NBA Most Valuable Player candidate Stephen Curry (center) shined during the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Here he celebrates a second-round win over Georgetown with his Davidson College teammates after a 25-point second-half performance.
(7) The Institute recommends against getting more than 1,000 micrograms per day of folic acid from supplements or fortified food; folate intake from food is not a concern. One main reason for the upper limit on folic acid is that getting too much folic acid can mask the signs of a vitamin B12 deficiency.
At the top of the list here are lentils, which achieve a rating of excellent for folate. In fact, among all WHFoods, lentils rank as our best source of folate! Rating very good as sources of folate are garbanzo beans, navy beans, kidney beans, and pinto beans.Some, but definitely not all, fruits are important sources of folate.Papayas and strawberries are very good sources of this nutrient, while oranges, pineapple, raspberries, kiwifruit, cantaloupe, lemons and limes all rate as good sources of this B vitamin.he words share a common root (the Latin word folium, meaning leaf), which helps remind us that green plant foods can be among the richest sources of folate. However, as the chart and table in this article show, there are outstanding sources of folate in other food groups as well (especially legumes).