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Ranking vegetables by how "healthy" they are is ridiculous.

I'm not sure I agree completely since there probably is content in those vegetables which should be in like 99% of diets out there anyway. Viewed like that, seems reasonable to me to rank corn lower than aspergus, no? And if you're the 1% with an extremely specific diet you already know better than to trust random internet sources anyway.

That being said: the list still is pretty ridiculous in other ways. Like, why is vitamin X more important than vitamin Y etc, how do you balance that out, do all your measurements still count if you kept that aspergus out of the fridge for a week, etc. But the worst part: if you've ever read any proper scientific text, stuff like is loaded with minerals without specifying any quantity whatsoever, not even in respect to other items in the list, nor mentioning a source, should send you away screaming instantly (increases your energy levels is also a good candidate, makes me feel like I'm in an FPS). I get that some people don't care or even know how to interpret numbers so if you target that audience you obviously shouldn't litter the text with numbers but if you want to be taken somewhat seriously and for the sake of education at least give us something allowing further research. And if you don't care about being taken seriously then at least have the guts to mention that whatever you claim is just your personal interpretation and not really based on evidence.



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