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If you're planning on getting a letter from the Queen on your 100th birthday, you might want to take some tips from the best

If you're planning on getting a letter from the Queen on your 100th birthday or setting a new Guinness record for being the world's oldest person, then you might want to take some tips from the best.

Here's the foods the world's oldest people credit for their long lives. Add them to your diet today … or maybe just cross your fingers for good luck and some quality genetics that'll keep disease at bay.

1. 'Booze' Ordinarily, we'd be the last ones to advocate consuming alcohol on a daily basis as a golden ticket to a disease-free, long life, but "a lot of boooze" is precisely what centenarian Pauline Spagnola from Plains Township, Pennsylvania, credits for her longevity. Unlike her beer- and wine-loving counterparts (below), Spagnola, who celebrated her 100th birthday this week, doesn't seem particularly fussy when it comes to choosing her favourite tipple. We'll have whatever she's having.

2. Secret Sardinian Soup

The Italian island of Sardinia is recognised as having some of the world's longest living people — and it's not just the sunshine and beautiful scenery that is credited for keeping them on earth longer than most. Dan Beuttner, author of The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People credits eating Minestrone soup that's packed with dried beans, fresh vegetables and herbs for helping the "world's longest lived family" keep sprightly.

3. Powerful plants

Beuttner says 90 percent of the world's oldest people's diets are plant-based foods – think whole wheat, fruits, vegetables and legumes.

4. Ramen

Misao Okawa, who was the world's oldest person when she died in April, credited Japanese staples, such as ramen noodles and beef stew, for getting to blow out 117 candles a month before she passed away. "Eating delicious things is a key to my longevity," Okawa told The Japan Times.

5. Bangers and mash

Four British sisters, aged between 93 and 101, have credited a typical British diet of things like beans on toast and bangers and mash, plus avoiding spicy foods, for their long lives. Veggies were also staples — they had to grow them in their gardens during the wars to supplement rations. “It was the way we were brought up -– I am positive of it," Gladys Camp, 96, told SWNS. "Today they have all spiced up things and I don’t think it does you any good."

6. Beer

You might have heard that too much booze will send you to an early grave, but Mark Behrends, who is regarded as America's oldest living man at 110, reckons his daily can keeps him young. “He always told everybody the reason he has lived so long is drinking one can of beer, every day at 3pm,” his daughter Lois Bassinger told the Omaha World-Herald. “He always joked that that was his medicine, since he takes very little medicine.”

7. Wine

"Wine drinkers live longer than non-wine drinkers but you can't drink more than a couple of glasses a day," Beuttner told MSNBC.

8. Goat's cheese

Another Sardinian secret is fresh goat's cheese, which has anti-inflammatory components believed to protect us from heart disease and Alzheimer's. Filomena Taipe Mendoza, a 116-year-old Peruvian woman, also credits goat's cheese, plus goat meat, sheep's milk and beans for her long lifespan. “Everything I cook comes from my garden,” says Mendoza, who raised nine children on her own — only three of which are still alive today. “I never had canned soft drinks."