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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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).[/quote]
Why don't they count wheat and meet? Makes no sense to me. Should not count oatmeal?[/quote]

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[/quote]

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