When the days are slightly cooler, you want a meal that is warm, filling, and comforting. This kale soup is exactly the recipe you’ve been craving, whether you know it or not. It is a light broth that contains nutritionally dense ingredients and aromatic spices, such as thyme and rosemary. The squeeze of lemon gives this hearty soup a delicately bright finish that makes each spoonful better than the last. So if you are looking for a dish that is equal parts healthy, delicious, and cozy, this soup is it!

When it comes to making a great vegetable soup, it’s all about layering flavors. First and foremost, you have to sauté the aromatics. Cooking the onion, carrots, celery, and garlic with the rosemary, thyme, salt, and pepper helps to give somewhat of a caramelized flavor. You don’t want to cook them fully; rather, you just want to par-cook them until they are nice and fragrant. You’ll add the beans and broth to the same pot and then bring to a boil before reducing to a low simmer. Only add the kale in the last few minutes of cooking, or else it will get too soft. You want the kale to retain some texture when you spoon the soup into bowls. The same goes for the lemon juice, because you want the soup to retain that tang when you slurp it up.

When it comes to kale, you can choose the variety you enjoy best. You can opt for green curly kale, Tuscan kale, lacinato kale, or even dinosaur kale. Don’t have kale on hand or can’t find it in the grocery store? You can swap it for another sturdy green, such as Swiss chard or collard greens. Just make sure to taste and season the soup as you go. Some of you may prefer more lemon juice, while others want to add more black pepper or rosemary. Feel free to experiment with flavors, even though this recipe is solid as a rock!

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While you are using one of our many cleanses, you have to avoid certain foods, including rice paper wraps. Those rice paper wraps can be tricky to use, as they tend to stick to themselves or tear easily. Allow us to remove them from the equation and replace them with sturdy, raw collard greens for this recipe. Roll up the different vegetables as tight as you can and then dip the wraps in the highly addictive almond butter sauce. Not only are these wraps backed to the gills with nutrients, but they are also bursting with flavor. Trust us when we tell you that dipping sauce is life!

As a quick note, you can use rainbow chard or Swiss chard if you cannot find raw collard greens. If you prefer the taste of chard to collards, go with chard instead. Both greens serve as great wraps that hold up nicely with all of the ingredients inside. Additionally, if you want sauce in every bite and don’t want to dip the wraps, pour some of the dipping sauce on the ingredients in the wraps before rolling them up. Speaking of the filling ingredients, you can swap those out with others that you prefer. Do you prefer carrots instead of red bell peppers? Swap them out!

Once you have all of your ingredients prepped, make sure to lay them out on a work station so they are easily accessible when you roll up the greens. Additionally, remove the ends of the thicker stems from the greens, as those stems are fibrous and bitter. You can open the leaves and roll up the ingredients like a burrito, or you can fold the leaves in half, line up the ingredients, and roll them up that way. Roll as you please, but make sure that you do one thing: Enjoy the meal!

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Imagine a bed of crunchy, spring mixed greens, hearty broccoli, and shallots tossed in a velvety avocado pesto dressing. You want to know the good news? You no longer have to imagine that beautiful bowl of goodness because you can make it! This salad is like a refreshing breeze that cools you down on a hot summer day. The flavors soothe your taste buds and the ingredients do wonders for your overall health.

Like most salads, this salad contains a bed of greens with some cucumbers thrown in the mix. The spring mix provides unique textures and flavors to this salad. Spring mixes differ depending on seasonal availability, but they usually contain red leaf lettuce, spinach, baby chard, mizuna, or arugula.Unlike most salads, this recipe calls for some chopped raw broccoli florets. Raw broccoli provides another textural component, but make sure to chop up the broccoli into small pieces. You don’t want giant florets because that won’t be an enjoyable eating experience. The thin apple slices also provide a sweet flavor and crunchy texture!

That last, and potentially most integral component to this recipe, is the avocado pesto dressing. Normally, you’d put a sauce like this on zucchini noodles, not a spring mix salad. That changes today, people! We are breaking the rules and making a pesto a salad dressing. Quite honestly, it’s one of the best culinary decisions we’ve ever done! Let us know how you like it in the comments below.

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What does vitamin E do and are there vegan sources of this fat-soluble vitamin? Yes and yes. Vitamin E comes in several forms, but alpha-tocopherol is the only one used by the human body. The primary role of vitamin E is to act as an antioxidant, fighting free radicals that can damage cells. It also works to optimize immune function and prevent clots from forming in heart arteries.

What Is Vitamin E? 

Antioxidant vitamins, such as vitamin E, became known to the public in the 1980s, when scientists started to understand that free radical damage was a part of the early stages of atherosclerosis. Free radical damage may also contribute to cancer, vision loss, and many other chronic health conditions. Vitamin E works to protect cells from these damaging free radicals, while simultaneously reducing the body’s production of free radicals in certain situations. There is conflicting evidence, however, on whether or not high doses of vitamin E can actually prevent chronic diseases.

