List of Super Foods

Cranberries are not grown in the UK, which may explain why they are not one of our more popular berries (such as the strawberry and raspberry), but could largely be due to their sharp taste. The cranberry is, however, often used in conjunction with other fruits to make juices and smoothies – it is...

The humble tomato is a fruit that is eaten and prepared as a vegetable. Known as the love apple it is one foodstuff that is found in every cuisine the whole world over except that of the Arctic north simply because it doesn’t grow there. It’s eaten in salads, made into rich unctuous sauces, clear...

A pomegranate is a fruit about the size of an orange with a yellowish shell that turns red with ripening. The husk which is inedible encases jewel-like bright red seeds packed closely together in pale yellow pith. Each seed consists of a core surrounded by an abundant juice sack. The seeds are...

Ginger is the rhizome of the perennial plant Zingiber. It’s a gnarly fibrous root with a pungent aroma and very strong taste that has been used for 5,000 years as a spice, medicine and a food. It can be purchased as a powder or as a whole piece of the root. When whole it has to be peeled of its...

Oats come from the seeds of a grass that humans have cultivated since agriculture began. The seed has a very hard outer hull which must be removed to produce oat groats or milled rolled oats. Oat groats are most commonly used for porridge and rolled oats or oatmeal can be used in cooking, bread and...

Green tea, unlike black varieties which are often blended, is from one particular plant and again unlike black teas, they do not go through a whole range of processes before they are ready to drink. Black tea is allowed to oxidise which destroys many of its phytonutrients. Green tea is mostly drunk...

A blueberry is a single berry from a heath shrub. They grow in clusters and range in size from a small pea to a marble. They are a deep colour ranging from dark blue, through maroon to purple black. There’s a waxy bloom of a whitish greyish colour that acts as a protective coat to the surface and...

A walnut is the wrinkled two lobe, hard cased fruit of the Walnut tree characterised by a roughish skin and a smooth creamy inside. People on healthy diets generally steer of walnuts because of the fat content but the fats in nuts are mostly unsaturated which fight LDL Cholesterol. Whilst not being...