It's easy to rejoice when your kids finally settle on a handful of fruit and veggies they'll actually eat - and then proceed to feed them those few items on repeat.
It's tempting, but the truth is that our kids (and fussy adults!) need and benefit from variety. If we want to stay as healthy as we can, we need to eat a rainbow.
Nature spoiled us with a huge selection of different flavours, textures and colours so that our meals could stay infinitely interesting - and beneficial. Each colour in fruits and vegetables is caused by specific phytonutrients: natural chemicals that help protect plants from germs, bugs, the sun’s harmful rays, and other threats. That protection and those benefits extend to us too. Eating a diversity of colourful foods can be an easy way to get a complete range of the vitamins and minerals our bodies need to thrive.
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We know it's not the easiest feat to introduce broad diversity into every meal, every day, and that's exactly why we squeezed all those nutrients we need into one simple powder that can be stirred into just about every juice, smoothie and even water.
Here's why you need every one of those gorgeous colours, and what each one offers:
Red & Pink
Fruits include: red apples, cherries, cranberries, red grapes, guava, red pear, red plum, pomegranate, raspberries, strawberries, watermelon
Veggies include: red sweet peppers, red chillies, red kidney beans, radishes and tomatoes
Contains: Vitamin C, potassium, carotenoids, lycopene, anthocyanins, quercetin, flavonoids
Get a concentration of reds in our Reds Concentrate (although still rich in a rainbow of phytonutrients).
Orange
Fruits include: apricots, mangos, oranges, orange nectarines, papaya, pawpaw, peach, persimmons
Veggies include: carrots, orange sweet peppers, orange lentils, pumpkin, sweet potato
Contains: Vitamin C, potassium, carotenoids, flavonoids, liminoids, terpenes
Yellow
Fruits include: yellow apples, banana, gooseberries, grapefruit, lemons, yellow pears, pineapple, yellow plums, quince, star fruit
Veggies include: yellow patty pans, yellow sweet peppers, sweetcorn, yellow tomatoes, yellow zucchini
Contains: Vitamin C, potassium, carotenoids (such as vitamin A, lutein and zeaxanthin), flavonoids, terpenes, quercetin
Health benefits: All of the above boast hugely beneficial properties when it comes to keeping your eyes, skin and immune system healthy. They may help protect against cancer and heart disease too.
Green
Fruits include: green apples, avocado, green fig, green grapes, honeydew melon, kiwi fruit, lime, green pears
Veggies include: asparagus, green beans, fresh broad beans, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, green peppers, celery, cucumber, artichokes, green herbs, green kale, leeks, lettuce, green olives, peas (green peas, snow peas, sugar snap peas), silverbeet, spinach, spring onion, green zucchini
Contains: Vitamins C, K and folate, calcium, potassium, iron, carotenoids (such as vitamin A, lutein and zeaxanthin), flavonoids, indoles, saponins, sulforaphane
Health benefits: Like their different coloured compadres, greens also keep eyes, skin and immunity boosted, and may help protect against cancer and heart disease. In addition to those though, greens also supply iron and folate to help make red blood cells. Calcium and vitamin K help keep bones healthy.
Get a concentration of greens in our Greens Concentrates (although still rich in a rainbow of phytonutrients).
Blue, Purple & Black
Fruits include: blueberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, purple figs, purple grapes, mulberries, passionfruit, purple plums, prunes
Veggies include: aubergine, beetroot, purple cabbage, purple or black peppers, purple carrot, purple kale, black olives, purple onion
Contains: Vitamin C, anthocyanins, chlorogenic acid, quercetin
Health benefits: These dark and lovely colours protect cells from damage and protect against heart disease and cancer. They've been linked with improved memory function and healthy ageing too.
White
Fruits include: white nectarine, white peaches, lychees, white currants
Veggies include: cauliflower, celeriac, Japanese radish (daikon radish), fennel bulbs, garlic, leeks, white onion, parsnip, shallots, turnips, water chestnuts, white beans (cannellini, lima beans, navy beans, soybeans)
Contains: Starch and protein, B group vitamins, potassium, indoles, isothiocyanates, anthoxanthins
Brown
Fruits include: brown pear, dried raisins or sultanas, dates, dried fig
Veggies include: Borlotti beans, brown lentils, Jerusalem artichoke, mushroom, potatoes
Contains: Starch and protein, B group vitamins, potassium, indoles, isothiocyanates, anthoxanthins
Health benefits: These supply protein for growth, energy for an active body and will help protect against cancer.
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