(28-08-2013, 13:49)AbiDrew85 Wrote: If you're craving salad like that you're probably deficient in a number of the B complex vitamins and possibly C. Maybe A. Depends how you make you salad, if you use a dressing, and if it's a fatty based dressing for the A.
And K! How the heck did I forget K! In fact... K's probably even more likely than anything else. K is almost entirely only gotten from fresh dark leafy greens. It's pretty strongly present in other veggies as well, but dark leafy greens == abundance!
A quick fix for that is to garnish more of your food with basil. Basil is the single highest food source for K. Garnish at the absolute last minute though. As soon as the basil hits any kind of serious heat about half your vitamin K is GONE!