What's a serve?

Australian adults are supposed to eat five serves of vegetable and 2 fruit a day for good health. You knew that right?

But do you know what a serve of vegetables actually looks like? There's a good chance that you don't because as you know vegetables come in all shapes and sizes and the standard 75 g serve is pretty difficult to gauge without a set of scales at hand.

The national average for fruit and veg consumption is appalling with only 10 % of women and 4 % of men currently meeting the national dietary vegetable intake requirements. With fruit we're doing a little better: Currently 55% of women and 44 % men are eating the recommended 2 serves a day.

At this point it's worth noting that although 5 serves of vegetables is the recommended daily requirement many health experts suggest we eat more than five serves a day for optimal health which if we're honest, is pretty hard to do.

What is a serve?

A standard serve of fruit weighs 150 g and is the equivalent to (on average) a medium sized apple, orange, pear, and banana. For larger fruits such as pineapple a...

Orange and Almond Semolina Cake

Although we haven't tested it, a discussion with some of the GI experts at Sydney Uni confirmed my thoughts: this cake should have a low GI. It's great for anyone managing high blood sugar levels and it's delicious. With a raft of very healthy ingredients it holds as much treat factor appeal as other less healthy cakes around. You'll love it.

Semolina

Semolina is the endosperm or heart of the durum wheat kernel- a hard wheat variety with a high protein to carbohydrate ratio and a high gluten content. Durum wheat is more coarsely ground than other flours. It is mainly used for producing pasta and couscous, which is why semolina is often listed as the main ingredient.

Wetherill Park is Tony Trim's very first store and is now head office to his business which has 7 fresh produce stores bearing the Trims Fresh name. Tony a fruiterer for over 27 years was born on the farm and literally learnt the industry from the ground up.

In Tony's language nothing is unachievable for the customer - in price, quality or product . If it's available, give him 24 hours.

His Wetherill store has everything you can imagine from the best quality fruit and veggies, continental groceries, deli items, and extremely friendly service.

Tony's motto is : If you're happy tell your friends. If not, please come back and tell us and we'll fix it.

Manageress Edna, was voted as giving the best customer service throughout the whole shopping centre. Great work Edna.