Superfoods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood) are all the rage these days. With my doctor's opinion that I have a "wheat allergy" (or as he calls it: a wheat incompatibility), I've been gravitating towards other foods these days.

So far, I've read numerous lists that contain:

* Beans
* Blueberries
* Broccoli
* Oats
* Oranges
* Pumpkin
* Salmon
* Soy
* Spinach
* Tea (green or black)
* Tomatoes
* Turkey
* Walnuts
* Yogurt
* Açaí
* The Allium Family
* Barley
* Beans and Lentils
* Buckwheat
* Green Foods
* Hot Peppers
* Nuts and Seeds
* Sprouts
* Yogurt and Kefir

And about a hundred others.

Personally, I'm partial to lentils, broccoli, blueberries and mixed nuts. What others are there?

~String

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Proso.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proso_millet

It doesn't have gluten and can replace wheat in some dishes.

Good for thickening soups. Has a somewhat bitter taste, goes well in a thick soup with cabbage and green lentils.
Can also be prepared similar as steamed rice.

quinoa is a high protein grain that can be sprouted. i make tabouli with it.

Off the top of my head:
-Raw Cacao beans
-Aloe Vera
-Goji Berries
-Flax/chia seeds
-Green powders like spirulina or chlorella
-Phytoplankton
-Any medicinal mushroom (reishi, chaga, shiitake, maitake, cordyceps for example)
-Camu Camu
-Maca
-Raw organic honey
-Bee pollen and royal jelly (fresh)
-Hempseed
-Seaweed

quinoa is a high protein grain that can be sprouted. i make tabouli with it.

I just got some of that at the deli mixed with almonds and jalapenos. AWESOME!!

This talks about the ABSPOWER 12, they are twelve power foods

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=nutrition&category=abs.diet&conitem=b72a99edbbbd201099edbbbd2010cfe793cd____

Raw wildflower honey
Flax seed oil...I drink it straight!
Parboiled rice
Raw almonds
Raw cashews
Tahini (sesame butter and lemon juice)
Fresh squeezed orange juice

Celiac? That's unfortunate. Borlaug might be to blame.


How the food is prepared and where it comes from is nearly as important as the food itself.

Superfoods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood) are all the rage these days. With my doctor's opinion that I have a "wheat allergy" (or as he calls it: a wheat incompatibility)
Have you tried Soba? Its a Japanese pasta made with gluten-free Buckwheat flour. Its much more filling than semolina pasta!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soba

That was fucking awesome. I quickly glanced through that list and almost shat myself. Good stuff. Seriously.

Chia seeds.
great for thickening up soups, in salads, in risotto...
basically, in anything really as it doesnt have much of a flavour.
awesome superfood though!!!
i'm currently cosuming it in my banana,yoghurt & berry breakfast shake...mmmmmmm yummmyyyyy

There are no super foods. Zip. Zero. Nil.

There are, instead, some foods that are good, and other foods that are not so good. The only thing super is variety. There are two main rules of healthy eating.

1. Eat only small amounts of the 'bad' foods. The four S's.
Saturated fat.
Sugars.
Salt.
Starch that has too little fibre.

2. For all the good foods, eat as wide a variety as possible.
Lots of different fruits, different vegetables of all colours, different nuts, high fibre starches such as wholemeal bread and brown rice, vegetable oils, and a wide variety of low fat animal proteins, such as diary products, eggs, red meat, poultry and fish.

It is the variety that is super. Not any specific food.

All that those types of "superfoods " give me is allot of GAS! :fart::itold:

Cliff Bars


amidoinitrite?

Peanuts.

50% fat, 25% protien

chocolate peanutbutter pie. Superest food EVER!!

With my doctor's opinion that I have a "wheat allergy" (or as he calls it: a wheat incompatibility)You're not missing out on anything. Grains are overrated. For starters, their protein is incomplete so they have to be carefully complemented with protein from nuts or seeds.

