{"id":1141,"date":"2017-04-03T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:11:02","slug":"asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/asparagus\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do with Asparagus &#8211; Real Food Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, asparagus has always felt like a more &#8220;fancy&#8221; vegetable since we mainly ate it on special occasions when I was growing up. Maybe because it wasn&#8217;t as widely available or because it was a more expensive vegetable in Sweden at the time. So even though I eat more asparagus now than in my childhood, it still makes me feel that the dinner becomes extra fancy for some reason. Asparagus looks kind of fancy too, I think! Both elegant and simple at the same time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here are some quick facts about asparagus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High in folic acid.<\/li>\n<li>Very low in carbohydrate.<\/li>\n<li>Good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamin C.<\/li>\n<li>Packed with antioxidants to effectively fight the free radicals in your body. (Free radicals are to your body like rust is to a car, and antioxidants prevent the rust from forming.)<\/li>\n<li>Anti-inflammatory properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What to make with asparagus:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, asparagus has always felt like a more &#8220;fancy&#8221; vegetable since we mainly ate it on special occasions when I was growing up. Maybe because it wasn&#8217;t as widely available or because it was a more expensive vegetable in Sweden at the time. So even though I eat more asparagus now than in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[297],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}