What are the fewest separate foods you could eat and still have a healthy, balanced diet?

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Baked beans on toast
One of your five-a-day. Photograph: John Gollop/Alamy

What are the fewest separate foods you could eat and still have a healthy, balanced diet? Nancy Bamber, Ottawa

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