How much is considered one serving of fruits and vegetables?

Answer 1

Eating at least 5 servings of vegetables and fruits each day may not be that hard to do when when you look at how small one serving really is:
1/2 cup of fruit
1 medium piece of fruit
1/4 cup of dried fruit
3/4 cup (6 ounces) of 100% fruit or vegetable juice
1 cup of leafy vegetables
1/2 cup of cooked or raw vegetables
Trying to visualize the serving sizes? This may help:
1 medium apple or orange: the size of a tennis ball
1 cup vegetables or fruit: the size of a baseball
1 medium potato: the size of a computer mouse
1 cup of lettuce: 4 leaves

Answer 2

Honestly, I eat so far as fruit, the whole thing (apples, oranges, small melons, papaya, avocadoes, guava, mango) and with stuff like berries, I tend to eat a half pint (dry) at one sitting.

With salads, I can eat a whole bag or clear tub. Stuff like carrots, squash, turnip roots...I'd say I consider a serving like a 1/2 lb raw or cooked.

I eat more vegetables and fruit that all of the vegetarians I know. Go figure. And I'm in better shape and just plain look sexier.

Answer 3

Usually it's 1/2 cup, densely packed, without a lot of gaps for air, and without rind or pit or whatever other parts you don't eat. For fruit you eat from the hand, one small anything (apple, orange, pear, banana) is about 1 1/2 servings.

Answer 4

Take those little baby tupaware that people put like apple sauce in for their kids lunches and thats a serving size

Answer 5

I medium fruit or veggie or 1 cup of fruit or veggies.

Answer 6

A cup.