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9 Ways to Boost Your Health with Leafy Greens

9 Ways to Boost Your Health with Leafy Greens

Updated 7 September 2017 11:18 AM

Learn how you can eat more leafy green vegetables to boost your health and wellbeing.


  1. Integrate leafy greens such as kale and spinach into your smoothies and juices. 
  2. Increase your salad intake and ensure you try a range of leafy greens, not just lettuce. 
  3. Use leafy greens in your pesto.
  4. Add leafy greens to your soup, or make an entirely ‘green’ soup.
  5. Include leafy greens in your stir-fries.
  6. Include leafy greens in your sandwiches and wraps.
  7. Add leafy greens to your curries.
  8. Make kale chips by sprinkling them in salt, lemon juice and oil and then cooking them in the oven for 25 minutes at 300 degrees.
  9. Add leafy greens to your casseroles
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Science Notes
Leafy greens are packed with an abundance of vitamins, fibre and minerals, all of which can help guard against heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other illnesses. Each individual green provides its own nutritional benefits, here are some of our favourites and the health-boosting advantages they offer:

Kale – Vitamin A, C and K, calcium, folate, potassium, iron
Spinach – Vitamin A, C and K, folate, calcium, iron, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids
Broccoli – Vitamin A and C, folate, potassium
Cabbage – Vitamin C and K

Related Tip
Make a green smoothie or juice every morning. Start by adding 250 ml of filtered water or organic apple juice to a blender and add three pieces of fruit such as banana, orange or apple. Add 2 cups of kale and/or spinach and blend for 30 seconds or until smooth and creamy.>

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