
Here are just a few ideas for naturally colourful meals, making up an entire daily 'Rainbow Diet':
Breakfast
- Greens and Blues - Avocado, watercress and blueberry smoothie
- Reds, oranges and yellows - Slices banana, papaya and mango, topped with fresh pomegranate seeds
​Lunch
- Reds, oranges and yellows - Carrot, tomato and red chilli soup, with a baked sweet potato and radicchio salad
- All greens - Salad of baby spinach and lamb's lettuce, with avocado, pumpkin seeds, chopped cucumber, sliced courgette and green olives
​Snack
- White - white bean hummus with raw cauliflower florets
- Green - Nori seaweed wraps filled with sliced avocado, alfalfa and sliced cucumber
​Dinner
- White and purple - Stir fry of onion, garlic, mushrooms, purple sprouting brocolli, red and white cabbage, with mixed white beans and kedney beans
- A full rainbow meal - Leafy green salad of romaine lettuce, watercress and chicory, topped with avocado, cucumber, red and yellow pepper, carrot, courgette, tomato . . . and garnished with arame seaweed strips, Nori flakes, chopped mint and pomegranate seeds.
​Dessert
- Blues - Freshly sliced purple figs with blueberry and blackberry sorbet​
Green |
Red and Pink |
White |
Yellow |
Blue and Purple |
Watercress | Pomegranates | White Onion | Yellow Peppers | Blueberries |
Spinach | Raspberries | Garlic | Sweet Potato | Blackberries |
Cos Lettuce | Strawberries | Cauliflower | Carrots | Purple Grapes |
Round Lettuce | Watermelon | Chicory | Oranges | Fresh Figs |
Lamb's Lettuce | Pink Grapefruit | Mushrooms | Apricots | Radicchio |
Alfalfa | Red Apples | New Potatoes | Mango | Aubergine |
Salad Cress | Tomatoes | White Cabbage | Papaya | Purple Potatoes |
Green Herbs | Red Peppers and Chillies | White Beans | Sharon Fruit | Purple Carrots |
Rocket | Puple Broccoli | |||
Cucumber | Red Cabbage | |||
Courgette | Arame Seaweed | |||
Green Peppers | Kidney Beans | |||
Avocado | Red Onion | |||
Nori Seaweed | ||||
Kiwi | ||||
Green Grapes | ||||
Green Apples | |