Create a healthy dish bursting with flavor and substance by going for the greens. Try these tips for incorporating more leafy vegetables into your everyday meals:

• Spinach. Considered a super food that can protect against macular degeneration, heart disease, and cancer, spinach is a free-radical foe that delivers key vitamins like A, B2, C, and K as well as fiber and iron. Raw baby spinach tends to be milder and more malleable than larger flat-leafed spinach, but either goes well with other salad greens. Try it on your sandwich, shredded into enchiladas, or stir fried with a little olive oil and garlic as a delicious side dish.

• Romaine. Bursting with vitamins A, C, and K, fiber, and folic acid, romaine serves as a healthy and flavorful base for salads. Add a variety of other vegetables like broccoli florets, carrots, red peppers, red-tip lettuce, and cabbage.

• Collard greens. A Southern cuisine favorite, collard greens are especially rich in vitamins A and K, fiber, and calcium. Like its cruciferous cousins, this humble plant is an antioxidant superstar that also helps protect against high cholesterol. To best unlock its powers, steam it. Collard greens are delicious as a side, in soup, in salad, and more.