zucchini to completely not growing any of it and switching to cotton and corn etc. We use to do tobacco but it is too risky for that anymore due to weather. While your statement is correct, it just isn't likely to happen unless we get a big green movement or something.
Cassy lochness monstah Well that is kind of wierd. Because in (most) European countries it is cheaper for customers to purchase fresh foods instead of processed.
Stormfox If you know what kind of seasonal veggies to buy it is cheaper. I think it's more of how fast vegetables run out and you can make more of the processed food in bulk cheaper. This is just my opinion, not a fact or anything.
+Stormfox; to then see the prize being normalized, and more and more farmers switching again.
+Stormfox That's one smart guy in a sea of idiots. Congratulations sir, you make me proud to be human.
My friend that live in USA was telling about their supermarkets. It's funny how natural and healthy stuff are more expensive than industrialized food. I think that is the problem. When pounds of candies are cheaper than pounds of fruits, something is wrong
The reason why so many people hate vegetables is because they haven't had well-cooked veggies before. Roasted brussels sprouts are great, especially with some garlic on them, but steamed ones are gross to me.
I feek you but at the same time i think that defeats the purpose a bit. I like green beans but then again we put seasoning salt on them, or on mashed potatoes we might put a bunch of butter on them. Basically what i saying is vegetables are good and you still get nutrients from them but you are still supposed to watch out for what toppings or how much toppings you put on them.
Feel* not feek lol. I hate youtube on mobile it doeant allow you to edit.
griimey Well I didn't really mean the toppings per-say, more of the way you cook them hahah.
Cooked broccoli and carrots are really good.
+Apparently I'm Geo I love to grind up carrots and put them in my spaghetti sauce, I usually use about 3+ regular-sized carrots.
As if the sauce in pizza is actually made out of tomatoes.
+Kennerfull It is, what are on about? What do you think it's made of? Corn?
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Go buy some vegetables your family needs them
***** Don't know where you live but if you don't live in europe chances are its MUCH LESS than 30% tomato, in the US, acording to the fda tomato pulp should have between 8% and 24% tomato, the other stuff is probably water, conservatives, corn starch, sugar and this kind of stuff.
Heinz Can't be called ketchup in israel: munchies.vice.com/articles/heinzs-ketchup-cant-be-called-ketchup-in-israel-anymore
FDA Regulation:
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@@SantaWithGuns Yes, a lot of corn syrup and red colorants.
@@0-Templar-0 I posted this 7 years ago, what do you want?
I eat a lot of mushrooms... Magic ones, there good still right?
If they make you see the walls melting you're doing it right.
+KhansVideos2641 Not since they're not veggies, but a fungus.
Botanically, they're actually the fruit of the mushroon mycellium but for the sake of simplicity, they're vegetables :).
Also, I don't see why normal people should class then as 'fungus' in terms of food since we don't really eat a lot of other fungi. Most fungi we eat are under the unbrella term 'mushroom'.
Kuya Dan They're still not considered as veggies. A Google search can help you. We just eat them because they're tasty and overall harmless.
+Kuya Dan LOL, stop trying to sound smart by googling shit.
This makes me feel so fortunate to have grown up with a mom who would always come home with a variety of fresh vegetables every week and would always cook healthy meals even though I would always complain. All this processed garbage kids live off of now was only bought as a treat once in a while. It's especially upsetting to see how downhill the school lunches have gotten. It's all in favor of these big businesses that make this low quality food.
lol the USA food system is not going to change because there are too many rich people/organisations with their hands in your governmental system.
Just look at the recent pressure on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines recieved with their upcoming recommended diet changes from the meat industry.
Sad thing is even though a person can educate themselves and look for advice from independent parties this system still effects the USA at a very basic level in schools cafeteria and in the education system.
+FrozenEternity meh. in FInland you literally can't eat anything in school cafeterias because even potatoes have some random carrots shoved in them.
Well here in Colorado were very organic. like in evey corner you go to youll see everything organic. even the chips are organic, i go into the chips aisle and i see no chips taken but when i enter the vegi aisle and organic aisle 90% of the people will be there.
believe it or not but Colorado is a very healthy state.
+Exde that is just weird
Littleandy08 I see a google search has Denver listed as one of the healiest USA cities in a Times article. My sister visits Boston every other year and apparently they are very health minded there too. So of course there are areas that don't fall into traps like "pizza is a vegetable". But I would think that the fact that official entities in a counties government are pushing (with some force) a money/power agenda that goes against what is best for its people should make the citizens of that country worry or at least question things.
+FrozenEternity I always blame the rich people too... Simple fact of the matter is, the non rich need to wake up and simply change!!!
