UK Government 5 A DAY Campaign

Is anyone able to critique this campaign?

5 a day essentially means 5 portions of a variety of fruits and vegetables per day. In other words: don't eat 5 bananas. Stick with one and then get the rest of the daily quota from other sources.

What counts as a portion also varies.

It takes 14 mushrooms (albeit smaller sized ones) to count as one portion.
2 handfuls of raspberries.
1/2 red pepper.
1 tomato.
8 spring onions.
4tsp green beans.
2 satsumas.
1 orange.
1 onion.
8 florets of cauliflower.
10 blackberries.

It has also been reported that if a person was to juice down their fruit and veg to make, say, a green smoothie, this would only be valid for ONE portion of 5 a day. It doesn't matter if he makes five smoothies, it only counts as one.

I am loathe to waste money on a multi-vitamin but how could true could it be that somehow 5 green smoothies "doesn't count." Perhaps they're referring to the different nutrient qualities found in various colored vegetables. Green, yellow, orange, purple, white and red.


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