Sue Gilbert Sue is a consulting nutritionist. For many years she worked with Earth's Best Organic Baby Food, integrating nutrition and product development. She has written numerous articles on children's health and nutrition for parenting publications. When nutritionists recommend that you increase your intake of green vegetables, generally they are referring to the deep green ones. The deeper the green, the more nutritious.
All greens offer good nutritional value.
However, try to include a variety of greens in everyone's diet in your family. Just green beans, or just broccoli will cause you to miss out on some of the great nutrition of the other greens. Make a point of including a deep green vegetable at least three times a week. The other greens you can add here and there, as you please, to round out your variety and add interest to your diet. They won't give you the same nutritional value of dark green vegetables, but they have nutritional powers all their own.