Healthy cooking: Susan Jane White’s plant-based recipe for marmalade butter beans is great for gut health

Marmalade butter beans. Photo: Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White

Experts rarely agree on anything. But eating 30 different plant-based foods a week has become a solid cornerstone of agreement within the scientific community.

“Plant-based” includes beans, veg, fruit, legumes, seeds, nuts and rice from Mother Nature’s soil, advises gastroenterologist Dr William Bulsiewicz. Our microbiome benefits from as much variety and excitement as possible (erm, so do our taste buds).