You will need to eat several servings of fruits and vegetables each day to stay on track with your Belly Fat Diet plan and achieve your weight loss goals. But what exactly is a serving? The following table shows you just how much of a certain vegetable or certain fruit is considered one serving. This information can help you see whether you’re eating too little, too much, or just enough.
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Food | Size of a Serving |
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Cooked vegetables | 1/2 cup |
Raw vegetables | 1 cup |
100% vegetable juice | 6 ounces |
Whole fruit (apples, oranges, pears, peaches, and so on) | 1 medium piece (size of a baseball) |
Bananas | Half of a medium banana |
Berries, melons, grapes | 1 cup |
Canned fruit in juice | 1/2 cup |
No-sugar-added dried fruit | 1/4 cup |
100% fruit juice | 1/2 cup |