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🌱 How Plant30 Works

The 30-plant goal

Eating 30 different plants per week feeds a diverse gut microbiome. The goal resets every Monday at midnight in your local timezone.

What counts as a plant?

The list follows a broad dietary-diversity model, not a strictly botanical one — mushrooms and other fungi count too, and minimally processed plant foods like tofu or nut butter count alongside whole produce.

• Any vegetable, fruit, grain, legume, nut, seed, or fungus (mushrooms, nutritional yeast) = 1 point
• Herbs, spices, and teas = ¼ point
• Variety distinctions count separately (red onion ≠ white onion)
• Same-species items don't double count — you'll still see fresh onion and onion powder (or fresh garlic and garlic powder) as separate items you can each check off, but if you check both in one week, your total only counts it once, at the higher point value. So that pair counts as 1 point (the whole food's value), not 1¼ or 2
• Each unique plant counts once per week, regardless of how often you eat it
• Mineral seasonings like salt (including specialty salts, e.g. kala namak) aren't on the list — they don't add to plant diversity

Colour coding

• Green — standard plant from the master list
• Amber — your custom plant (not yet on the master list)
• Purple — your suggested plant, now adopted into the master list ⭐

Fermented foods

Most fermented foods count as their base plant rather than getting their own tick — for example, sauerkraut = cabbage, kimchi = cabbage + radish, kombucha = the tea it's brewed from. Miso is on the list directly (under Legumes) and automatically resolves to the same plant as Edamame/Soybeans, so checking either — or both — only counts once for the week.

Adding custom plants

Tap + to add any plant not on the master list, pick a category and whether it's a ¼-point item, and it'll appear under that category tab as well as under "My Custom." Custom plants are visible only to you and aren't checked against the master list or filtered in any way — the goal is variety of whole plant foods, so use your own judgment on what's worth adding. Ron can promote popular ones to the standard list.

Install on iOS

On iOS, PWA installation only works through Safari. All other iOS browsers — Chrome, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Edge, Brave, DuckDuckGo, etc. — either omit "Add to Home Screen" entirely or create a plain bookmark that reopens in Safari anyway. This is an Apple platform restriction, not a Plant30 issue.

1. Copy the Plant30 URL from whatever browser you're using
2. Open Safari and paste the URL
3. Tap the Share button (box with arrow)
4. Tap "Add to Home Screen"
5. Tap "Add"

Install on Android

1. Open Plant30 in Chrome
2. Tap the three-dot menu
3. Tap "Add to Home screen"

Install on desktop

In Chrome or Edge, click the install icon (⊕) in the address bar.

Help v1.4 · Plant30 v1.0.0

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