While diets want you to cut this and everything from your plate, this diet gives you a chance to add more. Add vibrant colours to your diet. Vibrant colours of fruits and vegetables.

In a review paper Deanna M. Minich writes about the eating plant-based foods of different colours and variety can add health benefits, combat illnesses and stress with various antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties.

The search strategy for this review article was to start with a scientific literature review of the health benefits of fruits and vegetables, along with the predominant issues surrounding deficiencies in intake. Secondly, the goal was to organize the findings into a categorical system for ease of understanding and application.

Deanna associates each of the colors with a health benefit for ease of remembering to eat a variety of colorful foods in one such approach may help people to relate to the health properties of fruits and vegetables. Ensuring the consumption of a variety of foods will enable the individual to sample from thousands of phytochemicals that may help to offset an increased risk of chronic disease.

Here is the colour chart

Red food for Inflammation.

Orange for reproductive health

Yellow foods for digestion

Green for cardiovascular health.

Blue and purple for cognition

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnme/2019/2125070/