Eating five fruits and vegetables a day might not cut it, research suggests, with those who eat 11 different plants a day proving to be healthier. People in the UK eat a median of eight different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some gut health specialists have suggested we should rethink the five-a-day model and focus on eating 30 a week instead. (Getty ...

The 5-a-day slogan was invented in the late 1980s in America, before finding its way to the UK in the early 2000s. It was based on the idea that we need 400g of fruit and vegetables every day to ...

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has stirred debate by calling the familiar five-a-day message “a lie”. Speaking to the Times, he argued that the real health benefits of fruit and vegetables only start to ...

It’s a decreasing trend, says women’s health dietitian Clementine Vaughan, which is probably down to several factors: ‘The survey included the Covid years, which likely exacerbated the problem of ...

We've all heard that it's important to get your "five a day," meaning five servings of fruits and vegetables. But Federica Amati, the lead nutritionist at ZOE, a science and nutrition company, told ...