Recommended Amounts

According to research, the recommended daily intake (RDI) for vitamin E for males and females  ages 14 years and older is 15 milligrams (mg) per day. If monitoring vitamin E intake in international units (iu), consume 22 iu per day, and that goes for pregnant women as well. Lactating women need a little more at 19 mg, or 28 iu per day. The following recommendations for vitamin E intake are for people under the age of 14: 

• 0-6 months: 4 mg per day
• 7-12 months: 5 mg per day
• 1-3 years: 6 mg per day
• 4-8 years: 7 mg per day
• 9-13 years: 11 mg per day

Vegan Sources Of Vitamin E

Vitamin E exists in a lot of plant-based foods, including oils, nuts and seeds (including nut and seed butters), fruits, and vegetables. The following foods are considered the top 10 vegan sources of vitamin E. We will list their serving sizes with the amount of vitamin E in mg for your knowledge.

• Almonds: 7.4 mg of vitamin E per 1/4 cup
• Sunflower seeds: 6.9 mg of vitamin E per 1/4 cup
• Spinach: 4.6 mg of vitamin E per one cup of cooked spinach
• Hazelnuts: 4.3 mg of vitamin E per 1/4 cup
• Swiss chard: 4 mg of vitamin E per one cup of cooked chard
• Turnip greens: 3.7 mg of vitamin E per one cup of cooked greens
• Mustard greens: 3.3 mg of vitamin E per one cup of cooked greens
• Kiwi: 2.5 mg of vitamin E per 1 medium fruit
• Broccoli: 2.2 mg of vitamin E per one cup of cooked broccoli
• Mango: 2 mg of vitamin E per one medium fruit

Signs of Vitamin E Deficiency 

Vitamin E is found in many vegan and non-vegan foods, in addition to various supplements. That makes the vitamin E deficiency rate in the United States very low, even rare. That said, people with digestive disorders, or those who cannot properly absorb fat, can develop a vitamin E deficiency. If you cannot absorb fat, you may have cystic fibrosis, pancreatitis, celiac disease, or other similar disease. The common signs of a vitamin E deficiency include:

• Peripheral neuropathy (damage to the peripheral nerves, usually in the hands or feet, which can cause weakness or pain)
• Decreased immune function
• Retinopathy (damage to the retina, which can impair vision)
• Ataxia (loss of control of body movements)

Conclusion

Vitamin E is an integral nutrient for preventing oxidative damage and maintaining overall health. Because there are many food sources and supplements, you should not have a problem eating the RDI of vitamin E per day, no matter what diet you follow. Fresh is always best, so include a variety of nuts, seeds, leafy greens, and other fruits and vegetables in your diet to meet your vitamin E needs.

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Baby red chard leaves are little delicate leaves that look very similar to beet greens. They are actually in the same family, with baby chard leaves being extremely delicate. When chard leaves fully develop, their taste becomes slightly bitter, which is why baby leaves are better for salads. In fact, you may notice that baby chard leaves have an inherent sweetness that is quite palatable.

Chard is a known nutritional powerhouse that contains a variety of nutrients, including beta-carotene, zinc, calcium, manganese, and vitamins C, E, and K. It also contains betalain, which supports the body’s natural detoxification processes. Betalain is not heat-stable, which means that you lose out on this beneficial plant pigment if you cook chard. Fortunately, this salad requires no cooking!

In addition to the baby chard leaves, this salad includes fresh basil and parsley, which add a lovely fragrance and herbaceous flavor. You can absolutely leave the salad as is with the baby chard and herbs, or you can add diced tomatoes and diced cucumbers. The decision is yours to make. Choose your own adventure and enjoy this salad!

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We aren’t trying to steal the attention away from tacos, because they are the social food that turns any frown into a smile. But what about burritos? Don’t they deserve love, too? They are just rolled up and enlarged tacos, right? Think of burritos however you like; we are going to get on with making the recipe.

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The eggplant may not be on the top of everyone’s grocery list, but this purple vegetable is one of the most versatile ingredients you’ll ever cook with. They can be grilled, roasted, sautéed, pureed, or fried. The eggplant is a beautiful vegetable and we hope you like it in this sandwich.

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The crisp textures and sweet and sour flavors make this incredibly colorful salad a perfect way to get a wide variety of antioxidants. Always remember that it is integral to eat a variety of colors to absorb essential nutrients!

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Basil leaves do not own a monopoly on pesto. Pesto can be made with a variety of different greens, chard being one of them. Make sure you remove the thick stems before blending the pesto ingredients together.

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