Food

 Health foods, super foods 15 Superfoods and the Scientific Reasons to Eat Them When you hear the word superfood, what comes to mind? A carrot in a cape? A nectarine with night vision? Some foods are so nutritious it may seem like they have superpowers, but outside the marketing world, there is no such thing as a superfood — by scientific standards, at least. Despite the lack of evidence backing the touted health benefits of superfoods (in 2007using "superfood" on labels that didn’t have a health claim, which was “clear, accurate, and based on scientific evidence”), that hasn’t slowed superfood sales. Between 2011 and 2015, there was a 202 percent increase in global sales of products marketed as “superfoods,” “superfruits,” or “super grains, The superfood trend dates back almost a century and may have all started with a. In the 1920s, the United Fruit Company ran a series of colorful ads on the, research detailing the benefits of bananas was published, and soon the tropical f...

  With the turns we give to the culinary subject , the truth is that we have not yet managed to reach a clear definition of what cooking is and when it began to be practised. Because, apart from chronological evidence, if we were clear about what cooking is and what it is not, it would be much easier to trace the beginning of this practice, whatever its limits may be, than in this way. In any case, I'm afraid it's another one of those questions with no single answer. It will depend a lot on the approach. Ferran Adrià recently proposed the following example in Logroño: "If I pick a strawberry from the bush, clean it, put it on a plate without applying any technique to it and offer it to you, is that cooking?" More or less the same reflection, but speaking of a freshly caught barnacle on the rocks, he made it to me during the visit to the BulliTaller that he told a few weeks ago. So the only thing we are clear about is that the limits are not clear. According to some h...