Rainbow Vegetable Soup

Why people make this soup

The “rainbow diet” idea — eating vegetables of many different colours every day — is well established in Western nutrition, and it turns out that traditional Chinese food therapy has long shared the same logic. Each colour family of vegetables carries different phytonutrients and different food-therapy associations: greens for detoxification, reds for antioxidants, orange-yellows for eye health and slowing ageing, purple-blacks for heart protection, and whites for calming and nourishing. Nourilo put those ideas together in this simple, everyday soup using accessible ingredients: fuzzy melon (light green), carrot (orange-red), corn (yellow), seaweed (dark green-black), and garlic (white-purple). The result is a mild, naturally sweet soup that is easy on the stomach and pleasant for the whole family.