The 7 ‘superfoods’ you should eat every week to stay healthy and live longer [Video]

WHETHER it’s trying to get our ‘five a day’ or aiming to eat 30 plants a week, many of us follow rules or checklists in order to eat healthily.

It can be helpful to have simple directives to aim for on a daily or weekly basis.

Fibre-rich foods like porridge, berries and nuts are just some of the foods experts recommend you eat across the weekCredit: Getty

But that doesn’t mean that building nutritious meals is an exact science.

For Duane Mellor, a registered dietitian and Aston Medical School lead for Nutrition and Evidence Based Medicine, it’s less about eating specific foods every day and more about “building patterns of different foods over weeks and months” that matters.

“The key is variety and include a range of foods and try to mix things up, eating just one food is not really good for anyone,” he explained.

Both he and Dr Pamela Mason, a nutritionist and adviser for the …