Welcome to the Superfoods Handbook! This area is meant to be a useful guide to learning more about Superfoods and the many nutritional benefits one gains from their use and consumption. Feel free to browse through the many articles listed below.

There are various ways to eat superfoods daily. One way is to spend more time with our salads. The more raw parsley, spinach, broccoli, and other vegetables that can be added to our daily meals, the better. Also making nice soups with nice mixtures of beans, grains and vegetables can be a very satisfying way to get more superfoods into the diet. It's best to either eat superfoods raw, or to steam them, in order to retain most of the nutrition. Soup-cooking is good because the soup water ends up being fortified. Most other "evaporator-style" cooking processes cook out most of the nutrition from foods.

Because of our modern lifestyles, we often cannot get a good dose of nutrition every day. Many folks in this category often turn to multi-vitamins in hopes to catch all the nutrition. It is important to be aware of the difference between superfoods and isolated, synthetic supplements. Concentrated and isolated vitamins and minerals should be used for therapeutic purposes and are not for extended use, as their massive proportions can throw off other delicate balances in the body, causing other issues. Some superfood products currently on the market are mixed with chemically-isolated vitamins and minerals. Be aware that these mixtures are completely experimental, and have not been shown to be any more beneficial than the superfoods alone. Be aware also that 100% of recommended daily allowance does not mean 100% absorbtion. An experiment with baby chicks and beta carotene, for example, showed that little or no effect resulted from synthetic dosage, as opposed to a 10x absorbtion level for beta carotene from dunaliella algae. Whole food, especially superfoods, have conclusively been shown to provide the best source of assimilated nutrients.

For those that would like to supplement their diets with superfoods, there are now food processing techniques that preserve much of the active elements in superfoods. These techniques include dehydration by low-temperature drum-drying, spray-drying, sun-drying, and freeze-drying. A stable temperature under 100 degrees farenheit and proper storage temperatures can maintain superfoods in a highly-nutritional state for an extended period of time. Then these dehydrated superfoods can be milled into powders and put into capsules or tablets for easy consumption in our hectic society.

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