Superfoods, Not So Super!

When I travel, breakfast is the most difficult for me, lunch and dinner are easy choices, but breakfast is – “What am I going to eat?” – I value my breakfast and I need a good one to properly start the day. And I do not want to go for the hotel breakfast as most of the time is not included in the price of the room and in the rare cases it is I do not like it. So why not have (mostly) superfoods for breakfast?

There are supercars, super yachts, super models, so superfoods are supposed to be special as well. However, “The term is not in common use by dietitians and nutrition scientists, many of whom dispute that particular foodstuffs have the health benefits often claimed by advocates of particular superfoods. There is no legal definition of the term and it has been alleged that this has led to it being misleadingly used as a marketing tool.” Wikipedia: Superfood

For me a superfood is something exotic and I would include here some of the ‘superfoods’ I ate/tested: Goldenberries (‘Andean Superfruit’ according to the label), Goji Berries (‘Himalayan Superfruit’), Raw Chocolate Nibs (‘Mayan Superfood’). If it comes from the Andes and Himalayas and are superfruits they must be exceptional. No, they are not. I didn’t feel any difference, stopped buying them, and as a matter of fact I started to buy these ‘superfoods’ only when I started travelling and I wanted to use up the per diem (my ‘goal’ was to spend at least 90% of the per diem).

I tried the following ingredients for breakfast: unfortunately not the breakfast of the champions I had expected.

However, something that I felt gave me some real energy in the morning was the ‘Goji Cacao & Maca Energy Snack’ from the Laughing Giraffe copmay:

I could not test it for a longer period of time as the store where I used to buy this product stopped carrying it so the jury is still out about it.

I sent an email to the company asking them what stores in Vancouver, BC carry the product and no answer after 2 or 3 months so I did not bother contacting them again. It was expensive but I felt it was worth it and better than having a muffin in the morning.