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I watched a doco on Netflix called Hack Your Health: The secrets of your gut. It was really interesting. Basically they talked about how gut microbiomes play an important role in our health and the more diverse diet the more healthy biomes we have. We should be aiming for between 20 - 30 different fruit and veg a week. It was well worth watching.
This morning I had a croissant with jam, a coffee, and a plum. So 1/20. I agree though, a healthy microbiome is a very good thing.
It makes sense. I'm pretty healthy and I eat a diverse range of foods anyway but I'm gonna try to concentrate on the fruit and veg.
There's a very strong connection between the necktop processing unit and the gut level reactor. I'm not sold on the 20-30 different varieties though - perfectly OK to eat a smaller range, so long as the proportion of f & v in your diet is high enough to keep everything ticking over just fine.
They weren't talking about servings. So for instance a salad could have 5 different fruits or vegetables and those 5 count in the 20 - 30 weekly. Very doable. The more diversity the more diversity biomes.