Just because you are chowing down on a large salad everyday for lunch, does not mean it is healthy or beneficial for your diet. Salad bar salads can be a good for you option, but only if you are salad bar savvy. Here are some salad bar strategies to ensure the salad you toss is diet-friendly.

Choose dark greens
Start your salad off right by going for a base of dark leafy greens, such as spinach or romaine leaves. One packed cup will give you more than half of the recommended daily value of vitamin A as well as nearly 100 percent for vitamin K. Leafy greens also supply vitamin C, folate and fiber. Lighter greens such as iceberg do not offer nearly the same nutritional value and are mostly made of water.

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