Are superfoods all that they’re cracked up to be? There’s plenty of worldwide hype about eating chia seeds, goji berries and quinoa – but what benefits do they really bring?
This documentary looks at what superfoods do for people and more. How is the healthy eating boom influencing agriculture and business? There are more and more restaurants serving superfoods in Germany. Florian Klar of Bochum opened the first superfood bistro in the Ruhr region about a year ago. He buys in all types of food, using local suppliers when he can, but he also uses exotic superfoods in his meals.
Quinoa, goji berries and chia seeds can now all be found in supermarkets as well. The food industry has discovered selling these products is lucrative and changed its product selection accordingly. Superfoods are simply that a foodstuff contains a high amount of nutrients. “Every country has its own superfood,” says nutritionist Matthias Riedl. Blueberries, flax seed, blackcurrants, and kale are all superfoods native to Germany.
The film also takes viewers to Bolivia, a key quinoa exporter, to see how the hype has influenced farming there. Exports of the so-called “Inca corn” quadrupled between 2007 and 2013. The rising price of quinoa on global markets has led Andean farmers to increase the size of their fields. Yet after just two straight years of quinoa harvests, the soil is already exhausted and barren.
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1. This documentary has no clear hypothesis and no clear conclusion…it goes all over without clear useful points as a diet guide it is one of the worst videos you will find on the insternet
2. Quinoa is great to replace meat, specially for the environment
3. Quinoa has higher protein, fiber AND iron than millet
I think your tongue is what tells you what to eat and what not to… We all have lost our natural senses,, according to me food is "Medicine"!
Just to remind you this hype can only be created in developed countries as in most other countries people just think about the next meal on table.
Oats is also one of the superfoods which has created hype in the market.
It's almost like consumers should educate themselves and people should be responsible for what they put in their body! Who knew?
Superfood is what is grown in your region. That is what your system needs, that is what nourishes your body best, that is what does not need to travel around the world.
Probably so the answer is…go back to UNHEALTHY food😂
The nutritionist is more than a little disingenuous.
Superfoods are single ingredients- they’re not the processed foods in boxes he was using as examples.
Cd an As are not heavy metals. Arsenic is even not a metal!))
Tip, brainwash your brain to evey time you see a food that's been processed, think poison. I visualize roach bait sitting there.
Works for me anyways
There is more to nutrient content than percentage. Quinoa contains a whole protein. This makes it an animal product substitute that does not need to be combined with other plant foods. There is also the issue of availability. Just because it is in there, does not mean our digestive system can access it.
Since when are avocados exotic? (They grow in Australia)
why is meat not a super food
quite deceptive numbers are used here… 100g of quinoa has 16g of protein, not 10
Mu horek😂😂😂
Farmer's Market!!!
the cause for this is capitalism
None of these foods are super foods, it's just a trick to make money. The heads of these companies don't care about our health or our planet.
eat everything and eat them in the right proportion coupled with 4 days of exercise a week, that is all you need to live healthy.
wana get healthy? avoid processed food and sugars, get your cota in proteans and drink water voila end of story….
Super foods are just foods. It's processed and junk food that's killing people.
The owner of this restaurant is so manipulated and oblivious of how his exotic food is made. “It’s good to combine local and exotic ingredients, they make a complex meal.” That doesn’t even mean anything. Local food itself has enough nutrients to sustain a human being
You don't have to eat food grown thousands kilometers away to be healthy.
oxalates, phytic acid are found in many of these grains, not good for you folks. Eat gras fed meat.
These so called super foods are high in oxalate so they are actually anti-nutritious
I get an aneurysm when someone says the term 'superfood'.
Exotic??? Chia seeds???? Quinoa?????? AVOCADO??????? Germans just call everything not beige exotic
It always seems like it's farmers destroying the very land that sustains them… to maximize trends. Could they collectively just charge more and think long term? Isn't this their expertise??
Ffs we live in a world of brainwashed idiots..
Look at this way dont eat processed foods, dont eat refined sugars, and keep your calories down to a deficit..
Simple rules to loose fat.
One other thing that bothers me is a company can stat the magic word protein ,and pile up that price on the product..
It makes me laugh as to much excessive protein converts back in to fat 😂😂😂
Its all a con,selecting on people igronense..
I don't like that this video compares every exotic produce with an European one (quinoa/millet). It doesn't matter if its nutritional value is similar, everyone wants more options and new recipes. All of those packaged processed products are missleading, fresh products are the key to a healthy diet
I know this isn't the point of the documentary, but…I REALLY want to pet some of those llamas now. ^_^
I enjoy watching this video.