Tired of your kids not eating enough veggies? Well tell them that if they don’t eat these vegetables with vitamin k in they’ll get ill! That’ll sort them out!

The vegetables with the most vitamin K are usually the ones which we don’t like to eat. That is, the green leafy vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and spinach, not forgetting the extra smelly Brussels’ sprouts! Some more vegetables with a lot of vitamin K in are white cabbage, coriander, parsley (though these are really herbs and taste nice), endive, Swiss chard, kale, green onion, red lettuce, green peppers, turnip greens and watercress. If you’re not so keen on taking in those each day, bananas also have a lot of Vitamin K in, as does celery and iceberg lettuce.

In general, vitamin K deficiency is not something that is normally seen, since the vitamin is in so many different food types, even in small amounts in cereals and other vegetables like tomatoes, beans, artichokes and beetroot.

Here are some guideline amounts for how much of each vegetable you would need to ingest to get a decent daily dose of vitamin K:

7 spears of asparagus (makes your pee smell!)

1 and a half cups of parsely

2 parsnips

One half of a green pepper

One tomato

3 cups of watercress

Or just 5 Brussels’ sprouts!

However, you should not worry too much about taking in a huge amount of vitamin K each and every day, as your body is able to naturally store a lot of this vitamin for a long number of days. As for over doses of vitamin K, again these are very rare and no known serious cases have occurred. There are problems with certain anticoagulation medicines, and if you are taking any of these you should definitely consult a doctor if you are in any doubt at all. In the meantime, keep eating those leafy green vegetables and enjoying that Swiss chard! Besides all the vitamin K it has, it’s incredibly good for you in other ways, except the gaseous part of course, but that’s purely cosmetic…!

Lastly, if you’re using oil in salads or in your cooking, make sure it’s olive oil, and preferably extra virgin, because (you guessed it) it has a high amount of vitamin K in as well!