I'm not the only person to admire food. Entire careers are based on showcasing food to make it appear beautiful. For centuries artists have scrutinized arrangements of fruit to compose still-life masterpieces such as this piece by Paul Cézanne:
(please note that none of the foods depicted in this painting are foods I'm condoning in this post… slightly ironic)
Food is beautiful. Functionally most plants need animals to eat their food and spread their seeds so their fruit must be attractive enough to catch an animals eye. Attractive food is what I'm writing about today.
First let me point out that I have no credible sources to back up what I'm saying. I have read this in multiple places after looking at tons of "super food" lists I've come to this conclusion:
Pretty plant food that is a solid color all the way through to the core has added nutritional benefits.
For example: sweet potatoes vs. white potatoes. Although both a rich color on the outside, sweet potatoes are orange all the way to the core and have (from my research) quite a few more nutrients than white potatoes. The same is true of fruit. Fruit with a white core such as apples or pears do not have the nutritional richness of berries. This is not to say that apples or white potatoes are bad. I'm simply proposing that getting the most bang for your buck calorie vs. calorie, it would be wise to choose a plant food that is densely colorful to the core to reap the most nutritional benefits!
(Without the specification of "plant food", cheeze-its become my favorite colorful food and that isn't really what I'm going for.)
Moral of the story. Eat attractive food. Eat your veggies, better yet, eat a veggie that is every color of the rainbow both inside and out.
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