The Home Food Garden

What to Grow – Nutritional Data

John

You can use nutritional data to help you decide what to grow in your home food garden.  My wife is on three special diets and coordinating the three can be difficult.  Home grown foods lack the sodium input and are much cheaper to grow than to buy.  She also has to watch sugar and vitamin K intake.  A big reason to grow your own food is to eliminate the additives that are found in grocery store foods.  I have found a very useful website for nutritional data. It is www.nutritiondata.com.  There is also a blog associated with the site that can be accessed from the site.  If you prefer to use the glycemic index instead of glycemic load, check out www.glycemicindex.com to find the relative effects of a wide variety of food carbohydrates. 

John