The Carotenoid Challenge
The top five American favorite fruits and vegetables are potatoes, bananas, iceberg lettuce, apples, and onions. Here's how much of these foods you'd need to eat to get a healthy amount of carotenoids such as alpha-, beta-, cis-beta-, gamma-, zeta-carotenes, lycopene, cis-lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, alpha- & beta-cryptoxanthin, violaxanthin, canthaxanthin,
capsanthin, and cryptocapsin:

Even good sources of many of these beneficial nutrients rarely supply all the members of this colorful phytonutrient family. To make sure you're getting them all, you'd still need to eat:

And you'd have to eat all this every day!
| How colorful is your diet? Check off any foods you ate yesterday: |
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If your score is anywhere below 9 servings per day, GNLD's Carotenoid Complex™ can help you bridge the gap between what you really should eat, and what you really do eat.
9 or more: Fantastic! Keep it up.
7-8: You are almost there, just add a few more servings every day.
5-6: Good work, but you need to make the effort to increase your intake.
3-4: Your intake is average, but not at a healthy level. To ensure your long-term health, now is the time to start following a healthy diet that is rich in carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables.
Less than 2: You need to modify your diet drastically and add carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables with every meal and snack. You are setting yourself up for possible health problems in the future if you continue to eat less than 2 servings per day. |
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