Does these count towards your 5(10) a day?

[MrsWho]

Coleslaw

Pickled oniions

sweet potato

fruit that has been blended into juice (rather than sqeezed and pulp discarded)

TIA

no
no
no
juice is counted but only once no matter how much you drink

You can count 1 glass of fruit juice per day and sweet potatoes definitely also count. Not sure about coleslaw & pickled onions though.

fruit that you have blended yourself definitely counts. So if you blend a banana, peach and plum and drink all of it that counts as 3 as that's the same as eating the three of them

Coleslaw, yes

onions I would think so

sweet potato no, not officially, although I believe it is very good for you so eat it anyway

blended fruit counts but fruit eaten unprocessed is better

So why aren't the others considered furball?

I'm sure home-made coleslaw would count.

Sweet potato does doesn't it? It's packed full of vit c, I know that much.

not if you eat everything that you have blended yourself with nothing added it's not

sweet potatoes is very fibrous and has a very low gi.

here's a link showing that sweet potatoes (yams) don't officially count

they are v healthy though IMO

RE my JUice- I have started adding a couple of handfuls of raspberries to my orange juice then blending together, so does it count as one (1 pint of O+R J) or 2 (raspberries+OJ)

If I had them separately it would be 2 wouldn't it.

How can coleslaw not count? (obviously depending on the amount)

I make my own and it's simply leek/white cabbage/carrot herbs and mayo combined - it's all veg right?

mrswho - that is 2

Josie3 - that would count.

orange sweet pots aren't yams though so i should think do count. white ones are different entirely.

We had an argument (well a discussion) about sweet potatoes on the 10 / 10 thread

I was confused then and still am now but what I took away from it was that sweet potatoes are very good for you to eat, however they may not count officially towards your 5 / 10

I remember looking them up and everything

I would be pleased to hear I was wrong and sweet potatoes are in fact vindicated

They are full of betacarotene and soluble fibre - like carrots - so I see no reason they shouldn't count, other than the obvious semantic issue of them being "potatoes".

found proof here

here is a site saying onions do count but sweet potatoes don't. homemade coleslaw does count but I imagined some sloppy shop bought stuff which is why I said no.

I don't think that list is exhaustive, furball, just some examples

good work on the sweet potato front Mum2 - where were you when I needed you in the Great Yam Wars of 2006?

The Food Standards Agency also say sweet potato count towards the 5 a day:

'Sweet potatoes and other root vegetables all count towards our daily fruit and veg portions because they're usually eaten as well as a starchy food'.

Get back to your roots

So sweet potatos are a yes then?

i would vote yes for all of them.