Why isn't meat on your list? It's the perfect source of nutrition for humans, the only carnivores in the Primate order and the apex predator of the entire global ecosystem. If you don't like killing animals, then eat milk and eggs.

At the end of the Paleolithic Era, when humans ate primarily meat, the life expectancy of an adult who had managed to survive the rigors of childhood was in the low 50s. After 8000 years of agriculture, as humans became dependent on a grain-based diet and only the wealthy could eat meat, in the Roman Empire the life expectancy had dropped into the low 20s.

I eat a cup of blueberries every morning, and I eat a salad more or less every other night, full of chickpeas, cucumber slices, onions, baby corn, spinach, grape-tomatoes, etc. (And on non-salad nights I eat some figs.) Other than that, I'm a carnivore. Well I do enjoy bread and pastry but that's just empty calories. And of course chocolate is a vegetable and I get plenty of that.

The one food with highest nutritive value relative to cost is the SPLIT PEA.

1. Eat only small amounts of the 'bad' foods. The four S's.
Saturated fat.
Sugars.
Salt.
Starch that has too little fibre.

Dark BROWN sugar is a wonderful food...about 15% molasses.

I use it to make lemonade.

brussel sprouts

Why isn't meat on your list? It's the perfect source of nutrition for humans,
Humans have far more in common with herbivores than carnivores.

Carnivores cant move their lower jaw from side to side...for grinding plants.

Carnivores dont sweat.

Carnivores have claws.

Carnivores lap liquids instead drawing them through the teeth.

Carnivores secrete high concentrations of hydrochloric acid for dissolving bones.

Carnivores have no ptyalin in their saliva for breaking down plant starches.

Carrots, fucking carrots.

I am getting healthier just by reading these lists. I use moderation in life and eat everything. Stop worrying and start living.

I must be behind the times because I haven't even heard superfoods until this thread.

Why isn't meat on your list? It's the perfect source of nutrition for humans, the only carnivores in the Primate order and the apex predator of the entire global ecosystem. If you don't like killing animals, then eat milk and eggs.

Statistically speaking, vegetarians have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and have longer life expectancies than those who eat a lot of meat. There's your perfect source of nutrition. :rolleyes:

Reminder: I'm not a vegetarian... but I recognize the laudable benefits of such a diet.

Carcano

You are making a non acceptable comparison between humans and other carnivores. The thing is that humans cook food, and have been doing so for longer than we have been Homo sapiens. Cooked meat is quite different to raw meat in terms of how we chew it and how we digest it, so the comparison to carnvores becomes kinda silly.

I repeat my earlier point. No super foods, but variety is super. Including variety of animal proteins consumed. The wide range of people's ideas for specific 'super' foods simply confirms the need for variety.

You are making a non acceptable comparison between humans and other carnivores. The thing is that humans cook food, and have been doing so for longer than we have been Homo sapiens.
You might be surprised how many stone age homo sapien societies included raw meat in their diet...read Captain Cook's journals for example. However the primary foods were plant based in most cases, so the points I mentioned remain.

I am familiar with the New Zealand Maori, the Fijian, and the Papua New Guinea society. All of them cooked their meat. Who were you thinking of?

In fact, we need to cook our meat. There are many diseases that are contracted by eating raw meat. Some are fatal.

I am familiar with the New Zealand Maori, the Fijian, and the Papua New Guinea society. All of them cooked their meat. Who were you thinking of?

In fact, we need to cook our meat. There are many diseases that are contracted by eating raw meat.
Havent you ever read of Pemican...the meat used wasnt cooked, it was dried.

As it could be stored for long periods this food was of great importance to the tribes of North America.

Carcano

Yes, I have heard of pemmican. It is tough to chew and tough to digest. A food of last resort.

It is a bit like those people who believe all foods should be eaten raw. Those who practise that philosophy always end up skinny. Why? Because the human body is not evolved for extracting calories from raw food.

So, one way of losing weight is to eat nothing cooked. You end up with exactly the same effect as living in a concentration camp. Slow starvation. I suppose that would sound attractive to those obsessed with weight loss.