The meta changes over time. Right now we care about vitamins and antioxidants and so on but it used to be just stuff that stored well like smoked fish, salt beef, pickled vegetables etc.
"Superfoods" are such a fucking racist concept. Taking random foods from other parts of the world, removing them from their original culinary traditions, and putting worse prepared versions of them in a pedestal as somehow uniquely healthy, is... Just culinary colonialism.
How did our ancestors know it was a superfood if they didn't have some dipshit on Facebook coming up with the idea of superfoods?
The meta changes over time. Right now we care about vitamins and antioxidants and so on but it used to be just stuff that stored well like smoked fish, salt beef, pickled vegetables etc.
brb investing in chewable salted Flintstones vitamins
"Superfoods" are such a fucking racist concept. Taking random foods from other parts of the world, removing them from their original culinary traditions, and putting worse prepared versions of them in a pedestal as somehow uniquely healthy, is... Just culinary colonialism.