Superfoods make you superhuman, right? Well, superfoods may not dramatically extend your life, but they certainly add flavor, variety, and
some health benefits to your diet (at least compared to the chips and dip you may have had for dinner last night).
Superfoods is a general, unscientifically defined word that encompasses a lot of ingredients, some exotic (like açaí) and others more ordinary (like blueberries). They’re generally high in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. We don’t know whether the phenomenon is all marketing hype. But here’s a fact: Unprocessed, whole foods are good for you. So try out this menu, which has a day’s worth of recipes (and some extras for further exploration). Report back on your superpowers.
RECIPES
Breakfast
Açaí-Blueberry Smoothie
Superfood Quotient: Just by invoking the word açaí, your brain grows larger. Both blueberries and açaí berries are loaded with cancer-fighting antioxidants.
Whole Wheat–Oat Pancakes
Superfood Quotient: Your morning pancakes have never been so empowering. This whole-grain-filled version will get you through the day.
Pomegranate Molasses–Maple Syrup
Superfood Quotient: Add antioxidant-packed pomegranate molasses to maple syrup, and you’ve got a pancake topping that’s sweet, tangy, and healthy.
Lunch
Warm Spinach Salad with Honey-Garlic Vinaigrette
Superfood Quotient: With vitamins A, B, C, and iron from the spinach and antioxidants from the garlic, you could get your superfood fill with this salad alone. And you’ll win at chess.
Lentil Hummus Wrap with Pomegranate Molasses
Superfood Quotient: This recipe will make you younger (antiaging lentils), less swollen (anti-inflammatory turmeric), and disease-free (antioxidant-filled pomegranate molasses).
This article is trendy and dumb. Eat a healthy diet, lots of fruit, veg, and nuts, for animal protein fish first, light on the meat heck it'll taste good, and you might live longer.
There's no such thing as a Superfood.
I agree, I think that the problem in America is that we tend to latch onto food trends and try to cherry pick what we think is healthy but we don't pay attention to the whole picture...I think that if we improved our food system as a whole(read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore Dilemma) we would be a lot healthier.
Everything in moderation.
I think this article was a little tongue and cheek if you ask me :) If taken as such it was cute.
I thought it was a really good article. I brought a different way to look at eating food. I don't want to take medicine my whole life. :-)
I thought their 'superfood' menu had presented the idea of eating more nutrient rich foods with a fresh point of view. And I am always looking for new ways to cook our thrice weekly fish and to prepare our daily oats, etc., so I appreciated their efforts to add to the 'good food' dialogue. In fact, I signed up at Chowhound to find some more new ideas like these for our 'healthy living' diet that the doctors put us on!
I can't stand most superfoods, but I love blueberries. Smoothies, muffins, Crumbles, or just plain...frozen or dried when fresh aren't available. I get mine at www.buyorganicberries.com... they ship organic berries fresh from their farm. They are truely delicious.