Making your plate colorful is an easy habit for covering the variety of nutrients — macro and micro — your body needs: each colour family travels with its own, from the folate of leafy greens through the carotenoids of reds and oranges and the anthocyanins of purples, to the gentler carbohydrates and flavonoids of whites and browns (Minich 2019 — sources). The dots count the colour families on the plate — a marker of variety, never a score.