The Best Super Foods

Avocado

Avocado is an excellent superfood; nutritious, delicious and energy-boosting fruit. This fruit is very delicious and can be well integrated into any meal.

The good fats and nutrients found in avocado include lutein, oleic acid, folate, monounsaturated fats, vitamin E, and glutathione are good for the healthy heart. They also help in preventing diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and degenerative eye.

Kale 

As a superfood isn’t exactly news. It’s on every restaurant menu and ideas on how to use it in new and creative ways abound. But this oldie-but-goodie remains the most nutrient-dense veggie around. Raw in a salad or cooked in a casserole, it provides protein, iron, calcium and more vitamins and minerals than virtually anything you can pick up in the produce section.

Garlic 

Has had a reputation for centuries as a food that can ward off disease as well as vampires. We don’t know about the vampires, but it’s been shown that garlic is indeed an immune system supercharger, an antibacterial that can help protect you from colds, flu and other winter bugs. As an added benefit, it offers lots of nutrients and few calories.

Tomatoes

Contains a constellation of nutrients, including the carotenoid lycopene, that are believed to be important in reducing the risk of cancer. The antioxidants and anti-inflammatory elements in tomatoes provide a whole host of other benefits as well from reducing heart disease to improving the tone of your skin and the health of your teeth and gums.

Tea 

Is a healthy beverage too, with hundreds of healthy compounds including antioxidant flavonoids. They’re essential for staving off the effects of aging, including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. And each type of tea—black, green, white and oolong—has its own set of health benefits, so mix them up.

Honey 

Has traces of multiple vitamins and minerals that can be useful in boosting your immune system. It’s believed that unrefined honey produced in your own region can help inoculate you against some bacteria and allergens. It’s known as a soothing ingredient for coughs and sore throats.

Apples 

Are such a staple, especially in the fall and winter, that they seem almost boring and passe. Lose that thought! There’s reason for that old saw about “an apple a day …” They’re one of the most antioxidant-laden fruits out there, especially if you eat the peel. Be sure to buy organic though, because apples are often treated with pesticides.

 

Chocolates

Chocolate is the processed and sweetened food produced from cocoa. Cocoa is a good source of iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous and zinc. It also contains the antioxidants catechins and procyanidins.

Brand experts have sought to associate chocolate – and in particular dark chocolate – with the supposed health benefits of cocoa, which include protection against cancer and stress relief.

Broccoli

Like most high-performing greens, broccoli is high in carotenoids, which help your body rid itself of harmful compounds. Broccoli is the only green veggie with a high level of sulforaphane. Sulforaphane flushes cancer-causing chemicals from the body, making broccoli a champion among superfoods. Other benefits of broccoli include, Increased heart health, Possible increases in cognitive functioning, Better digestive health due to high fiber and many more.

Wallnut

One look at the cranium-like surface of the inner walnut, and you might guess the nut is good for brain health. You’d be right—walnuts are high in omega-3 fatty acids, which promote brain functions. Other benefits of walnuts are: Cancer-prevention through antioxidants and other ingredients, Lower blood pressure and they have High levels of popyphenolic antioxidants, which means as little as five or six nuts a day help free the body of free radicals

Black peper

Once used as a currency in some nations, it is now a common, inexpensive spice that brings digestive and other health benefits of black pepper to any recipe. Add a pinch of pepper to your meal and it will Increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach to improve digestion, Reduce intestinal gas, Promote urination, and they will Stimulate fat cell breakdown.