How many colors do you eat in a day?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I would think that salmon or trout should count. Aren't they full of goodness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re doing fine OP but your colors are coming mostly from starchy fruits (apples and bananas) and potatoes. Lemon doesn’t really count. You need leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, complex carbs (sweet potatoes, lentils).

Indeed, yes, I do agree. I often have a lot of peas and carrots and cabbage, but lately I was eating more fruit than veggies to be honest. But then are peas a starchy veggie as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That's a lot of sugar for one day though.

+1
I disagree.
Enjoy fruit and all. But that’s a sugar bomb day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today's colors: blue(berry), yellow (banana), apricot, orange, green (spinach and parsley), red tomato, white (artichoke) ... among other foods.

... and Rosé

Ah, and so full of antioxidants... that rose color!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not great today, I am out of fruit
Vegetables:
Green: Broccoli, lettuce, zucchini
Red: pepper
Purple: red onion (does this count?)

Yesterday was the opposite, lots of fruit and less vegetables

Green: peas, honeydew
Orange: carrots
Pink: watermelon
Yellow: mango, peach

I think that is pretty awesome! Can't see how you could do more, tbh.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday for me was peaches, tomato, basil, eggplant, zucchini and corn.

I only had one small slice of ham and ate some cheeese. I don’t get enough protein.

[Anonymous]

I eat food, not color. No fiber in colors. Crayons isn’t a good snack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That's a lot of sugar for one day though.

+1
Enjoy fruit and all. But that’s a sugar bomb day.

I agree. Especially all modern fruits we eat today have been altered by human intervention to produce the most sweet sugar filled product. I’m diabetic and this would be blood sugar wrecker for me.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast

cereal (mostly beige including milk)
blackberries
raspberries
blueberries
strawberries
coffee (black)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That's a lot of sugar for one day though.

+1
Enjoy fruit and all. But that’s a sugar bomb day.

I agree. Especially all modern fruits we eat today have been altered by human intervention to produce the most sweet sugar filled product. I’m diabetic and this would be blood sugar wrecker for me.

Stop watching tiktok and Facebook videos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I would think that salmon or trout should count. Aren't they full of goodness?

They count as healthy foods. Their colors don't come from micronutrients in the same way.

But yes, including seafood in the variety of food you eat is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Salmon is good for omega 3, it doesn’t count as a color the way you’re thinking. We eat colors for the variety of micronutrients and vitamins and fiber they give us. The same way we wouldn’t say “I ate purple today” because we ate a grape popsicle - sure you “ate a color” but that color didn’t come with the diversity of micronutrients and vitamins and fiber that you need, which is the point of telling people to “eat a rainbow.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re doing fine OP but your colors are coming mostly from starchy fruits (apples and bananas) and potatoes. Lemon doesn’t really count. You need leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, complex carbs (sweet potatoes, lentils).

An apple is white with a thin red skin. If you want to eat the rainbow, only eat the skin

[Anonymous]

Banana is white unless you are eating the peel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That's a lot of sugar for one day though.

+1
Enjoy fruit and all. But that’s a sugar bomb day.

I agree. Especially all modern fruits we eat today have been altered by human intervention to produce the most sweet sugar filled product. I’m diabetic and this would be blood sugar wrecker for me.

I really don't think it is a sugar bomb whatsoever. If you are diabetic, that is different.