Ordinary Fruits and Vegetables: The New Superfood

I must have gotten a lot of pectin this summer, cause plums have been GREAT and I was eating 4 to 6 plums a day, plus apples, papaya, pears, mangoes, etc. And I eat legumes about 5 times a week.

I think fruits and veggies, simple and straight in all their colorful beauty, will always be superfoods. Just makes sense.

While berries haven't been so good lately, and the prices are painfuil, ortunately, red plums are still nice and clementines are fabulous (been eating four or more a day!)

The Princess

Finally some simple good news about eating healthy.

I'll be interested to see if prices of ordinary fruits go up with new marketing efforts. It's amazing that blue berries can sometimes cost 4 times as much as grapes.

Bring on the fruit.

Is there a blueberry shortage right now?

Ah, although it is something I've already known, it's nevertheless still a beneficial reinforcement.

I've always believed that the closer to nature and natural our food - the healthier it is, no matter what it is. So whether we're talking blueberries, blackberries, apples or banana's, potatoes or portobello mushrooms - they've got what food processing destroys: essential nutrients in a form that the body can easily digest and utlizie and fibre which helps our health in so many ways...

Pity that what we are exposed to daily in the media is advertising for processed foods and not what's grown naturally.

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High fiber foods are great at sustaining hunger. An apple is great because it curbs your hunger and it satisfies the occasional sweet tooth.

Yep, the more unprocessed the food, the better. When they process food, they usually remove pectin and other things from the food and leave the sugar and calories. That's why I eat apples instead of drinking apple juice. Most fruit juices are devoid of fiber and lots of them are enriched with sugar or whatever to make them more appealing to kids.

Another good reason to eat foods with a lot of fiber: prebiotics. Lots of different bacteria that live in your intestines thrive on the plant matter that we eat. These bacteria keep your intestines functioning properly and prevent you from getting sick.

I am really starting to like how so many of these blog posts talk about fruits and veggies as the way to go. Glad to see people are starting to get it!

Hey Donna -- I love how you have taken this nice discussion about the health value of REAL fruits and vegetables, and turned it into an advertisement for your Juice Plus distributorship/multilevel marketing scheme. This high-priced pill which is mostly fillers, and added synthetic vitamins, which is also not 100% organic (no organic label -- see it for yourself folks) will NEVER substitute, or even come close, to eating real fruits and vegetables. Eating the real thing, and juicing at home, is the way to go. The "clinical research" that supposedly supports this product is a joke. See for yourself here: http://juiceplusresearch.blogspot.com/

Juice Plus also has MINISCULE amounts of fiber. So the false ads saying it is a good source of fiber will keep some people from eating real fruits and getting the true fiber, and assuming they'll get it from Juice Plus. They won't. Eat the real thing!

It's always amazing to see that "getting back to the basics" works with so many things....weight loss programs, exercise, and with nutrition.