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View submission: Do you eat your 5 a day?
30 plants a week is actually *less* than 5 a day, which would be 35
Comment by isotopesfan at 27/02/2025 at 11:29 UTC
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But they have to be 30 unique plants.
E.g. following 'five a day' I could eat a banana, some spinach, a courgette, some mushrooms and some strawberries, every single day. I would eat 35 servings of plants across the week, but they would be the same 5 plants.
Following '30 a week' one is still encouraged to have 5 servings of fruit/veg a day, but should aim to eat 30 diff plants a week. So on Monday I could eat the above but then on Tuesday I would need to pivot to tomatoes, kiwi fruit, broccoli, cabbage and some grapes, etc.
I guess the new way of thinking stresses diversity of plant intake vs just getting a number of servings.
Comment by StardustOasis at 27/02/2025 at 11:30 UTC
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It doesn't mean you are supposed to eat 5 different plants every single day. Just your diet should, each week, contain a combination of at least 30 kinds.
Comment by Fyonella at 27/02/2025 at 16:19 UTC
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And the initiatives have different goals, they’re not related!
5 a day for fibre
30 unique plants a week for gut health.
I don’t know why people find it all so hard to understand.