Laura Holland identifies the seven most nutrient-dense foods in the world
Time is of the essence, in every aspect of life, including our health. Anything that takes too much time is either removed or rescheduled, and eating nutritiously has a tendency to fall off the to-do list more often than any of us would prefer.
For time-strapped health conscious types, the key is to eat foods that offer the most amount of nutrients in the smallest package; preferably items that do not require too much effort to find and prepare. Discovering what has the most nutrition, then concentrating our efforts on including these foods in our daily diets, is a time-efficient way of tending to the nutritional requirements of our body.
Dr Joel Fuhrman, a specialist in nutrition and best-selling author, has created something called the Andi score – Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. This is a scale from 1 to 1,000 based on the nutrition content of a food calculated by micronutrients per calorie.
Kale, collard greens, mustard greens and watercress all receive the highest score of 1,000, followed by other leafy greens and vegetables. The first fruit featured is the tomato, coming in at 186, followed by the strawberry at 182 and then the blueberry at 132. Pasta, french fries and corn chips score a very low 16, 12 and 7 points, respectively.
You can see there is a huge drop in nutrition from vegetables to fruit. Incidentally, vegetables tend to be the most undereaten of all food categories. Therefore, increasing our intake of leafy greens would prove incredibly effective.
While the Andi score provides great insights into what we should eat, critics point out that no superfoods are covered in the analysis and there is also no appreciation for the benefits of some nutrients compared to others.
To find the best of the best, we need to combine Fuhrman’s Andi scale with the latest nutrition research, as documented in Natural News. So here is the Top 7 and how to eat them, quickly!
