Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Eating starts with these 50 Superfoods

For those of you not familiar with the term Superfood, they are foods with special therapeutic value beyond calories and basic nutrients. We recommend many of the following to our clients for healing and prevention.

If tolerated, try to add one each week to your diet that you've never had before.
  1. Almonds
  2. Apples
  3. Asparagus
  4. Avocado
  5. Banana
  6. Blackberries
  7. Blueberries (wild)
  8. Bok choy
  9. Brazil nut
  10. Broccoli/Broccoli Sprouts
  11. Brown Rice
  12. Cauliflower
  13. Cherries (tart)
  14. Chocolate (70% cocoa or higher)
  15. Cod Liver Oil
  16. Coffee (unsweetened)
  17. Collard Greens
  18. Black Beans
  19. Brussels sprouts
  20. Edamame (boiled soybeans)
  21. Eggs (organic, DHA infused)
  22. Flaxseed (pulverized)
  23. Garlic
  24. Grapes
  25. Grapeseed Oil
  26. Kiwi
  27. Mushrooms (Shiitake)
  28. Mustard Greens
  29. Oats (steel-cut only)
  30. Olives/Olive Oil
  31. Onions
  32. Pomegranate
  33. Prunes
  34. Pumpkin (canned organic)
  35. Quinoa
  36. Salmon (wild caught)
  37. Sardines
  38. Scallops
  39. Soy Milk (organic unsweetened)
  40. Sunflower Seeds/Seed Butter
  41. Sweet Potato
  42. Tea (unsweetened)
  43. Tofu/Tempeh
  44. Tomato sauce
  45. Turkey Breast (nitrate-free)
  46. Walnuts
  47. Watercress
  48. Watermelon
  49. White Potato (baked)
  50. Yogurt (Greek)
Is there another food that should have made the top 50?
Leave in the comment box and we'll let you know if it belongs.

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