LibGuides: Vegetables!: Home

Websites

Half Your Plate
This resource from the Canadian government has an easy-to-use interface-- just point and click at your vegetable to find nutritional information, a guide to selecting the freshest, ripest ones, storage information, and preparation tips. Click on "Browse Recipes" on the right, then use the search bar at the top right to find healthy recipes featuring your vegetable.
Food Features from the Harvard School of Public Health
Click on your vegetable to find detailed nutritional information, tips for buying, research-based information about the health benefits of the vegetable, ways to eat it, and even fun facts!
ChooseMyPlate
The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) publishes this website to inform consumers about food health, safety, and nutrition. The website is currently being updated. To find recipes, click on MyPlate Kitchen and search your vegetable.

Databases

U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
This databases searches all the major newspapers in the U.S., all of which publish LOTS of recipes. Do a search for your vegetable and the word recipe, (i.e. cauliflower recipe) to find lots of interesting new ways to prepare your vegetable.
Health Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Search any fruit or vegetable to find several articles containing nutritional and health information about it.

Access from home
UserID: nhrhs
Password: highlanders
Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Search any vegetable to find articles from magazines, newspapers, journals, and reference sources. To quickly narrow down to the relevant articles, open one that has your vegetable listed as a Subject, and click on the vegetable's name. Here, you will find recipes, gardening tips, and health information about your vegetable of choice.

Logging into the Databases from Home

From school, clicking on any of the database links will get you directly in to any database.

From home, you need login credentials. These are subscription databases, which means that someone (either the state of NJ or Northern Highlands) has paid for you to have access, so you have to prove that you are entitled to access them. Click on the image below to access the Google Doc containing the passwords. You must be signed in with a Northern Highlands account to view these passwords.

Having trouble? Email the librarian at goldbergj@northernhighlands.org, or stop by the Library.

How to Save Links in Databases

Unlike those of a free website, database URLs are dynamic. That means that they change, so if you copy and paste a URL from a database into a Google Doc, the link will not work.

Permanent links are found in different places in different families of databases. The table below will show you where to find permanent links to the database pages you want to visit again.

Permanent links
Company	Look for	Screenshot
Gale	Get link in upper right corner
EBSCO	Permalink near the end of the list on the right
Infobase	Record URL Scroll to the bottom of the page
JSTOR	Link on the left, below the image of the journal.
Proquest	In the top right corner, click All Options. You will see the link on the top of the page.	.