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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.
Baobab
Why eat it: The baobab fruit looks like a coconut, but has six times the vitamin C of an orange, twice the calcium of milk and is packed with antioxidants like iron and potassium. The white powdery pulp of the baobab (pronounced bay-oh-bab) fruit has been consumed by Africans for generations owing to its health benefits and is on course to become the next big super food in the UK. It has pro-biotic properties, meaning it stimulates the good bacteria in your gut, so is great for your digestion, and it’s high potassium levels are great for brain, muscle and nerve function.
How: You can peel, slice and cook it with anything - beef, chicken, and even bake or grill it with fish, or roast it, or mash it, or puree it, the possibilities are endless. But also keep an eye out for baobab in smoothies and cereal bars, which will be hitting stores in the next few months. Products are still in development as the EU only granted permission for it’s use in 2008.
You can buy dried fruit pulp and oil from US site Baobab-fruit.com
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