June 17, 2026
National Eat Your Vegetables Day
National Eat Your Vegetables Day: vegetables, healthy eating, and food facts that surprise you.
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Calorogus Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme
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is National Eat Your Vegetable's Day Vegetables, healthy eating and
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food facts that surprise you. Question one, Which familiar vegetable
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on your antipasto platter is actually the unopened flower bud
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of a thistle plant harvested before it blooms. Question two.
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Athletes sometimes drink a deep red juice to help lower
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blood pressure and support endurance. Which vegetable is prized for
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its high natural nitrate content that the body converts into
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nitric oxide? Question three. In a famous eighteen ninety three
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US Supreme Court case about import tariffs, which plant was
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legally declared a vegetable even though botanically it's a fruit
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because of how it's used in meals. Four. If you
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want to outdo an orange on vitamin C, which colorful
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salad staple should you reach for that routinely delivers more
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vitamin C per serving? Question five. When you chop or
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chwo broccoli, an enzyme reaction kicks in to form a
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health promoting compound often linked to the body's detox pathways.
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What is this compound called? We'll be right back with
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these answers after this break welcome back. Question one, which
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vegetable is an unopened thistle flower bud? Answer the glowbartichoke.
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The glowbar to choke is the immature flower head of
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a thistle scenari cardunculus. We eat the tender base of
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the bracts and the heart. If left to bloom, it
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becomes a striking purple thistle flower. Question two, which nitrate
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rich veggie is popular in athlete juices? Answer beetroot beats.
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Beets are packed with dietary nitrates that can be converted
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into nitric oxide, helping blood vessels relax and improving blood flow.
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Studies have linked beat juice to modest reductions in blood
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pressure and enhanced exercise performance. Question three. Which fruit was
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legally ruled a vegetable in eighteen ninety three? Answer the tomato.
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In Nix v. Headen eighteen ninety three, the court decided
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that tomatoes are vegetables for tariff purposes since they're commonly
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eaten with dinner rather than dessert. Botanically, tomatoes are fruits
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because they develop from a flour and contain seeds. Question four,
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which veggie often beats oranges? In vitamin C answer red
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bell pepper. Red bell peppers can provide around one hundred
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and fifty milligrams of vitamin C per medium pepper, often
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more than an orange. They also offer carotenoids like beta carotene,
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especially as the pepper matures from green to red. Question five,
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What compound forms in chopped broccoli? Answer? Sulforaphane. Sulforofhane forms
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when the enzyme nerosinous acts on glucorofhanin in cruciferous vegetables
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like broccoli. Lightly steaming preserves this enzyme activity better than
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over cooking, helping maximize sulporophane formation. That concludes today's five
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daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were
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crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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