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sprouts. More about sprouts and microgreens in a moment or two.
I also believe that you should use color as your guide. Make sure that you eat a wide variety of colorful foods. If you’re only eating berries then you need to find green, yellow, paler colors and purple to balance it out. Make your plate (and your smoothie ingredients!) colorful and you will be on the right track.
My firm belief is that wholefoods beat processed foods hands down. To rely only on expensive ‘superfoods’ that sound exotic, as the key to your health seems to me to be misguided. Start with the basics. Start with good organic or pesticide free, fresh local produce (do your best on as many counts as you can) and go from there.
Superfoods Are Within Your Reach
Me? I believe that superfoods are everywhere. A superfood is really something that is nutritionally dense and contains higher than average amounts of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fatty acids or amino acids.
If you have been eating store bought vegetables and fruit that have been treated with insecticides and selective herbicides and then cooked, perhaps your benefits will come from making the significant lifestyle change and eating raw organic vegetables in their whole form. Simple really.
Just making the switch from processed foods to wholefoods is your own move to superfoods. It’s all relative. The change will really reflect the superfood qualities that you’re after. The alchemy of ingredients of your unadulterated foods is definitely understated.
Furthermore, to call a couple dozen particular foods ‘superfoods’ may not actually be the belief you want to engender. Don’t you think it would be better to consider all your well-chosen foods that you decide to put into your body as superfoods? That’s the way I like to look at it.
You wouldn’t call a jar of pasta sauce a superfood but you may like to think of traditionally grown fresh ‘heirloom’ tomatoes (ones that are grown from seeds passed down from generation to generation, naturally pollinated) organic garlic and basil (picked just this morning) in that way. Should you put some exotic sounding or difficult to pronounce substance on a pedestal?
The grass is not always greener over there!
Should You Eat Superfoods?
For the purposes of this section, we’ll refer to the following foods, those often expensive and exclusive foods as ‘superfoods’. We can refer to the humble rest as the simple miracles of nature. LOL!
As I implied before, to me an apple is a superfood. A beautiful fresh fruit, vegetable, green leafy, nut, seed and so on. They’re all superfoods when you can eat them in their natural state and particularly when you can afford what seems to be in the modern age, the luxury of organic produce.
By the way, I have several smoothie recipes in the book that include using the wholefood raw (unroasted) cacao nibs. I am sure there are some out there who would say that it is one of those marketed superfoods. You would be right.
Let’s consider that the cocoa powder that we’ve probably all bought over the years is actually a processed food. For the purposes of this book I will refer to cocoa as the processed product and cacao as the unprocessed one so that we can have some clarity. The alkalizing process they put cacao through to produce cocoa takes out the bitterness and contributes to a reduction in the nutrition.
Depending on the processing of the cocoa some will still maintain a reasonable nutritional profile while, if it is heavily processed, it will remove almost all the antioxidants that this superfood is known for.
Cacao is an unadulterated product from the cacao bean. The powder is just one of the products. It’s been my experience in dozens of ‘chocolate green smoothie’ recipes that the bitterness of raw cacao powder can sometimes be overwhelming. For MANY testers it has been an acquired taste. Once they like it then they enjoy their choc green smoothie
I also believe that you should use color as your guide. Make sure that you eat a wide variety of colorful foods. If you’re only eating berries then you need to find green, yellow, paler colors and purple to balance it out. Make your plate (and your smoothie ingredients!) colorful and you will be on the right track.
My firm belief is that wholefoods beat processed foods hands down. To rely only on expensive ‘superfoods’ that sound exotic, as the key to your health seems to me to be misguided. Start with the basics. Start with good organic or pesticide free, fresh local produce (do your best on as many counts as you can) and go from there.
Superfoods Are Within Your Reach
Me? I believe that superfoods are everywhere. A superfood is really something that is nutritionally dense and contains higher than average amounts of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fatty acids or amino acids.
If you have been eating store bought vegetables and fruit that have been treated with insecticides and selective herbicides and then cooked, perhaps your benefits will come from making the significant lifestyle change and eating raw organic vegetables in their whole form. Simple really.
Just making the switch from processed foods to wholefoods is your own move to superfoods. It’s all relative. The change will really reflect the superfood qualities that you’re after. The alchemy of ingredients of your unadulterated foods is definitely understated.
Furthermore, to call a couple dozen particular foods ‘superfoods’ may not actually be the belief you want to engender. Don’t you think it would be better to consider all your well-chosen foods that you decide to put into your body as superfoods? That’s the way I like to look at it.
You wouldn’t call a jar of pasta sauce a superfood but you may like to think of traditionally grown fresh ‘heirloom’ tomatoes (ones that are grown from seeds passed down from generation to generation, naturally pollinated) organic garlic and basil (picked just this morning) in that way. Should you put some exotic sounding or difficult to pronounce substance on a pedestal?
The grass is not always greener over there!
Should You Eat Superfoods?
For the purposes of this section, we’ll refer to the following foods, those often expensive and exclusive foods as ‘superfoods’. We can refer to the humble rest as the simple miracles of nature. LOL!
As I implied before, to me an apple is a superfood. A beautiful fresh fruit, vegetable, green leafy, nut, seed and so on. They’re all superfoods when you can eat them in their natural state and particularly when you can afford what seems to be in the modern age, the luxury of organic produce.
By the way, I have several smoothie recipes in the book that include using the wholefood raw (unroasted) cacao nibs. I am sure there are some out there who would say that it is one of those marketed superfoods. You would be right.
Let’s consider that the cocoa powder that we’ve probably all bought over the years is actually a processed food. For the purposes of this book I will refer to cocoa as the processed product and cacao as the unprocessed one so that we can have some clarity. The alkalizing process they put cacao through to produce cocoa takes out the bitterness and contributes to a reduction in the nutrition.
Depending on the processing of the cocoa some will still maintain a reasonable nutritional profile while, if it is heavily processed, it will remove almost all the antioxidants that this superfood is known for.
Cacao is an unadulterated product from the cacao bean. The powder is just one of the products. It’s been my experience in dozens of ‘chocolate green smoothie’ recipes that the bitterness of raw cacao powder can sometimes be overwhelming. For MANY testers it has been an acquired taste. Once they like it then they enjoy their choc green smoothie
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