Experts introduced Victorian diet to health conscious people.
Dr. Judith Rowbotham have found out people from mid-Victorian era, between 1850 and 1872 are more likely acknowledge as 'golden age of nutrition'. Rowbotham,from Univeristy of Plymouth, co-authored a study with Dr. Paul Clayton, of Institute of Food, Brain and Behavior.
Dr Rowbotham explained to MailOnline that healthier people with stronger immune system were alive in this era even though they ate almost 5,000 calories a day.
The researchers recognize vegetable-rich diet, eating of whole meal bread which has yeast that improve immune system, fewer intake of strong alcohol and keeping away from sugar are basically the reasons of their one of a kind healthiness.
Dr Rowbotham said: 'They ate onions, watercress, cabbage, beetroot, Jerusalem artichokes, apples.
'You could get a huge bunch of watercress for next to nothing - there were watercress trains that came into the cities.
'Cherries were known as a poor man's fruit. A punnet of cherries, that you would pay £6 for in Marks and Spencer's these days, you could get then for a ha'penny [a coin the equivalent to half a penny].
'They ate scraps of meat from the bone, boiling the bones to get all the nutrients. And fish like herring, mackerel and cod roes,' she added.
'The bread had a mouldy yeast in it that was beneficial for the immune system.'
Other foods that Victorians usually ate are fruits including apples, cherries and plums. Those times potatoes and big cuts of meat were more luxurious so were consumed less normally. Sugar was a lavishness eaten only by the rich classes. Working group Victorians did not smoke or sip alcohol except weak, yeast-rich beer.
So she advised people to return to Victorian-era nutritional values; home cooking rather than processed food and importance on fruit and vegetables were reasons they had healthier health expectancy than people had now.
