Ministry of Health consumption guidelines

The Ministry of Health recommend that New Zealanders should eat five or more servings of fruit or vegetables every day. Vegetables.co.nz promotional material is based on this recommendation. All vegetables, including potatoes, are included in this recommendation.

Ideally this means three or more serves of vegetables and two or more serves of fruit a day.
The link between health and vegetable consumption is even more compelling with vegetables other than fruit – hence the suggested ratio of 3:2. The Heart Foundation recommends that those at risk for heart disease should eat 8 serves a day.