Jamie Oliver is right – this is how much fruit and veg we really should be eating every day

Jamie Oliver’s Rallying Cry for “Beans, Beans, Beans”

Jamie Oliver has spent decades waging culinary campaigns against poor nutrition, from removing Turkey Twizzlers from school canteens to championing Britain’s sugar tax. But while promoting his new book, Eat Yourself Healthy, the chef distilled his latest health message into three words: “Beans, beans, beans.” He explained the reasoning during an interview at his London headquarters, telling The Times, “Tim Spector is right. They are really good …

Jamie Oliver is right – this is how much fruit and veg we really should be eating every day

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has stirred debate by calling the familiar five-a-day message “a lie”. Speaking to the Times, he argued that the real health benefits of fruit and vegetables only start to add up at seven, eight or even 11 portions a day. He’s not wrong that more is better. Research shows us that the more servings of fruit and veg we eat per day, the more benefits we see to our health. But the story of how five servings became the sta…