If you're feeling overwhelmed by clean eating advice, look no further. Super Clean Super Foods is the ultimate nutritional guide to superfoods, telling you all you need to know to power up your plate.Super Clean Super Foods offers an introduction to over 90 delicious superfoods including quinoa, acai, buckwheat, chia seeds, kale, tumeric, coconut, and matcha, showing you the nutritional benefits of each. Enrich your diet with the world's healthiest foods, with advice on the best superfoods for pregnancy, children, energy-boosting, and over-50s. Learn how to prepare unfamiliar ingredients and which ingredients to mix with tips for 200 tasty ways to prepare your superfoods.Supercharge your plate, energise and boost your health, and introduce vitamins and minerals into your diet with Super Clean Super Foods .
This book is not what I expected. I read it online via overdrive through my public library, but I think I'll buy this one. It breaks down super foods, explaining why they're super foods/health benefits, where the food comes from and gives recipes for the food. The book also gives warnings. For instance acai, it gave a warning for anyone with pollen allergies. At the end of the book it lists macronutrients and micronutrients/vitamins and minerals and a chart for men and women by age and what amounts of each are needed. Then the super foods are listed again by category; vegetable, herbs, etc. and what the key nutrients are in each food. I was pleasantly surprised by this book.
3.5 Stars What I liked: The breakdown of each of the "superfoods" was good - indicating the micronutrients within each, the origin etc. There was some good information here that was easy to understand. I feel like I got out of the book what I wanted.
What I didn't: There were quite a few recipe suggestions with no specifics. This was disappointing as I would have loved to try some of the things that were vaguely suggested.
It talked a lot about the benefits of each food, but there was a lot of information lacking. I would have liked to see calorie count for the foods mentioned. Glycemic index was only mentioned when it was convenient (low GI foods) which is misleading. Having a few more "tips" or "watch fors" when consuming these foods (eg. which have high calorie counts or high GI's) would have provided a more holistic approach.
Some of the foods listed in their percentages of micronutrients were misleading - things like powders and herbs are typically consumed in small quantities, so the stats that reflected large quantities were not as easy to understand nor believable.
Recommendation: good for a review and for some ideas on how to eat some of the foods but read it with a critical eye.
Nicely designed and informative, with details of the origin, nutritional content, ways to enjoy the superfoods, and sample meals. Great as inspiration or for getting into healthy eating!
I loved it I keep it in my cloud because when I need to look some thing Up I can find it off line. I wanted in book form but saw it at the Library And it was way to busy information on on the pages. I like the digital Book much better.