Wow, that's kind of sad. I love vegetables, I eat around 2-4 cups of vegetables a day, even more if you want to count tofu.
0retty sure nobody but you eats tofu.
@@JaysonT1 Well that's an ignorant way of thinking. Tofu is a major ingredient in multiple Asian cuisines. Chinese and Japanese cuisines are some of the world's most popular cuisines and both consider Tofu a staple ingredient...
why dont you tell the truth, most of the land is ussed to grow animals.?
Lol grow animals do you mean kill animals
♥Angela♥ grow, kill and etc
+♥Angela♥ You have to grow them to kill them.
+Liene .Bērziņa 'most' dry land is NOT used to produce livestock. Most dry land is left fallow, un-used, not serving any purpose at all.
chigimonky not necessarily, baby boy chicks are grounded up alive and are never grown.
Love fruits and veggies, problem is that most in the grocery stores is grown for shipping, not eating.
This leads to a surplus of food that either tastes or looks horrible and makes people not want to eat them
They say if you have a yard big enough you should take advantage of the space and have your own mini farm. Obviously you wont store up enough vegetables for the year but at least for a month or two. It's 100% organic relatively cheap surprisingly just takes seeds, healthy soil, water and sunlight. Compost is great for healthy soil to.
when is the last time you saw an advertisement for fruits and vegetables during the super-bowl?
I like the sophisticated look you have going on in this video, Julia.
The sad truth is... eating the recommended daily amount isn't even enough. You should aim for double the amount (around 10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day) or more.
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If people really wanted vegetables they would buy them. The store would have to order more from the supplier. The supplier would increase its order with the farmers. Growing more of something you have established doesn't increase the cost much so it would become a bigger profit item.
I only eat some form of tomato in the form of marinara sauce, but I sometimes eat corn on the cob with salt, which tastes good.
For anyone out there willing to try, raw peas fresh from the pod are some of the most delicious things you will ever eat.
I like gourds(pumpkin, butternut and acorn squash), black beans, red and/or gold potatos, yams, collard greens, chick peas, and millet.
Brussels sprouts are good assuming they are not over-cooked. I personally have always been a fan of carrots (specifically raw) and broccoli
its bad in Canada too i live alone and when i eat stuff made from scratch gased on pasta and meat it cost me 80 to 140 dollars a month but when i eat only veggies it costs me 900 to 1500 dollars a month huge difference but the worst part is that a ton of those veggies end up spoilling while the meat and pasta stays good for a very long time in the fridge thats the biggest reasons so even if there was enough veggies people would not change because they simple cost too much and dont even last long to me something that spoils fast should be cheaper then the stuff that lasts long and yet its the opposite
I have a good recipe in my opinion for brussels sprouts clean cut in half dice onions salt pepper mix with olive oil to cover bake a little water on bottom of glass bake ware for close to 45 min. yum.
Don't grill me for saying this but we could grow a whole lot more if we didn't have to give all a proude to cattle as we feed 80% of corn to cattle and get less of what we put into them now if all that land was used to grow more vegetables and legumes it would be better for the environment and health but not the economy and people put money above all else which is sad
haha I paused the video to comment this and she basically said it all
That is so true! Have you watched "the cowspiracy"? It's basically all about that, and is a really great documentary. But it's so sad that so few people know how big a role agriculture (I don't know if it's written like that) plays in the environment and pollution, I didn't know before I watched the documentary.
Stella Juul Jensen yes that is great I have seen that another good one is earthlings
okay i'll try and watch that some time :)
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Depends on how I'm eating it but I like cucumbers, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, spinach, celery, and water chestnuts.
Also of course I love potatoes in pretty much all forms, so long as it's not raw anyway.
I love spinach & kale for smoothies, but to snack on I'm a fan of carrots or celery w/ pb!
If u live in the south California, Virginia, Texas,etc or usda zone 8-10 you can grow food all year long.
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Tomato purée is tomatoes that have been puréed. Why is this not count as a vegetable (fruit) serving?
Moreover, so few homes in America make their meals from scratch anymore. Some or most of the ingredients are processed in some way. And in most cases, both partners in a family need to have a job, so theirs too little time to put into a nutritious home cooked meal.
Somethings gotta give.
very true especially if you work an 11hr shift mon-sat plus half hour drive home.and still have to do the daily chores plus poop and shower
I don't believe this to be true... I live in a city with one of the highest house markets in the world ergo both parents work but I still grew up nutritiously and healthy with either parent cooking on any given night
+Heero yuy it could be a cultural thing as I live in Toronto and most people tend to eat healthy around here
They Should Make Healthy Restaurants
Sweet potatoes definitely! They're nutrient dense, filling and so sweet!!
