Nutritionists and dietitians say that grocery shoppers should make bee lines for the produce department and fill up their carts with a "rainbow" of various colored fruits and vegetables.

More so than any other foods, fruits and vegetables are loaded with phytonutrients, the antioxidant compounds that health experts believe help improve eyesight and ward off a laundry list of diseases and afflictions.

Here are the colors - and the fruits and vegetables - that the experts say should comprise the rainbow on your plate and the plates of your family:

•  Red - strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon and cherries;

•  Orange - carrots, citrus and melons;

•  Yellow - squash, bell peppers, corn and legumes;

•  Green - spinach, collards and broccoli;

•  Blue - blueberries, grapes and plums;

•  Purple - grapes, raspberries and eggplant.

To discover delicious dishes that incorporate the rainbow of colors, visit the new Nubella recipe repository and the popular Healthy Cooking Center. For example, the repository features:

•  nearly 150 recipes using beans;

•  about 70 squash recipes;

•  120 spinach recipes;

•  43 melon recipes;

•  more than 40 eggplant meals;

•  nearly 40 strawberry recipes;

•  sixteen recipes calling for plums.

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