SuperFoods to the Rescue

Nobody does it better than Mother Nature.  Makes me feel sad for the rest.

What is a superfood?  Great question.

Wikipedia defines a Superfood as the following:  Superfood is a term used by various people in a wide variety of manners and contexts. For example, it is sometimes used to describe food with high phytonutrient content that may confer health benefits as a result. 


Another common definition is that a superfood is one which has high concentrations of essential nutrients with proven health benefits, with few properties generally considered to be negative (such as being high in saturated fats or artificial ingredients, food additives or contaminants). 


An often-cited example of a superfood (or superfruit) is blueberries. They contain high concentrations of various antioxidants, anthocyanins, vitamin C, manganese, and dietary fiber, they have a compound, pterostilbene, which acts to protect the heart in the same way as cholesterol-lowering drugs, are low in calories and are most often organically grown.


So, in an nutshell, superfoods pack the most amounts of nutrients per calorie.  


What superfoods should you buy?  Are you going to have to spend a fortune?  You might be surprised to learn that traditional, well-known foods known to be quite healthy, may be the best of the "superfoods" after all - and are generally cheaper and more widely available. Gogi berries are one of the frequent members of many "superfoods lists" online - and are hard to find and quite expensive.  However, goji berries do not contain anything not found in blueberries, while carrots are even more healthy than gojis. 

British researchers stress that it is as healthy to eat apples and oranges as expensive, exotic foodstuffs often cited as being superfoods.  One can get more nutrients from broccoli or spinach than from a shot of wheatgrass. 

So what do we like?  Our list for the CLARIFY Top 10 Superfoods are:

Salmon

Green Tea

Berries

Almonds

Spiniach

Plain Greek Strained Yogurt

Edemame

Tomatoes

Oranges

Chickpeas

Keep these nutrient dense, low calorie options in mind when filling your shopping cart at your next trip to the grocery market.