Nutrivore Newsletter

Nutrivore Newsletter

Zinc Fun Factsheet and Four-Bean Cassoulet

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Sarah Ballantyne, PhD
Apr 16, 2026
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👉In this week’s Nutrivore Newsletter, we talked about: how zinc improves skin health; black beans as a good source of zinc and many other nutrients; how to calculate the Nutrivore Score of your own recipes or meal plan; the adaptation period to a sudden increase in fiber and how to minimize the farty effects of beans; and I shared my Four-Bean Cassoulet recipe.

Because this week’s Free Newsletter highlighted zinc as an important nutrient for skin health, I’m sharing my Zinc Fun Factsheet 2-page download which summarizes all of the ways that zinc improves our health along with how much we need by demographic group. And because black beans (and beans in general) are a good source of zinc, I’m sharing one of my absolute favorite ways to prepare them, a downloadable version of my Four-Bean Cassoulet recipe, a bean-forward French stew.

📥Just for paid subscribers, your Companion Downloads this week are:

  • Zinc Fun Factsheet - This 2-page PDF guide summarizes all the most important information about what zinc does, top food sources, and how much we need for each demographic group.

  • Four-Bean Cassoulet - A beautifully-designed PDF version of this week’s recipe that you can save or print out, to build your own personalized Nutrivore Cookbook week by week.

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