Color your diet healthful

Posted on: February 12, 2008
Posted by: SiteEditorArianna
Related topics: antioxidants, daily challenge, and healthy eating
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours

Fruits and veggies are actually colored by their various nutrients and phytochemicals. As a result, the more colors you eat at each meal, the more nutritious it is.

Today, challenge yourself to eat at least 5 fruits and veggies from each of these colors so that by the end of the day you’ve eaten a rainbow:

• Red (red apple, cranberries, grapes, red potatoes, radishes)
• Yellow/orange (grapefruit, oranges, bananas, squash)
• Purple/blue (eggplant, raisins, dried plums/prunes, purple potatos)
• Green (avocados, broccoli, kiwi, spinach, snow peas)

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ahollen1
Posted February 12, 2008 at 10:23 AM

I love doing this! It’s kinda cool to see how many different veggies you can put into a meal.

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momtoo
Posted February 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM

I love the variety of vegetables you can add to ordinary dishes. It’s really easy to add nutrition to each meal.

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punkrawkchef
Posted February 29, 2008 at 06:53 PM

I agree its a really fun way to eat new things!

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lynette355
Posted March 05, 2008 at 06:42 AM

Color makes food more exciting without having to add high fat starches and fillers. Also using bright dishes to show off your food makes one feel better too. If you feel better when you sit to a meal then you can then concentrate on the evening and conversation, not just eating out of habit.

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ray__chul12
Posted March 08, 2008 at 09:44 AM

I love this, it worked very well and it was very fun.

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jojostc
Posted March 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM

being vegitarian its easy to remember to try to eat your rainbow of colors!

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moomoopenny
Posted March 27, 2008 at 08:50 AM

Who knew eating an array fruit and veggies would taste sooooo good. I have been experimenting with different things in the produce section. I have been trying things I never ever thought I would try and they actually taste better than most sweets!

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vinnie1973
Posted March 27, 2008 at 09:15 PM

fruit is better than i thought

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Randysdona
Posted April 11, 2008 at 10:11 PM

What a fun way to get your children in on eating better too.

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tikey
Posted May 13, 2008 at 11:07 PM

I always like to try new fruits and veggies i’m never tried before.. Espcially when you try cooking them different ways..