Figure 1.

Nutritional fitness (NF) and underlying nutrients across diets. We here consider four different diets, control, ovo-lacto vegetarian, vegan, and methionine-restricted diets. For the definition of these diets, refer to the main text. (a) NFs of foods in a control diet, sorted in descending order. (b) NFs of foods in an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet, sorted in descending order. Given food i and nutrient j, ϕ_ij indicates the contribution of nutrient j to the NF of food i, as described in the main text. The specific value of ϕ_ij depends on diets. From each of the following foods in (c) to (f), ϕ_ij is plotted for the nutrients with ϕ_ij > 0.5 in any of the above considered diets: (c) maitake mushroom, (d) frozen immature lima beans, (e) almond, and (f) cherimoya. For each nutrient in (c) to (f), four ϕ_ij values from the four considered diets are presented sequentially in the following order: control (red), ovo-lacto vegetarian (green), vegan (blue), and methionine-restricted (purple) diets. In a given diet, if the NF of the food is >0.7, the top of ϕ_ij from that diet is dotted. In (d) and (f), some nutrients with intermediate ϕ_ij values are omitted for visual clarity, and all of the data can be found in Supplementary Data S1.