Fat-free salad dressing RUINS your salad...

If you’re eating salad to get something healthy into your system – DON’T use fat-free dressing! 

Mario Ferruzzi, associate professor of food science at Purdue explains: In order for our bodies to absorb the nutrients from vegetables, we actually need some fat with it to get the job done. 

They tested several kinds of dressings and found that dressings made with monounsaturated fat such as olive and canola oil were the most complimentary to the carotenoids found in our plant foods – or salads.