9 Nutritious Salad Toppers From Your Pantry Shelf

If you love making salad from the wide assortment of fresh garden vegetables available in the summer months, your wait is almost over. But while you wait, there are many ways to add variety to your plated greens. Just turn to the jars and cans of pickled and marinated vegetables on your pantry shelf. They can offer an endless array of tastes, textures, nutrients and eye-appeal to your meals until that first rosey radish is plucked from the ground.

By: Robyn Flipse, The Everyday Dietitian

April 23, 2012

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Vegetables in jars and cans from pantry shelf add nutritional value to salad

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9 Nutritious Ways to Make a Healthy Salad: Olives

Sold in different sizes ripe, cured, stuffed, spiced, and sliced; in single or mixed varieties; pitted or not

Calories: 5 each for medium size, 75 per 1/2 cup sliced or chopped

Key Vitamins: E, A

Key Minerals: calcium, iron, zinc

Other Nutrients: oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat, needed to form cell membranes

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