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Did you know that most of us regularly consume only around 12 different foods or ingredients on average? Yet the world of food is wonderfully diverse and rich. For example, we know of nearly 2,000 documented varieties of cheese alone. The number of vegetable and fruit varieties is of a similar magnitude.

With your everyday choices, you can also help ensure that the food grown and produced on Earth becomes more diverse. This is beneficial for the health of our planet, and it also has a positive impact on our own microbiome.

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Why is it important to eat a varied diet?

To ensure the intake of all the nutrients the human body needs, a balanced and healthy diet is essential. Today, more and more nutrition experts agree that there is no single “perfect” diet – healthy eating can be achieved in many different ways.
However, there are some key principles worth getting familiar with, as they can serve as practical guidance in everyday life, including when choosing your lunch at work, and help support a healthier diet overall.

It is beneficial to:

• Eat a varied diet, choosing from as many different foods and ingredients as possible when planning meals
• Use modern, gentle cooking methods, such as steaming, and thickening or binding sauces using the food itself
• Establish a regular eating pattern and eat in calm conditions, focusing on the act of eating
• Cover daily fluid needs (1.5–2 litres) primarily with tap water or mineral water
• Reduce intake of saturated fats and salt, avoid adding extra salt, and limit foods high in saturated fat and salt (such as processed meat products, salty baked goods, pickles, fatty processed and smoked cheeses, cream, and sour cream). To enhance flavour, it is recommended to use herbs and other dried spices instead of salt
• Choose low-fat, plain dairy products (such as kefir, yogurt, leaner cheeses, and cottage cheese)
• Consume fresh vegetables and fruits several times a day, as well as whole grains, seeds, and nuts
• Prefer fibre-rich grains and pseudo-grains that contain more vitamins and minerals
• Include legumes (beans, peas, lentils) in your diet on a daily basis

Our Everyday Choices

Little by little, we are becoming more aware that our choices and decisions truly have power. There are many of us, and together we can have a real impact on the world around us and on the way things unfold. Let’s take a closer look at how this applies to our diet and health – because the very same principle is at work here, too.

Today, many people already know that the condition of our microbiome affects the functioning of our immune system and our overall health; that the gut-brain axis exists; and that after taking antibiotics, replenishing beneficial bacteria with probiotics may become necessary.

What fewer people realize, however, is just how strongly our everyday diet influences the state of our microbiome. A diet rich in a wide variety of plant-based ingredients – and therefore in many different types of fibre – is essential to creating the right conditions for the beneficial microbes living inside us to thrive.

And for that to happen, we need to have access to this wide variety of ingredients – and this is exactly where you can make a difference.

So what do we actually gain from eating more diversely?

• A richer microbiome and a healthier body
• More diverse crops in agriculture, supporting greater biodiversity
• A richer and more varied selection on supermarket shelves

Sounds pretty good to us. 🙂
In our restaurants, we aim to make your everyday choices easier by cooking for you with a wide variety of ingredients, offering diverse and colourful meals. Your only job is to choose from them.