Colorful Fruits and Vegetables
By Denise
@petatonicsca (7070)
Japan
September 11, 2017 3:01am CST
I was thinking how to make sure I get all necessary vitamins and minerals without having to take pills, and I remembered something I read several years ago about eating a "rainbow" of plant-based food. Apparently, each color has something it specializes at.
The fruits and vegetables are categorized as red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, blue/purple, brown/black and white. Some people say that you should try for balance every day with all the different colors.
If I tried that, I would end up wasting a lot of food, because I can't eat up everything that fast. I tend to make one vegetable and eat it all week. However, I think I am going to try to have more colors in my meals from now on.
Do you try to eat healthy vegetables and fruits of different colors?
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
11 Sep 17
So what fruits have listed, my recommendations he he
Yellow, banana and mango
Green, coconut
Red, apple
Orange, orange
Brown, chico
Black, grapes
Purple, avocado
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@LadyDuck (457837)
• Switzerland
11 Sep 17
@ilocosboy Is it purple inside? I have never seen those species.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
11 Sep 17
@LadyDuck we have the variants of purple avocado. Actuslly purple has more variants than green.
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@LadyDuck (457837)
• Switzerland
12 Sep 17
@petatonicsca I think you have persimmons, this is something that we have locally and also pomegranates.
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
3 Oct 17
@LadyDuck Yes, we have persimmons. I wish we had pomegranates locally because they are too expensive for us to buy.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
In winter we don't have much available. Bananas, mikans (mandarin oranges) and apples. Sometimes grapes from South America. Frozen blueberries. Right now, fall, we have a number of other very nice seasonal fruits.
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@youless (112103)
• Guangzhou, China
12 Sep 17
I like your idea which you will obtain the vitamins from the natural food. This is very different from the foreigners. As I think sometimes they tend to take the vitamin pills more frequent.
I like the change, even for my diet. Namely I will not have the same food all the time. Such as if today I have broccoli, then tomorrow I will have spinach etc. It is the same for me to cook the meats.
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
I used to do that but now living by myself it's easier to just cook one food per week and eat it all week.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
11 Sep 17
Koreans have this food they called Bibimbap. When I was watching National Geographic when it was featured, it says that this food has different colors of ingredients because each color actually targets a specific parts in our organs for health.
So every chance I get, I eat at a Korean restaurant and order bibimbap. I love it.
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@fickypangkey (61)
• Indonesia
11 Sep 17
I can only consume fruits that I can get, in my place Indonesia especially in Minahasa, we plant fruit trees in our yard. such as mango, papaya, rambutan, guava, pineapple and more
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
Those sound like very exotic fruits to me! I have a persimmon, loquat, and kumquat tree in my yard, and gooseberry bushes.
@rubyriaz007 (4188)
• India
3 Oct 17
Yes I have healthy vegetables and fruits of different colors. I also make one vegetable a day or it will get wasted. We should make our food colorful by adding different types of vegetables...
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
3 Oct 17
I seem to be cooking one a day but making enough that there will be leftovers so I can combine them. Also I like making stews.
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@moneychaser (813)
• Baguio, Philippines
11 Sep 17
That's true. Every color represents its most potential vitamins and nutrients. I like eating fruits...:)
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
I probably should eat more fruits but in Japan fruit is very expensive and vegetables are not so expensive.
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
I think this new idea might last two weeks in my house... then I'll probably decide it's too much trouble.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
12 Sep 17
I think I saw it on a poster. That made me interested and it's really a "thing" scientifically.
