Eat the rainbow!

What colour is your food?  Does the food on your plate always range from beige to just bland in colour? 

Research shows that the vast array of healthy phytochemicals found in fruit and vegetables of various colours offer many astounding health benefits.

If you aim to eat a 'rainbow of colour' of fruit and vegetables a day you will naturally increase your daily consumption of these wonderful nutrients and hopefully even surpass the recommended 'five' servings of fruit and vegetables a day. (Ideally aim for at least nine or ten a day for good health).

So how do you achieve a 'rainbow of colours' a day? Is it that hard to do? Well all this means is picking at least one daily serving of fruit and vegetables from each of the four colour groups – red, orange/ yellow, green, and purple/blue.

Each coloured fruit or veg contains slightly different nutrients each with amazing health benefits. For example, Blueberries contain Anthocyanins (these help protect against cell damage) and carrots contain beta-carotene (great for eye health). Yes they really will help you see in the dark!!

For example a typical day could look like:

Breakfast: Include Raspberries and Blueberries and an apple.

Lunch: Include Rocket, sugar-snap peas, yellow pepper.

Dinner: Include butternut squash, spring greens and red cabbage.

Give it a try:) x