Tegan Taylor

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What's That Rash? · Eat the rainbow: what can food colour tell us? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

We're of course talking about lots and lots of vegetables, a hallmark of the Mediterranean diet and other similar diets.

First things first, Norman, why do fruits and vegetables even have colours?

I do love the fact that these are things that plants have evolved to protect themselves or to benefit themselves.

And we love to just focus on how good they are for us and not really think so much about the original benefit of the plant in question.

So plants, thank you.

Thank you for developing these things because we all benefit from it.

Love that, fully endorse that.

And yet we are gonna break it down just a little bit because it's fun and it's really interesting to see what different fruits and vegetables give us.

And what better way to approach this than the rainbow, as Priya would say?

Let's start at the top of the uh the spectrum.

Red.

What are we getting from red fruit and veg?

Yeah, you thought oxygen was good for you.

Boy are you wrong.

Okay, so Lycopene equals red.

When we're going to like orange yellow veggies, what are we getting?

Carotenoids sounds like a disease.

It's so funny that you say the thing about orange and yellow veggies leading to h protecting your eye 'cause I always thought the carrots for your eyesight thing was a myth.

You know, you sort of like, Oh, eat carrots, it'll protect your eyesight and you so you go, Why?

And they go, Have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?

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