Add These Nutrient-Dense Superfoods To Your Diet

Superfoods are wonderfully health-promoting and nutritious natural foods given to us by Mother Nature. It’s a good idea to consume some on a daily basis.

The following article, which was first written and published on another website in 2008, explores some such superfoods and discusses their health benefits.

More Than 10 Superfoods To Add To Your Diet

What are superfoods? They are foods which we have discovered to be nutritionally potent, complete, dense and power-packed, with superb antioxidant, disease preventing, health promoting and even disease reversing properties.

Besides their wonderful nutritional and health giving effects, another great thing about such superfoods is that their nutrients are usually easily absorbed and used by the human body, often within minutes. It’s almost like instant nutrition.

Many health-conscious people today already embark on a potent superfoods diet to really reap the excellent health and vitality which it brings.

Typically, the currently known top superfoods fall into the following categories:
• Algae
• Berries
• Green foods, e.g. beet greens
• Herbs
• Mushrooms
• Seaweeds, e.g. Kelp
• Sprouts

Dr Richard Schulze, the great herbalist and natural healer, for example, has included the following superfoods in his Superfood Plus blend. He describes them as “nature’s blood transfusion”.

Dr Richard Schulze’s Superfoods

• Blue-Green Algae

• Chlorella (Broken-Cell) Algae – said to have almost 40 times the amount of protein found in soybeans, and contains a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, essential fatty acids, carotenoids and other nutrients

• Spirulina – high in protein, and one of the best sources of beta-carotene known

• Alfalfa Grass – very rich in vitamins and minerals

• Barley Grass – very rich in vitamins and minerals, and said to contain all the nutrients needed by Man

• Wheat Grass – very rich in vitamins, minerals and chlorophyll

• Purple Dulse Seaweed – one of the best known sources of digestible minerals

• Acerola Cherries – one of the best known sources of fully natural vitamin C complex i.e. includes important co-factors like bioflavonoids, hesperidin, rutin, etc.

• Lemon Peels – very rich in vitamin C and important co-factors

• Orange Peels – very rich in vitamin C and important co-factors

• Rose Hips – very rich in vitamin C and important co-factors

• Palm Fruits – one of the best known sources of vitamin E, which is a powerful antioxidant

• Beetroot – excellent blood builder

• Spinach Leaf – excellent blood builder

• Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Non-Fermentable Nutritional Yeast

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