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Super Clean Super Foods: Power Up Your Plate, Boost Your Health, 90 Nutritious Foods, 250 Easy Ways to En
Boost your health and energy and eat cleaner with this guide to superfoods loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Featuring 250 easy ways to enjoy 90 nutrient-filled whole foods, Super Clean Super Foods shows you how to incorporate each one into your everyday diet, along with colorful illustrations that teach you how to prepare unfamiliar ingredients. From quinoa and chia seeds to spinach and pomegranate, this guide uses unprocessed and minimally processed foods that avoid added sugar, salt, and unwanted fats. Explore the health properties of phytonutrients, dietary fiber, whole grains, and seasonally and locally grown fruits and vegetables that will better your body and the environment, and work toward specific goals with food plans for better sleep, gut health, brain health, and more.
Featuring 250 easy ways to enjoy 90 nutrient-filled whole foods, Super Clean Super Foods shows you how to incorporate each one into your everyday diet, along with colorful illustrations that teach you how to prepare unfamiliar ingredients. From quinoa and chia seeds to spinach and pomegranate, this guide uses unprocessed and minimally processed foods that avoid added sugar, salt, and unwanted fats. Explore the health properties of phytonutrients, dietary fiber, whole grains, and seasonally and locally grown fruits and vegetables that will better your body and the environment, and work toward specific goals with food plans for better sleep, gut health, brain health, and more.
751 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2017
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February 27, 2019
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.
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.
August 21, 2017
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.
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.
October 3, 2017
Very informative and detailed. I started eating a Brazil nut everyday as I had been considering it but since reading this book, confirmed it!
December 13, 2017
Excellent book with lovely recipes
Goes through good foods , good ideas, nice recipes and lots of meals that I want to make. I am happy that I bought this book.
Goes through good foods , good ideas, nice recipes and lots of meals that I want to make. I am happy that I bought this book.
April 14, 2018
3.5-4: nice resource, which it went a bit more in-depth on some things (only because i am already pretty knowledgable), but fun and thorough.
March 29, 2019
Lots of great information about each food item. This would be a good reference book for the kitchen.
April 18, 2019
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!
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September 16, 2017I 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.
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.
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