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Aisling Pigott, Lecturer, Dietetics, Cardiff Metropolitan University

The 30-plants-a-week challenge: you’ll still see gut health benefits even if you don’t meet this goal

Plant foods can have many benefits for our health. marilyn barbone/ Shutterstock

The more plants you include in your diet, the more health benefits you’ll notice. This is why public health guidelines have long encouraged people to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.

But the 30-plants-a-week challenge circulating online suggests that, instead of only aiming to eat five servings a day, we should instead aim to eat 30 different plant foods per week to improve our health. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, wholegrains, herbs and spices would all count as a plant serving.

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