People think ice cream, wine and biscuits count toward their plant-based food consumption

<p><b>Dietitian <span class="mark87cowa18d">Mary</span>&nbsp;<span class="markoql66jdeq">McCreery</span></b>, says: “Eating a variety of plant foods, such as fruit, vegetables, wholegrains and even herbs and spices, has been proven to support good gut health and research has found that individuals who enjoy more than thirty different plant foods a week have a more diverse gut, compared to those who ate ten or fewer.“But it’s not just your gut that will benefit from more plant foods, as getting your servings of plant foods a week has also been shown to offer benefits for mood, weight and general health and wellbeing<i></i>.”&nbsp;</p><p><br> </p>