What in your opinion is a really healthy food?

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Personally i think things like :-
Blueberries
Raspberries
Oranges
Bananas
all fruit and veg infact.

Plus, seeds/nuts
fruit juices
cereals
fish
. . . . . please name a few you think are excellent.

I think pretty much anything that's naturally derived counts as healthy.... all fruit and veg, pulses and grains, meat and fish, oils, eggs, dairy products.

However, rather than label foods 'good' or 'bad' I prefer to think in terms of a 'good diet'. As long as most of it comes from unprocessed natural sources and there is lots of variety (very important not to live on a restricted range of foods), the rest can be slightly frivolous.

BTW.. if you're into berries, kiwifruit are actually a massive berry.... far more nutritious per 100g than a lot of other fruit and very economical.

Yes true Prolesworth.
and yes a mixture of all natural foods is probably the best thing to eat.
Tonight we had noodles, prawns, peppers, beans, chicken, egg. . .then i sinned and had Tiramisu !.....
I have bought some blueberries, bananas and yogurt though.

"kiwifruit are actually a massive berry"

I am finding that very funny. I like that.

The answer's brocolli. Everyone knows it's brocolli. However it's spelled.

a coconut

All fruit and veg.
Apart from that getting a balance.

Red wine and chocolate

was on the telly

must be true

anything green

anything that tastes bad

lol lol
Good one sharbie. . . .
you do eat some greens and stuff dont you ???

Red wine and Chocs???
Yes, er right !

Why is it that you have to add something bad i.e. custard, cream, icecream to fruit to make it fill you up?

There are apparently scientific studies that have shown some health benefits from drinking red wine and chocolate (seperately...and in moderation of course).

Just goes to show that everything in moderation could be considered healthy (or unhealthy depending on what body part you're talking about!).

Don't really go with the 'good' and 'bad' foods myself. Although things with lots of salt, preservatives, colourings etc aren't all that great!

You hav to hav a bit of what you fancy...and sometimes too much.
I think life would be miserable if we never had anything we enjoy eating. for me its :-
chocolate
wine
marshmallows
nestles condensed milk
biscuits
cake

Yesterday i ate up a small syrup sponge pudding , as i had to it was just past its sell by date !! ha ha !

but most days i try to eat fruit, veg etc.

I have thought what I would eat if I could only ever eat one thing for the rest of my life. It would have to be healthy, nutritious, filling and likeable. The best I could come up with was bananas - although I think I would get mighty sick of them pretty quickly.

From Michael Pollan's 'In Defence of Food'

A few years ago, Rozin (University of Pennsylvania) presented a group of Americans with the following scenario: "Assume you are alone on a desert island for one year and you can have water and one other food. Pick the food that you think would be best for your heath"

The choices were corn, alfalfa sprouts, hot dogs, spinach, peaches, bananas and milk chocolate. The most popular choice was bananas (42%), followed by spinach (27%), corn (12%), alfalfa sprouts (7%), peaches (5%), hot dogs (4%) and milk chocolate (3%).

Only 7% of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate

Which demonstrates how our understanding of what is 'healthy' is skewed by fashion, prevailing medical advice, prejudice... Interesting, eh?

Should add that the reason hot-dogs and milk chocolate are the ones to choose is because they contain plenty of energy and a mixture of fat, protein and carbohydrate. The other foods listed are either not calorific enough, or are not complex enough nutritionally.

Anything without a list of ingredients

When I was (a bit bizarrely) teaching nutrition in Kenya about 20 years ago the answer to most questions about nutrition seemed to be "groundnuts" (i.e. peanuts).

You don't get very far suggesting that in the UK these days.

Blackcurrants need sweetening but I'm sure are just as "good" if not better than blueberries and we grow tons of them here so they don't need to be shipped halfway round the world.

Broccoli's good but also cauliflower (same group, cruciferous veg). UK cauliflower growers are struggling as it's not that popular here anymore.

Bangs drum for home produced fruit and veg!