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You know what ? I was in the same situation from my childhood to 3 years and a half ago. I didn't know what food I should eat in order to have an optimal health, because of contradictory information.

Then I discovered personal development. 6 months later, from an excellent personal development website I have been used to, I discovered the first specialized independent nutrition website I met on the Internet.
Wow. When I think about this today, finding this website was amazing for my first real seeking about relevant information on food. I still consider it as the best natural health website on the French web.
Now it has done a complete video (1 hour) on "Who can be trusted in nutrition ? Analysis of several information sources". Maybe you should watch it with the Youtube automatic subtitles, if they're not too bad : http://www.naturacoach.com/blog-nutrition/qui-croire-pour-donner-des-conseils-en-nutrition/

My mind is now crystal clear about diet. I know all the traps on which we may fall, I know how to recognize bad to average content from good and great one, no matter the source : health professionals, food industry and it's lobbies, scientific studies, medias, national recommendations, friends and family, Internet, books...

In a nutshell, I understood why Oscar Wilde wrote : "Everything popular is wrong."

I'll recommend you to try to find such websites in your country, if you're lucky enough you may find them :) Otherwise there is probably many good websites in English, but I've not sought them for now. I give you 3 of my best Internet sources (all in French, sorry) :

• http://www.julienvenesson.fr/
  
• http://www.nutriting.com/
  
• http://www.lanutrition.fr/
  
  The second one has 7 lessons for beginners, there is a very nice chance you appreciate them as they are for me the MUST READ in order to go in a right direction : https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nutriting.com%2Fcomprendre-la-nutrition%2Fla-nutrition-en-7-lecons%2F&edit-text=
  With Google Translate this may be readable for you ^^
  
  You already have a better diet than most people in industrialized countries, congratulations ;) About magnesium, well, I don't think you can have enough of it by beans and fruits. There is a way to quantify your inputs : you can write down all that you have eaten and drunk (water isn't important) for 3 days (with quantities) and put it here : https://cronometer.com/
  Then you will have a report of the 3 days average for each nutriment.
  
  Here is an example for one day : http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844554.png ; http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844608.png ; http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844675.png
  When you select an item in the list, the breakdown is shown for this item, like for the whole day :) If you want to go, just ask me for the settings for the micronutriments, as the recommended ones are based on national FDA recommendations, which aren't the best source.
  
  From the book Paléo Nutrition : http://www.amazon.fr/Pal%C3%A9o-Nutrition-Julien-Venesson/dp/2365490832
  
  As for magnesium, you must know that the more calcium you eat, the less magnesium is absorbed by your intestine (1). In order to have enough magnesium, you have to increase your inputs to at least 420 mg/day, and decrease your inputs of calcium to a maximum of 550 mg/day, as 520 mg are recommended by the WHO (2). Dairy products are too rich in calcium for keeping inputs under that maximum (this is actually one of their numerous drawbacks), so I suggest you to remove them or at least keep one portion per day of a high-quality, organic, goat or ewe product. You can replace them with organic eggs and oleaginous fruits for example (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts...). This is one simple action you can take now :)
  
  For magnesium, buckwheat is a great choice (230 mg per 100 g dry, can be taken in large quantities, no known nutritional drawbacks (unlike almost all grains), a lot of advantages).
  
  (1) University of Maryland. Medical Center. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Guide.
  
  (2) "Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition", Second Edition, 2004. World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Page 68.