Superfoods

Iristxo

Do you eat any of these? And if so, how much, how often, and for what benefits exactly?

Spirullina
Chlorella
Kelp
Aloe vera (juice)
Turmeric

I am toying with the idea of adding some of these superfoods to my diet but first I want to test the waters a bit. I know someone who is taking a turmeric capsule eveyday, so far she can´t point to any noticeable health benefits but who knows.

Thanks in advance

brianthebard

Turmeric tablets are probably only going to help if you have a condition that they can help with, for instance inflammation issues. superfood is just a marketing label, there's no standards that food has to fulfill to be labelled as such. Some of the foods which have been called superfoods might be better for you than others, but its been applied to so many different things at this stage that its (even more) meaningless.

El_Dangeroso

Agree with BtB, only need to take curcumin or tumeric if you have something like arthritis. There's no other advantage as far as I can see.

The word superfood is a pet peeve of mine, just because it always relates to weird things that never ever formed a part of a normal diet, so I'm suspicious that we'd start suddenly requiring it now unless we really can't get those nutrients from food. Don't think there's anything in spirulina et. al. that's not obtainable from more readily available, and lets face it, better tasting sources.

Having said that I could be entirely mistaken and these could be the true secret to a long and healthy life, as far as I know the research hasn't shown that yet and at the end of the day it's just food, not magic.

If I was to call anything a superfood it would be organic calf liver:



Truly nature's multivitamin!

Edited to say: I like kelp granules, they are a good source of iodine if you don't eat seaweed.

tufterween

There are lots of other superfoods that aren't "advertised" as super foods such as blueberries, some nuts, cranberries (a lot of berries) - and therefore won't cost as much

brianthebard

Agree about the liver, I've become interested in eating it after recently seeing the nutritional profile. Are the other commonly available livers comparable to calf liver in terms of vitamins and stuff?

El_Dangeroso

brianthebard wrote: »

Agree about the liver, I've become interested in eating it after recently seeing the nutritional profile. Are the other commonly available livers comparable to calf liver in terms of vitamins and stuff?

Pretty much all livers are good eatin. Except for polar bear liver of course!

The reason I single out beef liver is because of the copper content, copper is really difficult to get from elsewhere.

Liver is good for once or twice a week but no more due to the incredible amount of preformed A. Not that you'd probably want to eat it more than that tbh..

brianthebard

yeah it wouldn't be my favourite cut, but I found that wrapping some sausage meat with liver in rashers and baking it is pretty good. I had a liver in whiskey cream sauce cooked last week that smelt fantastic but the gas was going while cooking (didn't realise it) and it came out pretty much raw so I threw it since I couldn't finish it off.

Iristxo

I agree with all that you have said, I know there´s lots of things that can be labelled as superfood including eggs, butter, coconut oil and countless others. The "superfoods" bit was only a "name" for the thread. I am interested in benefits like the iodine in kelp or the magnesium in wakame (a type of sea weed), to boost some nutrients in my diet, that´s all.

Iristxo

Temple_Grandin wrote: »

Pretty much all livers are good eatin. Except for polar bear liver of course!

The reason I single out beef liver is because of the copper content, copper is really difficult to get from elsewhere.

Liver is good for once or twice a week but no more due to the incredible amount of preformed A. Not that you'd probably want to eat it more than that tbh..

I actually love liver, specially the veal one you an get in Spain. But again, I limit the consumption to once or twice a week, unfortunately.