How to Incorporate These 6 Superfoods Into Your Diet

Whether you are trying to get healthy, battle a disease, or lose weight, you need superfoods. These are foods that contain a lot of the essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that should be in your regular diet. However, if you aren’t accustomed to eating these foods, it can be a little tricky. Here are some helpful tips for introducing these superfoods back into your diet.

Plant Based Yogurt

There is a lot you can do with plant based yogurt, even if you don’t like the taste of it plain. To improve the taste and eat it as a snack, consider adding  agave sugar, or fruit to it. Plant based yogurt is an excellent choice for smoothies to thicken them up. You can also add Plant based yogurt to other dishes in place of sour cream or cream cheese. It makes an excellent substitute since it is healthy and non milk based. It is also recommended if you can to make your own. There are a ton of resources on how to make your own in books and on the web.

Seaweed

This is one of the less commonly known superfoods, but an important one! Seaweed is super healthy, providing a lot of calcium, iron, potassium, zinc and iodine. Perhaps most importantly, it is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids. Eating seaweed allows you to get those important omega-3s without eating salmon, which is great if follow a plant based or vegan lifestyle. One easy way to eat more seaweed is to place sheets of it on your vegetables and rice, roll it up and eat it. You can also make seaweed chips by baking it with some sea salt for a nice little crunch.

Blueberries

Ah, blueberries. The ultimate superfood. This is by far one of the most popular and well known superfoods to add to your diet. Blueberries are a wonderful source of vitamin C, fiber, and antioxidants. They can help boost your metabolism, give you more energy, fight off cancer and other diseases, and keep your illnesses to a minimum. If you aren’t a big fan of eating blueberries directly out of the carton, there are many other things you can do with them. Here are just a few:

* Add blueberries and other berries to a morning juice
* Make a berry and banana smoothie
* Top your yogurt with the berries
* Add them to a summer salad, consisting of strawberries and spinach
* Top off your morning cereal or oatmeal with blueberries and a little maple syrup

Black Garlic

Black garlic is another lesser known superfood that you might want to add to your cooking regimen. Black garlic is often used in Asian foods, though many other international cuisine is also incorporating it. Raw garlic is fermented with heat and humidity in order to make black garlic, which has more of a mellow flavor. It is excellent for heart health since it contains sulfuric compounds. Black garlic is best used for various savory salad dressings, dips, and sauces. Try experimenting with different salad dressings to add some black garlic and see what combination you like best.

Flax Seeds

One of the best ways to get more omega-3 fatty acid is with flax seeds. Flax seed is a heart-healthy food that is very good for cardiovascular health and skin health. Make sure that you buy your flax seed whole and grind them up before eating them. This allows your body to process the omega-3’s without them going rancid from having it pre-ground. It is really easy to do this by using a spice or coffee grinder or a high speed blender like Vitamix. The best way to eat these are in a smoothie, oatmeal, a salad, or sprinkled over other dishes you make.
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Strawberries

If you are looking for antioxidants and more vitamin C, strawberries are the way to go! These red, delicious berries are loaded with vitamin C, making them one of the top superfoods on the list. It is also extremely easy to add them to your meals. Whether you are talking breakfast or lunch, salads, cereal or oatmeal, drinks, or dessert, you will find a way. However, you might be looking for something a little more unique. Why not make a strawberry salsa with cinnamon homemade baked chips for a healthy dessert? You can also make ice cream in a bag with some strawberry puree for a frozen strawberry treat.