Superfoods part 31
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Today’s post: Tuesday, 5-30-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 31
Plums & Prunes (dried Plums).
This will be a bit short today as I’m short on time.
Plums & Prunes, dried Plums, deserve a place on this list.
It’s better to get them from organic sources.
That said, plums are one of the kinds of fruit that are high in antioxidants.
But the really neat thing about Plums is that they have so much taste & a create enough of a perception of sweetness to be a decently satisfying snack or treat food. Plums have enough taste to explode with flavor when you bite into them in fact.
And they deliver all this with a very low glycemic index & are not really that high in sugar. This is a really neat trick.
Dried Plums or Prunes are also high in fiber & have a totally different taste.
Their claim to fame as a superfood is that by concentrating the fiber & antioxidants of the plums they are made of, they are very, very high in antioxidants – enough so that they rank with blueberries for their anti-oxidant content.
And, they are a cheaper &, in my view, a more likely to be beneficial without side-effects source of lots of fiber, than fiber supplements of various kinds.
Not everyone likes the taste of prunes. And that includes me.
But I have found that by adding pitted & checked to be 100 % prunes in diced form to other dishes or by blending them with other foods, like 1 % lowfat milk & a banana, plus cinnamon, for example, they add a more muted & more interesting flavor & are actually easy to like.
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today’s post: Tuesday, 5-30-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 31
Plums & Prunes (dried Plums).
This will be a bit short today as I’m short on time.
Plums & Prunes, dried Plums, deserve a place on this list.
It’s better to get them from organic sources.
That said, plums are one of the kinds of fruit that are high in antioxidants.
But the really neat thing about Plums is that they have so much taste & a create enough of a perception of sweetness to be a decently satisfying snack or treat food. Plums have enough taste to explode with flavor when you bite into them in fact.
And they deliver all this with a very low glycemic index & are not really that high in sugar. This is a really neat trick.
Dried Plums or Prunes are also high in fiber & have a totally different taste.
Their claim to fame as a superfood is that by concentrating the fiber & antioxidants of the plums they are made of, they are very, very high in antioxidants – enough so that they rank with blueberries for their anti-oxidant content.
And, they are a cheaper &, in my view, a more likely to be beneficial without side-effects source of lots of fiber, than fiber supplements of various kinds.
Not everyone likes the taste of prunes. And that includes me.
But I have found that by adding pitted & checked to be 100 % prunes in diced form to other dishes or by blending them with other foods, like 1 % lowfat milk & a banana, plus cinnamon, for example, they add a more muted & more interesting flavor & are actually easy to like.
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