I am disappointed in the fact that crops grown for ethanol production were not mentioned. Specifically, around *40%* of corn is grown for ethanol.
yall might want to mention just how much produce gets thrown out in america as well. And even how much is just left on the ground to rot because of a minor blemish.
I love brussel sprouts too, my whole family does, :)
My grandma lived to 99 and only vegetable I remember her eating was potatoes. She didn't eat fruits either. She did eat oatmeal almost every day, didn't smoke, or drink.
I personally love broccoli and spinach, and I love raw carrots, but I have to eat them cooked because they make me bloat and give me mild stomach aches when I eat them raw. I avoid raw tomatoes like the plague, because while I can tolerate raw carrots, raw tomatoes make my intestines bloat to the point of extreme pain. I don't know if it's a genuine allergy or intolerance. You guys have touched on allergies vs. intolerance before in some videos (like the gluten one) but can you explain why some vegetables like raw tomatoes make people like me sick? I'm assuming it's because of the acidity in the tomato and I've just never built a tolerance for it because I didn't grow up eating raw tomatoes.
The only vegetables I eat are potatoes and celery. They're the good shit.
Broccoli, celery, peas, carrots, green beans, red cabbage, probably some I'm forgetting lol. I don't eat a ton of veggies, but I LOVE the ones I do eat.
but, let's be honest, who doesn't love a baked potato now and then :P
We're wasting so much farm land on meat and dairy and growing crops to support the meat and dairy industry. Not sure why the US government keeps voting to subsidize the meat and dairy industries rather than fruit and vegetable farmers if they're literally putting out studies that say there aren't enough vegetables for everyone???
I like all vegies and most fruits I've tried. I can't eat a lot of them due to my Crohns Disease which goes haywire when I eat certain foods and I get sick until its out of my system. Fortunetly I found juicing them helps me digest them better.
Now nobody can say it.
how close are we to curing the allergy, i saw your video from 2013 is there any update on that . i have wasted nearly 5 years of my life to the allergy of house dust mite and these months are the worst . even allegra barely works these days i need the cure like ASAP
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Coming from experience in agriculture, this is a huge problem. The most nutritionally dense food are typically low yield and low profit compared to say commercial grains. Another HUGE issue is distribution; the simple fact is that processed foods are by-far easier to ship and store than fresh produce. A fresh tomato can only stay fresh for so long, while a can of tomato paste can be good for years. And if you don't live where a certain product is grown (or its winter!) it will have to be shipped in from somewhere they do grow, so that takes a lot of time out of the time you can use and sell it. In general, access to these kinds of good food is one of the main hindrances to total population health.
Also, why are you referring to tomatoes as a vegetable? It's a fruit. Just cause you can't put in fruit salad does make it a vegetable.
guys - may it possible to give not only imperial units‽ outside US we're using the metric system…
A bowl of frozen mixed vegetables/calforina blend + a tbs of butter + garlic = delious
great, but there are tons of fruits and veg at the grocery store not making it into people's baskets...
Ok has anyone ever seen the huge fresh fruit and vegetable section in a USA grocery store? Who is buying all that stuff if people don't like vegetables and fruits?
I buy that vegetable juice in a can. That shyt is good, for what it is lol. And I eat veggies too. My favorite, hmmmm. Well idk, I eat alot of spinach, sometimes cauliflower pizza, potatoes, popcorn lol, mixed veggies
Julia, those glasses look really beautiful on you!!
What ad did you get
I got a mcflurey ad lol
Growing up, I wasn't aloud to be picky. If there was something for dinner that I didn't like I got less of it, but I wasn't aloud to leave the table until I was finished with the food I didn't like. Most of the food I hated then is food that I enjoy eating now (like brussel sprouts, grits, tortellini, etc.). We never had excess amounts of soda in the house, I was told to drink juice and water before I was aloud to drink any soda. We had fruit and/or vegetables with nearly every meal. I don't understand how people have a problem with this.
+IgnemFeram01 Fucking allowed you got damn fucking nitwit.
Is something wrong?
I love carrots and they taste great with ranch dip. :)
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No you are all left.
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ಠ____ಠ that wasn't funny at all
It's not funny cause you misspelled the first line so the pun doesn't make sense
Ronaldo Ochoa I didn't spell anything wrong lol
We Indians grow small amounts of veggies in our homes in pots if we have little space and intrest. I want to know if this is possible in America also.
Maybe it's because a Big Mac with fries and soft drink is only $3.99 and a salad is $6.00. Now that is messed up.
I've never seen her wear glasses.. But on the subject to the video, we should all eat more veggies, I def. need too.
