superfoods

Popped water lily seeds have been eaten in India as a nutritious snack for thousands of years, and are hitting American markets with a bang.

This startup coming is making jerky out of sustainable kelp. The product will be available for purchase starting in January 2018.

If you think Mexican food is little more than enchiladas and nachos, you'll need to dig into this seven vegetable superfood salad.

Learn how to eat turmeric — there's a specific way — and get moving on improving your health from the inside out. It's the hottest superfood out there!

It IS easy being green, when you're the antioxidant-packed green tea powder that's turning everything from noodles and lattes to desserts a bright, healthy hue. Matcha is hot hot hot! Join lifestyle author Greta Scholtz on a vibrant adventure through the sweet and savory uses of this magic ingredient.Chocolate bark is probably one of my…

It took nearly six years for Robyn Lawrence to finish her first cookbook. Blame that on the signature ingredient. "You can only test one of those recipes at a time," she laughs. "Otherwise, it never would have gotten done."Lawrence is the author of The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook. Released in 2015, the 323-page tome is one of a dozen or so marijuana-themed…

A friend recently gifted me a bag of brined lupini beans in a vacuum-sealed pouch. The packaging was a little silly, but my skepticism was quickly squashed by their unusual and complex deliciousness. Slightly spicy and tangy but also buttery like a gigante bean, they are a refreshing alternative to the omnipresent garbanzo and cannellini.…

A strange yellow fruit concealed in waxy leaves is about to take the health world by storm. Like the goji and açai berries before it, the golden berry, or Physalis Peruviana, is a nutrient-packed, odd-tasting berry. With a name like that and a mysterious origin story in the Peruvian and Colombian mountains, golden berries are…

You are the master of your dietary destiny. Pick up a boost from fitness guru and nutritionist Julie Montagu's new book, Superfoods, and enjoy pretty much the whole-est grains there are. Seriously, friends, eat your fiber. I especially love this recipe because not only is it tasty in every way possible, but also it’s a big hit with…

The dog days of summer bring about my most treasured treat of the season: watermelon. I insist, often to the dismay of my grocery mule/boyfriend, on buying whole watermelons at the market instead of the lighter, more easily transported presliced wedges or cubes. Presliced fruit is no way to live. Peak watermelon season lasts only about four…

Good snacking requires more than knowing which foods are healthy. Take charge of snacktime with Julie Morris’s Superfood Snacks, a follow-up to her ultimate juicing guide (try the honeydew mint chia fresca!) Her tried-and-true crunchy, salty and sweet bites are as delicious as they are packed with vitamins and antioxidants, like these no-bake power bars. Cherries and…

Good snacking takes more than knowing which foods are healthy. Take charge of snacktime with Julie Morris’s Superfood Snacks, a follow-up to her ultimate juicing guide (try the honeydew mint chia fresca!). Her tried-and-true crunchy, salty and sweet bites are as delicious as they are packed with vitamins and antioxidants. Whip up a batch of homemade soft-serve…

Native to the Andean region in Peru, the sacha tomate is high in potassium and vitamins A and C. [/caption] Most of us who eat and travel for a living taste a lot of unusual foods — if you could even call some of them that (tarantulas, anyone?). Given my particular love for far-flung, out-of-the-way…

You order them on menus and make ithem at home, demonstrate about how healthy you are on your Instagram feed and preach the good word of this incredibly nutritious leafy green to all. Kale salads are simply what we want to eat right now, and we've got 7 recipes to heap on your plate for…

A brown rice-based drink is typically not what people think of when they hear "superfood".[/caption] Superfood this, superfood that – by now, we’ve all heard so much about superfoods and seen them become just another marketing tool, like “natural.” Here to restore your faith is Superfood Juices, Smoothies & Drinks, a new cookbook by Jason Manheim that focuses…

I often expect seasonal drinks in summer to offer little in the way of palate stimulation, but at David Chang's Momofuku Ssäm Bar in NYC, that’s out of the question. Contrasting the rich, spicy dishes coming from the kitchen, bartender Zach Alcerro created a summer drink that’s far from the sweet and over-diluted coolers that…

A few days ago, UK newspaper The Guardian ran a piece that had us questioning if antioxidant-and-nutrition-packed foods — or “superfoods” — are essential building blocks to good health, or just so much marketing fluff. A recent review of scientific studies failed to find a clear link between vitamin supplements and lower breast cancer risk.…

Good things come in small packages, right? The mighty chia seed may be the size of a pinhead, but two tablespoons of this ancient Mayan staple contains as much nutrition as a serving of oatmeal with milk, bananas and walnuts. And frankly, takes a lot less time to consume if you're in a rush.Chia is…

Let’s start with what we do know. Quinoa is a versatile, protein-filled superfood. While similar staples like bulgur and barley tend to be relegated to health food aisles and your hippie aunt’s vegetarian casserole, quinoa is a crowd-pleaser with enormous global appeal. But with great power comes great responsibility. Controversy clings to the crop —…

I ate quinoa salad three times over the weekend by sheer coincidence. Rather than hang up my new-age hippie sandals and dig into a hearty cheesesteak, however, I now have an insatiable craving for those flavors and textures, and none for meat. Which is great, because I'm now on month three of a 100%-legit (no…

The Set-Up: Coconut water is nature's energy drink in superfood form: low in calories, jam-packed with potassium and electrolytes, and all-natural. As the Vita Coco label says, it's "like sticking a straw in a coconut," and, as an added perk, it's actually delicious. Unless of course you insist on improving nature by adding whatever trendy…

I always seem to do things at the last minute. I hit the snooze button within an inch of its life. I'm the guy who shows up late to the party… like really late. I'm often late to meetings and this has seemed to develop over time, as if somehow the older I get the…

The Set-Up: Navitas Naturals is one of those health-food brands that just seems to do everything so damn perfectly. The packaging looks inviting, even for health food, and it's always on message. The colors are soothing yet not too feminine, there's a little yellow sun off to the side subtly noting "Certified organic." And in…