Salad Dressings May Improve Nutrient Uptake

The vegetables in salads are chock-full of important vitamins and nutrients, but you won't get much benefit without the right type and amount of salad dressing, a Purdue University study shows.
In a human trial, researchers fed subjects salads topped off with saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat-based dressings and tested their blood for absorption of fat-soluble carotenoids - compounds such as lutein, lycopene, beta-carotene and zeaxanthin. Those carotenoids are associated with

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