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View submission: Do you eat your 5 a day?
Sometimes. My understanding is that it's kinda nonsense but is really just a way to get people to eat their fruit and vegetables, because it's easier for people to understand hard numbers. I always found it gets a bit muddy when you start factoring all the caveats - only one of them can be juice, you can't repeat the same fruit, some fruit are so small that you need to eat more than one to count, potatoes don't count, etc. etc.
Comment by muaythaiguy155 at 27/02/2025 at 09:45 UTC
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Really not that complicated that it’s 5 different fruits/veg and a singular fucking grape doesn’t count
Comment by Goldf_sh4 at 27/02/2025 at 09:54 UTC
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A dietician friend mentioned to me that in Scandinavian countries that generally have a more healthy eating culture, the recommended number is 7 or 9 fruits and vegetables a day. The UK government knew they'd have no hope trying to talk UK people into eating that healthily, so they went for 5.
Comment by wilddogecoding at 27/02/2025 at 11:09 UTC
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It's all made up big fruit to get you to buy more fruit
Comment by Doby_Mick at 27/02/2025 at 10:48 UTC
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When I was younger my mum always said 80g was a portion, and I still go by that and it works out pretty well I think, with vegetables with dinner (usually have two 80g portions if it's that kind of dinner). Obviously dinners like a chilli or bolognese won't have 80g per portion necessarily (probs 200g of carrot/celery/onion across 6 portions) but still plenty there too. Then most "big" fruit will hit 80g, then if I have blueberries/grapes then I'll weigh out 80-100g. I reckon I hit 5 most days.