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| pan-fried salmon serve with stir-fried broccoli with carrot & onion |
Superfood
is a marketing term used to describe foods with supposed health benefits. However, the claim have little scientific
basis. Nevertheless the superfoods may
have an unusual high content of antioxidants, vitamins, phytonutrients or other
nutrients.
Chinook Salmon
Oncohynchus tsawytscha is high in protein, omega-3 and
vitamin D.
Broccoli
Brassica oleracea Italica is high in vitamin C, folate,
selenium, dietary fiber, diindolylmethane, glucoraphanin. Despite my usual stirfrying method of cooking,
broccoli is better to boil in order to reduce the anti-carcinogenic sulforaphane.
Carrot
Daucus carota sativus is famously high β-carotene. Yet,
carrot is best consumed cooked, rather than raw. Carrot contain almost no starch, compare to
other root vegetables.
Onion
Alium cepa contains phenolic and flavonoids,
which are anti-inflammatory, anti-cholesterol, anti-carcinogenic, and
anti-oxidant.
Garlic
Alium sativum, when crushed, yields allicin, an
antibiotic and anti-fungal compound. However,
when cooked, allicin will be destroyed.
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