Help the Declining Bee Population Could you live without apples or strawberries or blueberries or cherries or squash? What about legumes or nuts? My kids would be more than happy without squash but definitely not the others. All this deliciousness comes to life as a direct result of the work of bees and you’ve probably […]
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Are Goji Berries are a Superfood You Should Be Eating?
Are goji berries a superfood? They are the most nutritionally dense fruit on Earth so that sounds pretty amazing! The health benefits of goji berries are numerous and probably exceedingly more than that decadent chocolate pie you’d rather be eating but hey, life is all about balance. Learn more about superfoods in this series. I […]
Raw Cacao Health Benefits That Justify Eating Chocolate
Like most everyone in the human race, I love chocolate. I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Years ago when I first read about cacao and it being classified as a superfood, I truly assumed it was a typo and the writer meant to write cocoa. Finding out cocoa (which is processed […]
Are Chia Seeds REALLY an Amazing Superfood?
Cha cha cha chia! Who remembers that jingle from the 1980’s Chia Pets commercials. Wasn’t it the pottery that grows or am I not remembering this correctly? Over the years, the pottery base morphed into all kinds of crazy bases. I think I may have had one growing up and it lost it’s novelty pretty […]
Superfood Myth vs. Fact – Do They Really Exist?
How many times have you heard someone refer to a food as a ‘superfood’? I mean come on, superfood myth vs. fact – do they really exist? I’ve often wondered because if you Pinterest or Google the term ‘Superfood’, you get like 682 different lists that all contain different foods. While the term ‘superfood’ sounds […]