Healthy Fruit and Vegetables

In this day and age, with many people working 40+ hour weeks and running a household too, sometimes it can be difficult to find the time to keep a balanced diet. Often you’ll arrive home late, the kids will be hungry and the temptation will be there to order out rather than cooking something that might be more healthy. It is a well-known fact that fruit and vegetables are healthy and benefit us significantly if they are a part of a regular diet, but how exactly do they help us?

Vitamins are one of the main benefits you will get out of eating fruit. It contains huge amounts of our necessary daily vitamins, minerals and nutrients, which are hard to find in other foods. But it’s important to remember that variety is the spice of life when it comes to having a balanced diet. Making sure that you have a small portion of different fruit is a great alternative to a sugary dessert, and allows you to top up on all of your daily recommended allowances for vitamins and minerals. Let’s take a look at two of the healthiest fruits that should be a big part of your diet.

 As well as containing high levels of vitamin C, apples also contain an important fibre called pectin. This fibre helps relieve the symptoms of indigestion, rheumatism and even hangovers! And with a daily dose of two apples per day, you can reduce your cholesterol by up to 10%, making them a great on-the-go food, at home or at work.

Avocados are our next great food when it comes to helping you on your way to a healthy diet. As an excellent source of vitamin E, avocado helps lower your body’s bad cholesterol, also known as LDLs. Not only is it one of the tastiest super foods out there, but you can also add it to just about any meal! They’re great in salads, tortilla wraps, side dishes and also with meat. An interesting fact about avocado is that just half of a regular avocado counts as one portion of your five fruit and vegetables a day.

So along with your regular exercise, the addition of a few extra pieces of fruit and vegetables to your diet can help in cutting down the chances of high cholesterol and heart disease. Having a healthy, balanced diet will help prolong your life, have you feeling healthier and looking your best!

Our Wooden Fruit Crates Are Now Available For Purchase!

At The Market Runners, we are committed to supplying our customers with the freshest organic produce straight from the farms of Australian producers. We deliver everything from fruit, vegetables and dairy to bread and other baked goods, eggs and flowers. Deliveries are made weekly and your scheduled delivery day depends on where in Melbourne you are located. Best of all, the process of ordering is simple and straightforward!

Your convenience is very important to us; we aim to provide a service that ultimately saves you time that you would otherwise spend in the supermarket. All you have to do is log onto our easy-to-use website, pick out the products you want and collect them from your doorstep! If you are not pleased with the level of service or our products, we want to know about it. We value all the feedback we receive from all our customers and we’re more than happy to offer a refund if you aren’t completely satisfied.

Another important aspect of The Market Runners is that we are strong believers in doing everything we possibly can to support the environment and animal well being. Our vegetables and fruit are sourced from producers that use environmentally friendly methods of production and refrain from using pesticides and other potentially harmful chemicals. And the eggs that we sell come from free range farms, rather than factories with caged battery hens.

The Market Runners also aim to use reusable materials in our deliveries. Our milk comes delivered in glass bottles and instead of using plastic bags; our produce is brought to you in rustic wooden crates, which we then come to collect and reuse later. Further, after many requests from customers, you are now able purchase wooden fruit crates from The Market Runners to use as a fruit or vegetable basket. They start from $28.00 and can really add to the rustic, vintage feeling of your home.

Browse The Market Runners website for more information about our services and check out our wooden fruit crates. Alternatively, feel free to give our office a call on 1300 364 518!