Everyday Superfoods

by Nandita Iyer

The Essential Guide to Adding Superfoods to Your Diet, One Easy Step at a Time.
In Everyday Superfoods, bestselling author and nutritionist Dr Nandita Iyer brings to you everything you need to know about easily available local superfoods and ways to incorporate them into your diet. Through 60 simple recipes using an arsenal of 39 superfoods easily found in Indian kitchens, this book will not just help you understand your relationship with food but also show you how to improve your eating habits and enrich your daily meals with the goodness of superfoods.
This book includes:
-Details on specific superfoods for boosting immunity, treating diabetes and for better skin and hair;
-Daily meal plans, how to shop for the right superfoods, the kind of utensils to use for cooking, superfood swaps, creating your own recipes, cooking for lunch boxes and how to set up a kitchen garden;
-A serious look at sustainability in superfoods, including more biodiverse produce, reducing food waste and being a conscious consumer.
At a time when living healthier is paramount, this book will act as an essential guide to unlocking the very best attributes of your food.

Genres: Health, Food, Nonfiction, Science

284 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 18, 2021

Reviews

[Sayantoni Das · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyday Superfoods is an unconventional take on nutrition and how misguided we are at times. At one point or the other we have searched for diet plans online, listened to influential people talk about what's best for us and even administered these routines without giving it a second thought. Most of the times we ignore the science behind it, and fall for advertising meant only for shrewd marketing. This book addresses this issue and guides us through and through. With simple yet attainable recipes, info on some of the superfoods that are available everyday around us, and conspicuous images of healthy dishes, the author packs a punch for us.

This novel approach has made the book as interesting as it is informative and helpful. We falter to choose the right diet for us because what we see on the internet are fancy stuff from all around the world. Some are not even available here, and others are so strange that some of us even wonder how to ever incorporate them in our daily diet. However, there is solace in simplicity and there are local sources which are just as effective and healthy for combating some of our common ailments and illnesses.
Would definitely recommend this book to everyone who aspires to lead a healthy life.

[Chaitanya Srivastava · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyday Superfood by Dr Nandita Iyer is a book about food, nutrition and immunity. It is filled with easy to consume information and well-researched facts about food and the nutritional benefits we derive from them. She focuses on our relationship with food and how it has changed and evolved over the years ad how we can use all that we know today to give us a better life!

There are various tables and quick summaries of which food you should be consuming for what and which one provides you with what and how much quantity!

There are some very fun exercises as well that the reader can engage in. I personally found EATING DAIRY one very helpful as it actually showed me how many times I ate, what I ate and why I ate!

It also has a bunch of very helpful and easy to try recipes that will surely put you into action! There are over 20 different recipes and all of them require some or the other superfood ad other ingredients.

I have always enjoyed picking up such books however I struggle really hard to follow what’s given! But with this one, I actually took into consideration what Dr Iyer preaches – to pick and mix and give it your own unique twist!

There is no harm in going by the rulebook/recipe! However, at times, it’s just not possible! So, then it does not mean that we would not follow anything altogether! Rather, just see what you have, cross-check with the book that what it says you can do with it and you’re good to go!

Thank you Bloomsbury India for sending in this review copy.

[Sudarshan Wagh (swish_ndflick) · Rating 4 out of 5]

'What people eat is not calories but food, and consideration of fads, flavours, and variations of appetite can make nonsense of the dietician's theories.' - A line from my textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine because it very well fits the premise of this book.

Everyday Super Foods by Dr. Nandita Iyer has been so well written that it positively encourages the reader to change his/her thoughts about health, nutrition, and eating habits. Simple, crisp, and to the point information helps clear all the doubts a person aspiring to follow a healthy diet might have.

Keeping the COVID-19 situation in mind and the importance of immunity in this unprecedented health catastrophe, the author has described how one can accommodate these superfoods into his/her diet easily and added one of my favourite parts in the book - 'The Superfood Compendium' - along with information on their nutritional values and how to use them in our diet. The book concludes with sustainability and wonderful recipes using these superfoods, some of which I have already tried, and believe me, they are legit amazing and scrumptious!

Totally recommended for all foodies who want to keep a check on their intake.

[Mano Ranjani · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not sure what motivated me to buy this but I am glad I did. The author talks about true meaning of superfoods versus fads. She re-introduces us to common vegetables/fruits/species already known to us but with details of nutrition content, best way to cook it so that our body absorbs the nutrients all the way. I liked her recipes and meal prep tips.

[Puja Pradhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nutrition is one of the most underrated sciences. A book written for Indian context is even rarer. Filled with actionable steps written by a practitioner.
Good reference for practical ways to eat clean.

[Promita Bhowmick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful read. Specially if one believes in sustainable and healthy eating.