Fruit & Veg Colour Chart

The easiest way to make a meal as nutritious as possible is to focus on colour. By eating a rainbow of colours, you end up eating an array of nutrients!

Draw up a rainbow chart like the one below and challenge the whole family to pick some red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo and violet fruit and vegetables each day. Even the pickiest child is bound to relish at least one of those fruity colours. If you fill your rainbow chart with all the colours, you can rest assured that the family is eating healthier while getting a great variety of immune boosting vitamins and disease-fighting phytochemicals.

What are the 5 Colours of Fruit and Vegetables?

Greens are
packedĀ 
with
folate

Asparagus

Kale & cabbage

Kiwi

Broccoli

Sprouts

Green beans

Spinach

Peas

Watercress

Rocket

Gooseberries

Green herbs

Reds have disease
fighting
Lycopenes

Tomatoes

Cherries

Radishes

Strawberries

Raspberries

Red pepper

Baked beans

Kidney beans

Red lentils

Cranberries

Red grapes

Chilli pepper

Orange & Yellow
are full of Vitamin
A

Oranges

Carrots

Lemon

Peach

Apricots

Peach

Melon

Mandarins

Squash/ Pumpkin

Sweet potatoes

Sweet corn

Yellow peppers

Purples are really
high in Vitamin
C

Aubergine

Beetroot

Blackberries

Blueberries

Blackcurrants

Plums/prunes

Pomegranate

Purple grapes

Purple cabbage

Red onion

Raisons

Purple asparagus

Whites have disease
fighting
phytochemicals

Apples

Cauliflower

Mushrooms

Onions

Bananas

Garlic

Chickpeas

Butter beans

Lentils

Parsnips

Turnip

Brown pear