Rhianna Lambert

Often you see an image of broccoli or an apple.

They're the two foods.

Blueberries, yeah, they are.

They're like the foods that I think are placed at the hierarchy.

Especially for children, there's this strange messaging that broccoli is like the answer for everything.

You could probably get more vitamin C in a red pepper than a portion of broccoli for a child, you see.

So by placing a hierarchy on veg and fruit, I think it's really unhelpful.

I understand completely that you don't like the taste of fruit and you like the taste of veggies and legumes more.

And I think you're not going to be missing.

So fruit provides fiber, first of all, as long as you're replacing the fiber with the legumes, which you definitely are, and the vegetables, you're fine.

Fruit contains vitamin C or soda vegetables.

As you said, red peppers.

Exactly.

You're totally fine there.

What I will say is fruit offers calcium just as much as vegetables do.

So that's one mineral that you can potentially be aware of.

But as long as you're getting calcium from leafy greens and other areas within your diet, you're okay.

So I don't think you're particularly missing anything.

The one thing...

that's easier in fruit is anthocyanins from dark coloured, like pomegranates, dark berries, blueberries, blackberries.