The 28 Best Things to Eat, According to 10 Nutrition Experts
I asked registered dietitians and other nutrition specialists what they’d eat if they had to choose only a few foods. Here are their preferences (plus snacks!).
Stranded on a desert island, I could live off nothing but bread, bananas and broccoli. That’s what I say, anyway. My wife scoffs. What about protein? Hmm, beans, I suppose, sticking stubbornly to my B-inspired list. But I’m no nutritionist. And like many people, I’m often confused by the competing and conflicting claims about what we should eat.
So I reached out to 10 experts — registered dietitians with RD or RDN degrees, which are essentially the same, and other nutrition specialists — to see what foods they’d hope to have if stranded on a desert island. Well, actually I asked:
What handful of food items would you put at the top of your personal list of a core diet, if you had to choose?
Spoiler alert: Bananas didn’t make the list (which does not mean they’re not good for you). But the 28 items below (plus snacks!) represent a healthy selection to draw from and build upon for a healthy pattern of eating.
