Sentence examples for cups of fruit from inspiring English sources

Teenage girls should eat at least one and a half cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables each day, she said, and boys should eat two cups of fruit and three cups of vegetables daily.

"But a huge percentage of Americans can't afford the two cups of fruit a day recommended by the government".

An athletic 15-year-old boy needs about two and a half cups of fruit and four cups of vegetables a day.

"1,710 paper cups of fruit ice cream, 1,710 buzz cuts at a barbershop, 1,710 portions of generic vegetable salad at a cafeteria, 1,710 standard-strength light bulbs".

2,000 large (.5-litre) mugs of kvas, 2,000 regular postcards, 2,000 meat patties (kotlety) at a cafeteria, 2,000 small tins of vitamin C. 1,710 paper cups of fruit ice cream, 1,710 buzz cuts at a barbershop, 1,710 portions of generic vegetable salad at a cafeteria, 1,710 standard-strength light bulbs.

The recommendation is just 1.5-2 cups of fruit and two to three cups of vegetables per day, but failing to meet it can put people at risk of chronic diseases, the CDC said.

An athletic girl of the same age needs two cups of fruits and three cups of vegetables daily.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the additional number of cups of fruits and vegetables customers are getting.

It now recommends four and a half cups of fruits and vegetables (that's nine servings) for people who eat 2,000 calories a day.

They ate either their normal diet, but with varying amounts of salt, or a DASH diet, also with varying amounts of salt and including five cups of fruits and vegetables and three cups of low-fat dairy products per day.

But the guidelines' overwhelming specificity, proclaiming that the "average 2,000-calorie" diet should now include four and a half cups of fruits and vegetables a day, makes the diet more complicated than need be.