Eating a variety of fruit and vegetables will give you plenty of vitamins and minerals.

Fruit and vegetables are naturally high in folic acid, vitamin C and potassium.

Fruit and vegetables are also a good source of fibre and other substances, such as antioxidants.
All these nutrients are important for your health.

Fruit and vegetables are generally low fat, low calorie foods. Therefore eating fruit and vegetable
instead of foods that are high in fat and added sugars may help you keep yourself at a healthy weight.

Eating more fruit and vegetables may help reduce the risk of the two main killer diseases in this country - heart disease and some cancers.

For more information regarding 5 a day
please use the links below.

	department of health Department of Health U information on 5 a day.
	http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/ information in the UK about the benefits of eating more fruit and vegetables. For information in Spanish please use the links below.
	www.5aldia.es/ www.5aldia.com www.5aldia.org 5 a day information in Spanish. Informacion de 5 al dia en Espanol.
	www.5aldiacom.ar A wealth of Information in Spanish and other languages. It also has a database of all 5 a day sites in the world.