A couple of years ago I wrote about how we should be eating at least 30 different plant foods a week. Research into this is continuing, especially by Prof. Tim Spector of King’s College, London. I’ll link to just two relevant items: Spector’s recent Top 5 Tips for a Healthier Gut Microbiome and this Mail+ article.

This prompted me to log how well I did against the 30-a-week target over four weeks starting on 5 July. Herere’s what I achieved.

[This excludes most condiments & pickles; tea; squash etc.]

That’s over 30 every week for four weeks, and is fairly typical of my normal diet – perhaps slightly better than average because of the availability of summer fruit. I really didn’t try especially to pick foods which would add to my total!

What’s more I make it 64 different foods over a four week period. Which is just plain crazy!

Could I do even better? Yes, probably; but apart from adding in winter vegetables I’d have to try fairly hard.