Veggie Village

🌈 Veggie Village

Eat-the-rainbow challenge

Can you try a plant food of every colour this week? Tap a colour each time you eat, taste or help prepare a fruit or vegetable of that colour. Each sticker earns 5 XP.

0 of 35 rainbow stickers this week

  1. Monday

  2. Tuesday

  3. Wednesday

  4. Thursday

  5. Friday

  6. Saturday

  7. Sunday

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🎮 How to play

  1. Find today in the chart.
  2. Ate, tasted or helped wash a red food? Tap red. Do the same for the other colours.
  3. Collect all five colours in one day for the Rainbow Day badge, and 20 stickers in a week for Rainbow Explorer. A new chart starts every Monday.

👪 For grown-ups

  • This is a game about curiosity, not a nutrition score. Offering, smelling, touching and helping to cook all count; never pressure a child to eat.
  • A varied plant-based diet still needs planning. Vegan children need a reliable source of vitamin B12, so talk to a paediatric dietitian or doctor about your child’s needs.
  • Check allergies before sharing food, and supervise knives, graters and blenders.

Colour guide

Red

Try: tomatoes, strawberries, red peppers, watermelon, cherries, radishes

Tomatoes and watermelon get their red from a natural pigment called lycopene; strawberries and cherries are coloured by anthocyanins.

Orange & yellow

Try: carrots, oranges, sweetcorn, mango, pumpkin, yellow peppers

Carrots, pumpkins and mangoes are coloured by carotenoids such as beta-carotene, which the body can turn into vitamin A.

Green

Try: broccoli, peas, spinach, kiwi, cucumber, green beans

Green plants are full of chlorophyll, the pigment that catches sunlight so they can make their own food.

Blue & purple

Try: blueberries, purple grapes, aubergine, red cabbage, plums, beetroot

Blueberries, red cabbage and purple grapes get their colour from anthocyanins. Red cabbage water even changes colour when a grown-up adds lemon juice!

White & brown

Try: cauliflower, mushrooms, onions, chickpeas, potatoes, oats

Pale foods have their own plant compounds too, and beans, lentils and whole grains such as oats bring plenty of fibre.

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