hemp hearts
Tons of nutrients and healthy fats, makes other things like parfaits or cereal more satiating
coconut milk
Good source of various minerals and electrolytes and healthy fats. Somewhat satiating drink since it has about 50 calories a glass from fat content
nutritional yeast
Mega-dose levels of the B vitamins and good as a thickener and cheese substitute. Great with eggs
None, the term super food is marketing term with no basis in science
When i mentioned “legit superfoods”, I was sort of getting at the unsexy normal stuff that available, common (or uncommon due to lack of recognition), and generally understood to be nutritionally wholesome
oh in that case oats. they are highly comparable to Quinoa but you know abudnant and cheap.
it has about 50 calories a glass from fat content
My glass? Your glass? Andre the Giant’s glass?
I might mean cup (250mL)
Too late I already drank glass.
hopefully it wasn’t Mr. Giant-sized for the good of your glasshole
Buckthorn, it is full of vitamins
Ginger, it is a painkiller
Nasturtium + Horseradish, you can make a real antibiotic from these
How would one consume buckthorn? That stuff is super invasive around here, so there’s a ton of it around. Leaves? The berries?
Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle berry) makes sour food taste sweet. If that’s not a super food (a food with a super power), I don’t know what is.
Potatoes.
I agree with ‘superfoods not being real’. The only thing that I can definitely say qualifies somewhere close to a ‘superfood’ is black pepper and long pepper.
Black pepper and long pepper have a compound called piperine. Piperine drastically improves nutrient absorption.
Curcumin/Turmeric is often taken as a supplement, however, it has a very very low bioavailability (like 1% gets absorbed or something – don’t quote me on that). So it is commonly paired with black pepper, or more distinctly, piperine. Piperine increases its bioavailability by 2,000%!! Which literally means that you absorb 2,000% more than if you were to take curcumin/turmeric by itself!
I am unsure how it affects other nutrients, but I am certain that it also improves absorption. There are products that sell piperine itself. Most notably Bioperin.
WARNING: Piperine also increases absorption of certain drugs as well. Do not take piperine with any drug unless you know what you’re doing!
Incredible tip about the pepper, gonna have to invest in some peppercorns [rolls up sleeve]
Get the long pepper. The flavour is miles ahead of regular pepper!
Multivitamins
More looking for foods that double as multivitamins
Moringa
Where get?
Quinoa
Eggs
