It’s among the hottest trends in the food world today – magically colourful dishes and drinks that are as bewitchingly beautiful as they are incredibly tasty and nutritious.

Now, Kat Odell – a food journalist, author (Day Drinking), and entrepreneur who started selling her popular unicorn nut milks in 2015 – celebrates the unicorn food movement with a rainbow of 75 recipes.

The recipes are vegan. The ingredients are all-natural and super-nutritious, from fresh fruits and vegetables to superfoods like flax, coconut oil, spirulina, chia, and bee pollen. And the offerings are exactly the kinds of hyper-colourful, super-fun dishes that healthy-forward eaters love, including gently flavoured nut milks, grain bowls loaded with vegetables, probiotic breakfast custards, toasts with slathers and spreads.

This is health food as never seen before, filled with joy, and words can’t do the colours, the (all-natural) sprinkles, the whimsical decorative touches justice – the deep glowing yellow of a Frozen Turmeric Lassi, the greens of Soba Noodles with Arugula and Arugula Pesto, the intense oranges and purples of Sweet and Sour Radish Tacos, the tie-dye rainbow effect of Veggie Summer Sunset Rolls with Pineapple Kimchi, and the pastels of Chamomile Milk Tea Pudding with Fennel and Pistachios and Strawberry Pink Peppercorn Ice Cream Sticks.

Filled with dazzling full-colour photographs, published in a package as special as the dishes themselves – glittering unicorn horn and debossed, textured cover, with the pop of colour that comes from top-staining the pages’ edges – Unicorn Food is a cookbook of real beauty, in the look, in the recipes, in the spirit of the food itself.