Improved gut health and overall well-being - 30 plants a week tracker

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Gut health has been in the news in recent weeks, months and possibly years.
A healthy gut is linked to a healthy brain.

Whether you are a stroke survivor or a non-stroke survivor you will benefit from having a healthy gut.

One way to do this is to eat 30 or more plants a week. Note this does not mean you have to be a vegetarian or vegan, but it does mean you have to eat 30 or more plants a week.

There is lot’s of information on the internut, but I include below a link from the BBC website for starters.

I am hoping that you will join me in a sort of game to track the plant intake

The idea is you include in your post ONE plant you have eaten in the last seven days AND which has not already been mentioned by another member in their previous posts.

It is not my intention to cause brain fog or fatigue, but if it does it might be good as no pain is no gain and so getting a bit of brain fog or fatigue may make you stronger (the phrase goes if it does not kill you it will make you stronger or something along those lines).

Now, we all know rules are meant to be broken and certainly on this forum this is a given and since I am possibly the only one who is looking to benefit from this game i.e. I am trying to see if I can get 30 or more plants in my diet in a week, I will monitor the posts to pick out the plants that I need to include.

I will start this off by my first plant and that is
AVOCADO - I eat this as a fruit, in guacamole and I make chapatti dough using the avocado flesh as the [healthy] fat.
Plant 1 - AVOCADO

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Broccoli, steamed as a veg, added to leek & potato soup, broccoli cheese.

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Cabbage - steamed & eaten alongside other veggies.

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Just a quick update to say it’s a lot easier than I had first thought.
This list was achieved quite easily in less than a week.

  1. Avocado
  2. Broccoli
  3. Cabbage
  4. Almonds
  5. Sunflower seeds
  6. Pumpkin seeds
  7. Celery
  8. Onion
  9. Garlic
  10. Butter beans
  11. Kidney Beans
  12. Red Pepper
  13. Green Pepper
  14. Lychees
  15. Apples
  16. Oranges
  17. Grapefruit
  18. Bananas
  19. Blueberries
  20. Strawberries
  21. Raspberries
  22. Tomatoes
  23. Carrots
  24. Beetroots
  25. Sweet potatos
  26. Lettuce
  27. Cucumber
  28. Walnuts
  29. Brazil Nuts
  30. Chilli
  31. Chick peas
  32. Okra
  33. Bitter Gourd
  34. Aubergine
  35. Drumstick (moringa oleifera)
  36. Lime
  37. Radish
  38. Dark chocolate
  39. Lemon
  40. Popcorn
  41. Grapes
  42. Coffee
  43. Green Tea
  44. Mushroom
  45. Spinach

The list is actually longer since as I understand it, different colours of fruit and veg count and so Green, Red and Yellow Pepper is 3.

Nice !

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That’s definitely a lot of variety and i would say you’ve achieved 30 with ease.

Not sure how many I had but here’s a list if those i can remember.

  1. Carrots
  2. Cabbage
  3. Broccoli
  4. Swede
  5. Kidney beans - in a chilli. Does that count?
  6. Peas
  7. Onion
  8. Strawberries
  9. Blackberries
  10. Grapes
  11. Kiwi
  12. Apples (eating)
  13. Tangerine
  14. Broad beans
  15. Lettuce
  16. Red pepper
  17. Cucumber
  18. Lemon & ginger tea
  19. Green pepper
  20. Beetroot
  21. New potatoes?
  22. Coffee - does that count?
  23. Baked beans?
  24. French beans
  25. Cooking apples
  26. Oats ?
  27. tomatoes (tinned)

Can’t think of anymore but not too far off 30. If only I liked fresh tomatoes & bananas :grin:

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Nice - a few on your list that I haven’t had but do eat them often enough e.g. Kiwi and yes kidney beans and coffee beans count.

It’s not as hard as we might think.

Take care.

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