National Eat Your Vegetables Day

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is National Eat Your Vegetable's Day Vegetables, healthy eating and food facts that surprise you. Question one, Which familiar vegetable on your antipasto platter is actually the unopened flower bud of a thistle plant harvested before it blooms. Question two. Athletes sometimes drink a deep red juice to help lower blood pressure and support endurance. Which vegetable is prized for its high natural nitrate content that the body converts into nitric oxide? Question three. In a famous eighteen ninety three US Supreme Court case about import tariffs, which plant was legally declared a vegetable even though botanically it's a fruit because of how it's used in meals. Four. If you want to outdo an orange on vitamin C, which colorful salad staple should you reach for that routinely delivers more vitamin C per serving? Question five. When you chop or chwo broccoli, an enzyme reaction kicks in to form a health promoting compound often linked to the body's detox pathways.

1:23 What is this compound called? We'll be right back with these answers after this break welcome back. Question one, which vegetable is an unopened thistle flower bud? Answer the glowbartichoke. The glowbar to choke is the immature flower head of a thistle scenari cardunculus. We eat the tender base of the bracts and the heart. If left to bloom, it becomes a striking purple thistle flower. Question two, which nitrate rich veggie is popular in athlete juices? Answer beetroot beats. Beets are packed with dietary nitrates that can be converted into nitric oxide, helping blood vessels relax and improving blood flow.

2:08 Studies have linked beat juice to modest reductions in blood pressure and enhanced exercise performance. Question three. Which fruit was legally ruled a vegetable in eighteen ninety three? Answer the tomato. In Nix v. Headen eighteen ninety three, the court decided that tomatoes are vegetables for tariff purposes since they're commonly eaten with dinner rather than dessert. Botanically, tomatoes are fruits because they develop from a flour and contain seeds. Question four, which veggie often beats oranges? In vitamin C answer red bell pepper. Red bell peppers can provide around one hundred and fifty milligrams of vitamin C per medium pepper, often more than an orange. They also offer carotenoids like beta carotene, especially as the pepper matures from green to red. Question five, What compound forms in chopped broccoli? Answer? Sulforaphane. Sulforofhane forms when the enzyme nerosinous acts on glucorofhanin in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli. Lightly steaming preserves this enzyme activity better than over cooking, helping maximize sulporophane formation. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.