Superfoods 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.
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
This talks about the ABSPOWER 12, they are twelve power foods http://www.menshealth.com/cda/artic...item=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.
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.
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.
