Renowned nutrition scientist Walter Willett is fed up with dessert. Not all desserts, just the bad ones. “At the vast majority of restaurants, there is nothing but various combinations of refined flour, sugar, and unhealthy fats” on the menu, he says.

“From a large amount of research, we know that nuts, fruit, and dark chocolate are some of the healthiest foods we could eat,” he says. So for several years now, he’s been challenging chefs to redesign dessert to focus on these foods, which he calls the Three Pleasures.

Why these three? Fruit offers vitamins and minerals that help protect against heart disease and diabetes, he says. Nuts are full of healthy, satisfying, unsaturated fats that research has shown to predict lower