My favs are raw cabbage spinach and broccli but i eat them cooked sometimes
Not a vegan and not planning to be one, but I love my veggies, like you can give me any type of vegetables (brocoli, brussel sprouts, spinach, etc) in a bowl and I would eat them like chips.
Which then leads to vegetables being too expensive in stores. Plus how quickly they go bad.
homegrown is still the best way to go, its not even hard.
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+Vojoo´s Hut It's hard if you want a lot of different vegetables everyday
Patrick Gyde Askham depends on how much space you have, but ye you gotta start somewhere. and you dont need to be 100% self sufficient, just go for the good stuff and you will be better off than havig nothing
It is a bit cold where I live so in the winter even with my greenhouse nothing can grow
i live in germany so yeah i cant grow everything either, but for my strawberrys i use my old weed grow box xD
Just had 250 grams of haricot verts, salad, mash potatoe and schnitzel, delicious. But Im from the Netherlands, I eat different kinds of vegetables every day.
I actually do love brussel sprouts. They're little cabbages!
Good to know!
I saw a Big Mac commercial before this video... What even?
I've always liked vegetables, the only one I really avoid is beetroot, it's just to earthy and simultaneously sweet for me.
I actually really like veggies but she's right they are normally hard to find in my local groceries
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I love a good salad made with fresh spinach, edamame, black olives, broccoli, tomatoes, and portabello mushrooms.
My fav veggies are carrots, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, broccoli, squash, zucchini & sugar snap peas😋
What are veggies? Not sure if we have those in the UK.
does drinking fruit and vegetable drinks count as eating veggies?
Well I certainly do vegetables are AMAZING
I didn't know ppl in America survived on snacks. I regularly eat vegetables and snacks hardly a week...
Does +Hannah Hart know she is the head of your thumbnail?
I eat fruits and vegetables all the time I love them
There are a thing called non-reflective lenses available...
I don't think I've met a vegetable yet that I've actively disliked... I'm not crazy about some (lookin' at you, eggplant), but I'd still eat them. Not sure if I can name a favorite one. I do love green beans, cherry tomatoes, raw carrots, chickpeas, green peas, weird salads/lettuce types, and ginger and garlic as a base in dishes. AND MUSHROOMS (although I guess those don't technically count). But really, any kind of vegetable, either raw or cooked right, is delicious to me. I'm guilty of being lazy about varying my daily intake, though. :/
Kale tastes like spinach which has been washed with ammonia.
I'll eat pretty much any veggies, not a fan of squash or swede though (though when I was in South Africa I tried their local squash and it tasted completely different form what we have in the UK and I liked it). I also can't eat a lot of cruciferous veggies ordark leafy greens, for some reason they make me feel really miserable... honestly. But a couple of times a week usually is ok.
Also my sister hates parsnip, which was great for me as child, parsnip roasted with some parmesan, garlic, salt and black pepper is one of the most delicious things imo :) and I got to eat hers haha
2:44 why would you do that to an avocado? I'm hoping it's just water but even that is just wrong.
why is the tomato fruit being called a vegetable?
Asparagus ranks high for me, especially this time of year. Tomatoes, so much, between my husband and I we go though at least a half a dozen tomatoes a week. Onions and peppers can veggie-ise a lot of Mexican dishes. Veggies need to be more available at schools and in poor parts of cities, as Suburbs and even poor rural communities have some access to vegetables.
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I love vegetables overall, but my favorites are Brussels sprouts (YAY BRUSSELS SPROUTS ARMY) and zucchini
Roasted baby brussel sprouts are AMAZING.
Did anybody else notice the distraction caused by her glasses? what is that? a green screen?
'love your hair !
The way those glasses are reflecting the screens in front of you makes me think they aren't prescription. Are they?
obviously my favorite is broccoli. other faves are asparagus, roman lettuce and spinach.
Whoever makes a drug that tricks people into thinking that vegetables taste like fast food would deserve a nobel prize.
When mentioning that there are wheat, tomatoes, black olives, mushrooms etc etc in the pizza
It's a farce
weirdly now I much prefer mixed pizza those ones which have vegtables, fruit and cheese and of course meat. Not just cheese and meat.
Carrots and spinach are my favourite Veggies. I love tomato and avocado.
can see those awesome computer screens in that glare!
I recently watched the intern, a great movie. When i watched this video, I was thinking...doesn't Julia look a little alike Anne Hathaway.
Tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable
May I suggest that DNews invest in a polarizing filter, to help minimize the reflection from your presenters' glasses. It was rather distracting.
Wow! I could have had a V-8!
You should have touched a little... no, A LOT more on how our culture is a meat consuming culture. We think we need meat more than we do so the demand is space station high.
Potatoes don't towards your daily vegetable intake because of the starch content- at least not in Europe.