How many colors do you eat in a day?
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Anonymous
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I am wondering about how good or bad I am at eating fruits, veggies, and how others are doing. Obviously not so much colors, but different foods.
Friday, I ate, two bananas, one apple bowl of cherries Stew (little bit of beef, carrots, potatoes and onions were in it) Trout with lemon Banana bread (wheat, bananas in it.) I think that is 10 different foods/color? Is that good? What about you, how are you doing with different foods/color? |
Anonymous
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You need green, OP. That's the most important one. FTY when people say "eat the rainbow" they don't count beef or wheat, but the plants.
The colorful plants I ate yesterday: - watermelon - big salad for dinner (mixed leafy greens, shallots, corn, cucumbers, carrots, onion, avocado, sweet potatoes). |
Anonymous
| red, yellow, orange, green, and purple skittles |
Anonymous
Why don't they count wheat and meet? Makes no sense to me. Should not count oatmeal? |
Anonymous
When they talk about the colors, they mean a variety of vitamins, minerals and other healthy RDA nutrition. Meat and wheat generally don't have a lot of those. Red meat has iron. wheat has some minor amounts of vitamins, but nowhere near as much as fruits and vegetables. So OP has 3, white, red, orange. Unless you are eating the banana or lemon peels, you don't get yellow out of what you ate. And if you peel your apples (e.g. don't eat the skin) then you don't get credit for red. As another PP mentioned, you are missing the most critical one, green. You want to have as much green and variety as possible. So you want some leafy, cruciferous greens plus other greens like legumes or green fruits. Some ways to increase colors: - rainbow carrots or cauliflower - mix in some red cabbage and shredded carrots on salads - red and green grapes, mix of berries, or just fruit salad - mix of bell pepper colors |
Anonymous
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Agreed talking about eating the rainbow refers to fruits and veggies.
I had leftovers for breakfast so that included riced cauliflower and broccoli. Lunch just now was a salad that included romaine lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes. Also some freeze-dried edamame but I don't really think that counts. Snack later will be lowfat yogurt with fresh blueberries. Dinner menu tonight includes corn and tomatoes. |
Anonymous
That's a lot of sugar for one day though. |
Anonymous
For breakfast riced cauliflower and broccoli? Well, to each their own. Are you able to fill even 1/4 full from what you wrote? Sounds like bird food. |
Anonymous
I disagree. Fruit is healthy and good for me and natural sugar is good and healthy. I am absolutely never going to be indoctrinated that fruit is bad. I leave that for keto cult followers who are brain washed like any other cult followers. |
Anonymous
Let me guess, you are middle-aged woman. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Another thing that helps is to work towards 30 disparate plants per week. That will help with colors and nutrients. |
Anonymous
Because while meat and grains have some value, they don't have nearly the vitamin and mineral benefits that fruits and vegetables have, and most of which can only be found in plants. And yes, green is the most important color to eat. But I might add the colors you get from beans as also valuable (red kidney beans, beige chickpeas, green lima beans, black beans, etc). |
Anonymous
DP: what an ignorant and strange response. So only "middle aged women" eat these things? |
Anonymous
DP. Only people obsessed with their weight eat that little. |