On the heels of the scrumptious-but-nutritious recipes mentioned in our post below, we thought you might be interested in checking out this nifty guide to eating by color from Food & Wine Magazine. The gist: the varying colors found in foods generally correspond to specific nutritional elements. Eating a wide variety of foods from across the nutritional rainbow is the best dietary plan. For example, a salad of tomatoes (red), kale (green), scallions (white), beets (purple), and carrots (orange) would be both pleasing to the eye for aesthetic reasons and pleasing to your body for nutritional reasons.



