Superfoods

What is a Superfood?

Superfood is the term given to a food that is particular high in nutrients – the vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other health giving components that make your body hum with vitality.

Common foods like salmon, brazil nuts, yoghurt, broccoli and blueberries are well known as superfoods. But as the world shrinks, nutrient rich foods from other cultures are getting noticed.

For Example, Maca Root Powder from South America is recognised for its beneficial effects upon the human endocrine system. Goji berries from the Goji triangle in Asia are high in Vitamin C and anti-oxidants, http://www.healthychoices.com.au/power-super-foods/organic-dulse-leaf.html sourced from Eastern Canada are high in iodine and other trace minerals not easily obtained from other sources.

Superfoods can be a useful addition to your diet. People living busy modern lives do not get the nutrients they need. Few people have time to prepare every meal they eat from scratch, meaning they miss out on all the fresh fruit and vegetables they need to obtain maximum nourishment.

The modern busy life also increases other risks to your nutritional health – factors like stress, caffeine, alcohol, fast food, cigarettes and recreational drugs all take their toll on creating toxins in your body.

Superfoods can be a healthier addition to the diet rather than popping a bunch of supplements in pill form. Superfoods are generally recognisable as food. Some can be eaten raw or fresh from the greengrocer eg, spinah, broccoli, blueberries and others have been sourced from organic growers and minimally processed (dried or powdered) so that maximum nutrition is preserved.

The human body needs a vast array of nutrients to work properly – some nutrients must have others present in order to be assimilated at all. Take for example, calcium. To absorb calcium properly our bodies require the presence of the mineral magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, boron, copper to name a few. Just taking a single supplement is not always the most effective remedy for nutritional imbalance.

Superfoods offer a complex ratio of nutrients in natural balance that can be properly assimilated by your body.