What constitutes a serving of a fruit or vegetable?
One serving of fruit is ½ cup or approximately the size of a tennis ball. Limit your intake of fruit juice, as the calories accumulate quickly and will not fill your stomach as the whole fruit would. One vegetable serving is ½ cup cooked or 1 cup raw. (Imaging what 1-cup of spinach looks like before and after you cook it to understand why the serving of raw is larger.) Each ½ cup of vegetable or tomato juice will count as a serving, but adds extra sodium to your diet.
