If you enjoy some of the foods
marketed as superfoods, add them to your diet, but don't assume they're better for you than common fruits and vegetables, like blueberries, broccoli, dark chocolate, salmon, and other nutrient - dense options that are widely available and often don't come with a label.
Blueberries have been
marketed as a superfood and one of nature's most potent antioxidants.
Not exact matches
A lot of fast food options are
marketed as being healthy, but unless you're the one doing the cooking it's difficult to control how much sugar or salt (or fat or energy or... you get the picture...) is in that bowl of
superfood lentil stew with mixed grains from the healthy fast food chain next door to the office.
1: The Save the Children report
Superfood for Babies (2013) cites industry figures giving Nestlé 23 % of the global baby food
market (prior to its takeover of the Pfizer Nutrition and Wyeth brands, such
as SMA).
Unlike many other protein powders on the
market I have tried, Nutiva's Plant Protein
Superfood taste great on its own
as well
as with other ingredients in smoothie recipes.
In the landscape of today's health and beauty
market, we
as consumers are obsessed with the latest
superfoods and anti-aging elixirs.
As for Mercola and his
marketing, I think that if his clinical outcomes supported the idea that everyone should be on a raw, vegan diet, he would simply sell blenders, dehydrators, ceramic knives and advertise for CSA's and import the best of the best
superfoods like David Wolfe and others, and convince ranchers to raise livestock for the purpose of selling high quality manure and ecofriendly - harvested seaweeds so we can all grow our own food in healthy soil.
, I'm at least happy to see tons of vegan restaurants popping up,
as well
as health food
markets, casual healthy restaurants that offer organic bites,
superfoods and green juices, and of course, yoga studios.
As healthful as superfoods might be, the use of the term is largely a marketing too
As healthful
as superfoods might be, the use of the term is largely a marketing too
as superfoods might be, the use of the term is largely a
marketing tool.
«
As a dietician, I think «
superfood» is more of a
marketing term for foods that have health benefits.»