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Spa breaks and designer skin creams may be of the ‘not-feeling-flush’ health agenda right now, but you can still sparkle from the inside out with the latest super foods. We’ve compiled the top 10 health discoveries from already established anti-oxidant classics to the newest collagen plumping food craze, you need to be working into your diet right now.


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Umeboshi Plums

Why eat them: These Japanese pickled plums, have remarkable medicinal qualities. ‘Their powerful acidity has an alkalinising effect on your body, neutralising fatigue, stimulating digestion, and promoting the elimination of toxins,’ says Ester Blum, New York nutritionist and author of Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous. ‘This is the Far Eastern equivalent to both aspirin and apple; not only is it a potent hangover remedy but an umeboshi a day is regarded as the best preventive medicine available,’ she adds.

How: Umeboshi plums taste very salty. Japanese herbalists say the saltiness helps put the body back into balance by contracting the tissues that have overexpanded from too much alcohol. For a normal hangover, bite off about a quarter of a plum and keep it in your mouth until it dissolves. For a killer hangover, herbalists recommend popping a whole plum in your mouth (they’re only small) and suck on the stone for about an hour after the plum fruit has dissolved.

Clearspring Umeboshi plums are available from health shops nationwide, click here for details.


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