My diet is very similar to this one. I’m curious what other knowledgeable people think about the lack of variety in vegetables/fruits. I’m also curious about other people’s takes on the lack of probiotics.
My not very informed take on probiotics is that if you eat similar quantities of fiber like me, and lots of green leafy greens and legumes, this is what is best known to support a healthy bacterial environment in the gut. I also have in periods eaten miso and kimchi in order to get more live bacteria into my gut but have stopped and not noticed much difference.
Oh and on variety in fruits/veggies—I supplement opportunistically. So if I am hungry, have time and there is an orange in front of me, I’ll eat it. But I won’t go out of my way to do this. I also have some fresh pressed juice every morning (orange, apple, pineapple and some smaller quantities of ginger etc). But variety in vegetables is something I am currently not getting. For the first 5 years I varied between broccoli, cauliflower and crimini mushroom (when I had time—before kids!) but not sure that covered the nutritional needs as well as my current diet. But maybe variety is more important than exactly hitting all RDAs—I think science is not clear here. Would be interesting to see e.g. in blue zones how many people hit the RDA on all nutrients. If they don’t that is strong evidence that it is not super important, at least not for all nutrients.
My diet is very similar to this one. I’m curious what other knowledgeable people think about the lack of variety in vegetables/fruits. I’m also curious about other people’s takes on the lack of probiotics.
My not very informed take on probiotics is that if you eat similar quantities of fiber like me, and lots of green leafy greens and legumes, this is what is best known to support a healthy bacterial environment in the gut. I also have in periods eaten miso and kimchi in order to get more live bacteria into my gut but have stopped and not noticed much difference.
Oh and on variety in fruits/veggies—I supplement opportunistically. So if I am hungry, have time and there is an orange in front of me, I’ll eat it. But I won’t go out of my way to do this. I also have some fresh pressed juice every morning (orange, apple, pineapple and some smaller quantities of ginger etc). But variety in vegetables is something I am currently not getting. For the first 5 years I varied between broccoli, cauliflower and crimini mushroom (when I had time—before kids!) but not sure that covered the nutritional needs as well as my current diet. But maybe variety is more important than exactly hitting all RDAs—I think science is not clear here. Would be interesting to see e.g. in blue zones how many people hit the RDA on all nutrients. If they don’t that is strong evidence that it is not super important, at least not for all nutrients.