Eating more fruits and vegetables for 3 months makes the level of alpha-carotene—a plant nutrient—in the blood go up by 50% in people who didn’t eat much before.

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Effect of increasing fruit and vegetable intake by dietary intervention on nutritional biomarkers and attitudes to dietary change: a randomised trial

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People who ate more fruits and veggies for 12 weeks saw their α-carotene levels jump by 50%, which means their bodies absorbed more of this healthy compound from the food they ate.

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Effect of increasing fruit and vegetable intake by dietary intervention on nutritional biomarkers and attitudes to dietary change: a randomised trial

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DOI: 10.1007/s00394-017-1469-0

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