Watch what you drink your coffee with

Dr Amati warns against eating eggs alongside caffeine, as doing so apparently impedes micronutrient absorption. But it’s not just eggs that might become less nutritious with your morning latte.

The tannates in coffee also make it harder to benefit from plant-based (non-heme) iron, which you get from soy products, chickpeas and nuts. Caffeine can also boost the amount of calcium you excrete in your urine (which means having less available to strengthen your bones). All of this doesn’t mean that you absolutely need to cut out coffee at breakfast but if you’re already anaemic, vitamin D deficient or looking to simply boost your mineral absorption, it might be worth having your coffee before or after a meal.

Pair your eggs with avocado

Pair fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K with small portions of dietary fats to help your body dissolve and absorb them, Brady advises. That means, for example, having a few slices of avocado with your eggs benedict.

Drizzle lemon juice on spinach to unlock the iron

Pairing vitamin C-rich citrus or peppers with iron-rich plants like lentils, kale and spinach can aid nutrient absorption. A paper in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences explains that animal-based iron doesn’t usually need much help with being put to use, but that non-heme iron sources (plants) are aided by the ascorbic acid found in citrus, which it calls a “powerful enhancer of nonheme iron absorption” which can “reverse the inhibiting effect of substances such as tea.”

Avoid coffee at breakfast and other tips for making your diet super nutritious, according to nutritionists