17/08/2026
Small fruits, big diversity
I love discovering foods I don’t usually see in my everyday shops like these 🍌 mini bananas from India and 🍇 mini grapes from Iran — tiny in size but full of flavour and nutritional goodness.
🍌 Mini bananas have a finer skin and are naturally sweet and creamy, providing fibre, potassium and vitamin B6.
🍇 Grapes bring fibre, vitamin K and a variety of beneficial plant compounds, including polyphenols found particularly in their skins and bring
Eating new foods brings variety to our diet 🌱
Our gut microbes thrive on the different types of fibre and plant compounds found in a different plant foods.
So eating a greater variety — including foods from different regions, climates and growing environments — gives us a broader range of plant compounds for our gut microbes to work with.
Different colours.
Different plants.
Different fibres.
Different polyphenols.
Different places.
How many different plant foods have you eaten this week?