What is Nutrient Dense Food?
Let’s start by defining a couple of important terms. The first is nutrient dense foods. What are these? They’re probably just what you think they are! Those foods that contain lots of nutritional value for their portion size. In other words, these foods provide lots of vitamins and minerals and other important nutrients for the calories. An example of a nutrient dense food is carrots. A half of cup of carrots provides more vitamin a than you need all day long, and all for only 21 calories. That is a nutrient dense food. In other words lots of nutritional value for the number of calories. But, lets stop for a minute and take a look at our second term, what we call calorie dense foods. These are foods that contain lots of calories for the number of nutrients. Like a chocolate candy bar. One chocolate candy bar has about 260 calories and practically no nutritional value, other than the calories themselves. So it’s getting pretty obvious huh! Our goal is to start eating more of nutrient de
