To wonder if superfoods make much difference?

[SherleenDionne]

If you ate blueberries and açai instead of apples + oranges, quinoa instead of rice, sweet potatoes instead of ordinary carrots, kale instead of cabbage, green tea instead of PG tips -- do you think it would make much difference?

It would probably improve your gut health, but I suspect you'd be better off having it as well as. You get different nutrients from different foods so it may help guard against certain cancers etc.

But you'll probably never know (not helpful, sorry!)

I think no to some and yes to some. For example, yes, I think drinking green tea instead of PG tips would make a difference. Also, quinoa instead of rice, yes, also a difference. The fruit and veg, well, you get different benefits from it all. Best to have both as a PP said.

Some are just hype, some are better and some are just meh.
I am pretty sure that kale is same as cabbage nutritionally.

I think how the vegetables are grown and transported makes a big difference to the nutrients inside them. Better, healthier soil= Better, healthier food.

I don't think it has to be an either or. That said I eat 'super foods' but don't describe them as such. It's the faddish element that irks me.

I think it can. I enjoy so called super foods, eg salmon, kale. I'm glad I like them so it doesn't feel a chore. I enjoy green tea, but couldn't have it instead of my first cup of tea in the morning. I love sweet potato and carrots, so would eat both.

No.

You might get a placebo effect and feel healthier because of it, but that's pretty much all, IMO.

Eat locally produced fruit and veg as much as possible, that's the best thing.

Super foods are essentially created by marketing aren't they?

There's loads of beneficial aspects of foods like cucumber, tomatoes and apples but I don't think people eat them and think they're good for them in the same way that they view kale/blueberries/celery juice.

I like kale more than cabbage but I don’t think it’s better for me than cabbage. Broccoli is an actual ‘superfood’ but it’s cheap and everyone knows how to pronounce it so it doesn’t get the kudos it deserves.

Superfood is a marketing term

There's no such thing as a superfood. Don't let that crap influence you!

I'm not convinced. Super is an overused word in any case. I think that when and the amount of food you eat, and what exercise you do (or don't) makes more difference. Luvvies raving about such foods and then taking their SUV for a half-mile journey come to mind.

I don't know about superfoods but since I have started picking my own apples and pears and plums and damsons and black berries as well as growing little bits and bobs I have felt 100x better
Obviously not at the minute because nothing is ready to pick but soon. So addictive and makes me feel like a health guru

The thing with all of these hypes is that you will get absolutely 0 benefit if you eat it once a month.

I remember reading somewhere about the wheatgrass shots when they were in (so places had lots of grass and juicers running) and that you would have to drink a hell of a lot of them to actually feel benefits, not just one. At something like 3 quid a pop, if I remember correctly, you would bankrupt in a week

'Superfoods' are called that because they contain whatever compound or vitamin that has been found to have some beneficial effect in huge concentrations in a petri dish.

So yes, they contain that compound but you'd need to eat an absolute tonne to get enough of the 'super' part to do you any good. It's a marketing gimmick.