In celebration of Love Your Gut Week 2026, six new recipes highlight accessible, gut-friendly ingredients like beans, wholegrains, vegetables, and nuts, aiming to make digestive health both enjoyable and easy to incorporate into daily eating habits.
Love Your Gut Week 2026 is being marked with six new recipes built around ingredients that are widely available, easy to use and chosen for their gut-friendly appeal. The collection centres on fibre, plant diversity and everyday cooking, with Love Your Gut dietitian Jo Travers highlighting how beans, wholegrains, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs and fruit can all play a part in supporting the gut microbiome. Nutrition guidance from University Hospitals also points to fibre, prebiotics, probiotics, polyphenols and omega-3 fatty acids as useful parts of a varied diet for digestive health.
Among the savoury dishes is roast Savoy cabbage with chermoula, a colourful plate of cabbage wedges served with mixed grains and red pepper. Love Your Gut says the dish is meant to feel both simple and satisfying, while Travers notes that cabbage belongs to the cruciferous vegetable family and brings fibre alongside natural plant compounds associated with gut and digestive support.
Another recipe pairs Madras-spiced cod with sweet potato wedges and a mash made from peas, broad beans and cannellini beans. The organisation says it is designed as a practical midweek meal, and Travers describes cannellini beans as a handy store-cupboard ingredient that adds fibre, plant protein and variety. The beans are blended with peas and broad beans to create a creamy base, while the cod keeps the dish balanced with lean protein.
For something more comforting, the collection includes a green spelt risotto with broccoli, peas, mushrooms, tomatoes, spinach, Parmesan and mixed seeds. Travers says spelt offers a nutty flavour, a firmer texture and useful plant nutrients, including fibre and magnesium, while also helping to widen the range of grains eaten through the week.
There is also a chicken tagine with onion, courgette, spinach, almonds, pomegranate seeds, mint, coriander and wholewheat couscous. Love Your Gut presents it as special enough for the weekend but straightforward enough for a weekday, and Travers says wholewheat couscous gives the dish a fibre-rich base while adding B vitamins and minerals.
For dessert, the recipe set includes lemon, blueberry and chia cheesecake pots made with porridge oats, milk, cream cheese, blueberries, mint and an oat biscuit crumb. Travers says chia seeds can help create a creamy texture while adding fibre and plant-based omega-3 fats, and she points to blueberries for their polyphenols, compounds that have been studied for their role in supporting a healthy balance of gut bacteria.
The final recipe is a family-friendly banana and carrot loaf with wholemeal flour and dark chocolate chips. Travers says bananas are an easy way to add fibre and prebiotic compounds, while the carrot contributes natural sweetness and extra plant variety. Cocoa, she adds, contains polyphenols that have also been studied for their potential role in supporting gut bacteria.
Love Your Gut says the aim is to make gut-friendly eating feel realistic, appealing and enjoyable rather than restrictive. The wider message is familiar across current nutrition guidance: a more diverse diet, especially one that includes more plants, wholegrains and other fibre-rich foods, can help people build better everyday habits without sacrificing flavour.
Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical judgment, advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
