Salads yield that crunch of health, which scientists and medicine experts have been mulling for ages and by learning how to eat salads you can reap the maximum from nature’s treasure-trove. How to eat salads - juice it up for a healthy crunch

How to eat salads with pep?

Let us explore the different ways of eating salads.

Salads can be treated as a finger or a fork-food, left to one’s own choice.

•    First, you should help yourself to a pair of tongs before prdding into the salad bowl. Then make your pick from the bowl, with each pick daintily resting on your plate than looking clustered.

•    Once the salad finds its way to your plate,  a “fingering” with the fork can do the job, where you poke one bite/slice of the salad veggie or meat and simply slip in into your mouth.

•    The other alternative is simply eat it as a finger food one bite at a time. Having it as a finger food with dips to go with the salad can also make it a juicy treat.

•    Another creative way to eat salads is to look for extra-large petals (of edible flowers) or lettuce leaves, which will serve a wrap for your salad-bites. Just pick a leaf from the salad bowl and over it with a fork and a spoon place your salad veggies or meat pieces or whatever you want to include and wrap up from both ends, which “wrap it up” as an innovative way on how to eat salad.

•    As for your fruit salads they can be best eaten with a fruit-fork or a spoon to help you savor it best.

Different sides and dips for eatting salads

•    That beautifully dressed salad in vibrant colors can be sauced up with dips such as salsa(for a veggie or meat-based salad).

•    Plain veggie salad which is mild on the dressing can have yoghurt for a dip and for Greek salads, tzatziki is good for a dip.

•    Guacamoles gel well with Mexican-make salads.

•    Try pita-salad tower, using pita chips as your base. Spoon out the salad and place it on top of a pita chip, top it up with extra cheese and fresh mint leaves, and take a bite, which would crack and crunch with the pita and salad rolled with great fervor with your tongue. In place of fresh herbs you could also use nuts, or seeds.

•    Even a salad sandwich is something to munch upon with salad  ingredients sandwiched between slices of plain bread.

Eating salad with the extra crunch

How to eat salads with that extra crunch, for an added dose of health? A few tips:

•    Walnuts, almonds, or pistachios can be added to salads (veggie and fruit), to ‘sow an extra seed of health’. Fruit salads can also enjoy the company of these nuts along with raisins and cashews, which will do wonders to the flavor.

•    Sunflower seeds are healthy sprinklers for your salad. So, sprinkling a handful of sunflower seeds at the time of eating the salad can add  to that ‘crunchy’ factor.

Garnishes for a topping way to eat salads

•    Fruit salads in a drizzle of honey can make a delightful dessert.

•    Herbs such as parsley or mint leaves can also be used for garnishes.

•    Edible flowers and different colored peppers can also be used to give your salad a colorful display.

•    Feta cheese, blue cheese or Parmesan cheese can be used as crumbs or in the grated form or as cubes for your salad.

•    Fruit salads can also be mixed in low-fat cream for a filling treat.

The different answers on how to eat salads can be derived from the different ways they are made. So make yours the healthful way to get nutrition on a platter!

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