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Basics · Lesson 4 of 16 · 3 min

Fruit and vegetables: why colour matters

Volume, fibre, and the nutrients nothing else covers.

Vegetables and fruit are how you eat a satisfying amount of food without a lot of calories, and how you get the fibre and micronutrients that supplements imitate badly. Different colours carry different compounds, which is why 'eat the rainbow' survives as advice — it's a shortcut for variety.

A workable target is a fist of vegetables at lunch and dinner and one or two pieces of fruit a day. Frozen counts. Pre-chopped counts. Canned, rinsed, counts. The version you'll actually eat is the right version.

If big raw salads leave you bloated or too full to get your protein in — common on a GLP-1 — cook them instead. Roasted, sautéed, or blended into a soup takes up less room and digests more easily.

Fruit is not sugar you need to fear. It arrives with fibre and water, and it's usually the easiest swap for whatever you were eating out of a wrapper.

Do this today

Add one fist of vegetables to lunch — frozen or pre-cut is fine.

Quick check

Three questions

No score, no pressure — answering is just how the ideas stick.

  1. 1. Why aim for different colours?

  2. 2. Big raw salads leave you too full for protein. Best move?

  3. 3. Do frozen and canned vegetables count?

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