Guide to Salads & Dressings

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Have you had your salad with dressing today?

Salads just aren’t salads without a little dressing!

Having a salad with your meal, or as a meal, can be a healthy choice, but you need to be careful how you dress it. A salad dressing can make a salad more appetizing and encourage or increase your veggie intake.

Buying salad dressing at the store is unusually expensive, especially considering you can make better at home. You don’t have to just settle for oil and vinegar. This simple guide shows you how to make any salad dressing, from ingredients you have lying around, or from ones you’d love to use.

Salads composed from even a few ingredients make a nutrient-rich meal. The greens alone have calcium, iron, potassium and B vitamins. Many salad basics, including tomatoes, sweet peppers and the greens, are chock-full of antioxidants. Add high fiber and low calories into the mix and you can't go wrong including a salad in your daily diet.

A fresh salad with the right dressing becomes a light, tasty and healthy accompaniment to a meal. However, take a look down the supermarket aisle and you'll find a vast variety of dressings – boasting traditional recipes, fat-free alternatives, and seasonal flavor sensations.

What’s a dressing? Dressings are a way to add flavor and texture, which also keeps the salad components together. Typically, wet ingredients are combined (a.k.a. emulsified) with some type of oil and an acid with additional flavorings.

Traditionally salad dressings come in several textures and thicknesses from thick and creamy (i.e. ranch) to light weight vinaigrettes (i.e. Italian).
Choosing the best dressing (in terms of best quality ingredients), can either make or break a healthy salad.

Making one simple change to your diet – adding a salad almost every day – can pay off with plenty of health benefits.

Not only that, but salads are cool, crunchy, and fun to eat (lots of textures, colors, and flavors). Most people enjoy eating salads - even kids!

To your good health!