Updated 23rd April 2024
What have ZOE members been eating this year?
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Every day, tens of thousands of ZOE members record their dietary habits in detail. This gives us a fascinating glimpse into people’s meals.
So, as we hurtle toward 2024, we thought we’d dig in and see what you’ve been eating this year.
We trawled through more than 100 million entries to uncover what you've been up to in your kitchen.
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ZOE members’ top 5 recipes of 2023
So, what have you been cooking up? Below are the top five recipes logged by our members over the past year.
Each entry has a ZOE link. If you’re a ZOE member, click it to see how the recipe scores for you.
If you’re not a member, and you’d like to learn how the program works, you can start by taking our free quiz.
1. ZOE almond cookies
Logged: 5,177 times
Preferences: vegan, gluten-free
Ingredients: dark chocolate, ground almonds, olive oil, pecan nuts, salt, flaxseeds, brown sugar, water
From: ZOE’s Instagram
2. ZOE granola
Logged: 4,623 times
Preferences: vegan
Ingredients: almond butter (crunchy), almonds, coconut oil, desiccated coconut, psyllium fibre supplements, honey, oat bran, pecans, salt, flaxseeds, chia seeds, mixed seeds, ground cinnamon
From: ZOE’s Instagram
3. Homemade vegetarian chili
Logged: 3,651 times
Preferences: vegan, gluten-free
Ingredients: black beans, canned tomatoes, carrots, celery, coriander, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, onions, peppers, pinto beans, salt, vegetable stock, red wine vinegar, chili powder, cumin, paprika, oregano, bay leaf
From: Cookie and Kate
4. Honestly Healthy's chia seed porridge
Logged: 2,976 times
Preferences: vegan
Ingredients: unsweetened almond milk, flaked almonds, chia seeds, ground cinnamon
From: Red Online
5. Avocado and black bean eggs
Logged: 2,833 times
Preferences: vegetarian and gluten-free
Ingredients: avocado, canned black beans, canned tomatoes, fresh coriander leaves, eggs, garlic, lime, red chili peppers, cumin seeds, rapeseed oil
From: BBC Good Food
ZOE members’ top 10 vegetables
Next up: veggies. These are the most popular vegetables, according to our members.
Now, the eagle-eyed among you will notice that some of the “vegetables” in this list are really fruits or fungi. But colloquially, they’re considered veggies, so we’re going with that.
onion: logged 2,014,720 times
garlic: logged 1,718,784 times
avocado: logged 1,084,950 times
red pepper: logged 980,318 times
carrot: logged 958,883 times
cucumber: logged 822,599 times
mushrooms: logged 634,510 times
zucchini: logged 582,926 times
lettuce: logged 533,933 times
celery: logged 471,416 times
ZOE members’ top 10 fruits
And what were your favorite fruits?
tomatoes: logged 1,071,991 times
apples: logged 1,042,742 times
cherry tomatoes: logged 891,002 times
blueberries: logged 827,694 times
bananas: logged 793,864 times
raspberries: logged 792,950 times
strawberries: logged 572,248 times
satsumas, tangerines, and clementines: logged 303,185 times
pears: logged 297,091 times
lemons: logged 237,511 times
ZOE members’ top 10 nuts and seeds
At ZOE, we’re huge fans of nuts and seeds. They’re all packed with good fats, protein, fiber, and healthy plant chemicals.
Which did you enjoy most often?
almonds: 1,087,572
chia seeds: 765,697
pumpkin seeds: 670,628
walnuts: 619,874
sunflower seeds: 611,402
flax seeds: 362,319
pecans: 321,281
cashew nuts: 305,965
Brazil nuts: 279,432
sesame seeds: 278,381
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ZOE members’ top 10 beans
Beans are another underappreciated food group. They’re excellent for your health, chock full of fiber, and most importantly, delicious.
There’s a wonderful variety of beans to experiment with. Here’s what you logged most often:
green beans: 312,838
black beans: 221,472
butter beans: 138,184
red kidney beans: 121,317
baked beans: 106,063
cannellini beans: 93,305
pinto beans: 39,929
runner beans: 39,071
broad beans: 38,764
chickpeas: 22,658
This concludes our data deep dive for 2023. We hope some of these ingredients and recipes will inspire and delight you as we roll into 2024.
