I'm A Celeb's 'basic' rice and beans diet 'lacks vitamins and minerals' , expert warns

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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here is returning this weekend and the stars will once again be surviving on a daily diet of rice and beans.

While some campmates, including Scarlett Moffatt and Fred Siriex, have attributed their weight loss to this infamous diet, one expert has issued a warning against it.Kiran Jones, a clinical pharmacist at Oxford Online Pharmacy, said: "We need to remember that, as well as not being a safe way to lose weight (the safe amount to lose is one to two pounds per week), it's not a nutritionally healthy diet to follow.

That's because the 'basic' 700-calorie diet consists of rice and beans, which, while not necessarily bad for you, as together they make a meal full of carbohydrates, fibre, essential amino acids and protein, they're lacking in several key vitamins and minerals."Kiran explained: "This vitamin, often found in foods like citrus fruits, is essential for immune function, skin health and wound healing.

Without consuming vitamin C regularly, you're more likely to feel tired, weak and irritable and, in cases of extreme deficiency, are more likely to develop scurvy.