Are superfoods all that they’re cracked up to be? There’s plenty of worldwide hype about eating chia seeds, goji berries and quinoa – but what benefits do they really bring?
This documentary looks at what superfoods do for people and more. How is the healthy eating boom influencing agriculture and business? There are more and more restaurants serving superfoods in Germany. Florian Klar of Bochum opened the first superfood bistro in the Ruhr region about a year ago. He buys in all types of food, using local suppliers when he can, but he also uses exotic superfoods in his meals.
Quinoa, goji berries and chia seeds can now all be found in supermarkets as well. The food industry has discovered selling these products is lucrative and changed its product selection accordingly. Superfoods are simply that a foodstuff contains a high amount of nutrients. “Every country has its own superfood,” says nutritionist Matthias Riedl. Blueberries, flax seed, blackcurrants, and kale are all superfoods native to Germany.
The film also takes viewers to Bolivia, a key quinoa exporter, to see how the hype has influenced farming there. Exports of the so-called “Inca corn” quadrupled between 2007 and 2013. The rising price of quinoa on global markets has led Andean farmers to increase the size of their fields. Yet after just two straight years of quinoa harvests, the soil is already exhausted and barren.
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Thanks for the video, it really help me a lot that not all food is called "superfood". I will select millet other than quinoas, also I eat less avocado since it has oil and the taste isn't very well.
These foods have misplaced local foods in places like Europe. People now thinks that rice is unhealthy or wheat , when they among the most nutritious and cheapest staples in Mediterranean diets. Avocado, Chia, Quinoa are grossly overpriced and don't even taste that well
So funny people need to dopamine hit of adding the word super to their food just to motivate themselves to cut some vegetables and actually prepare a meal for themselves that isn't processed
"Exotic" and "avocado"??
What can I do as a quinoa consumer to help improve cultivation”s standards?
It looks good and I feel craving now for super foods for a change😋😊 there's nothing wrong if we can try this superfood❤❤
This is not super food organ meat is super food
Lesser you eat better your health , too much of everything is destroying mankind
Okay i will eat avocados on special occasions only since it’s not sustainable
Okay i will be changing from quinoa to millet
World work just fine before avocados were famous. Now people act like they can't live without them 😂😂😂
Superfood is a Western Hoax 😂
The only superfood is meat.
I was introduced to the "health food" (as they used to call it)/supplement and general woo lifestyle in the late nineties when I met my future husband. His whole family and their social circle works in this realm. It was a culture shock of a weird circus of characters: a variety of true believers who mixed science with faith or just faith and fad, those unhappy with office politics in the medical field and turn woo, single mom entrepreneurs chasing trends, guys with tans and chunky gold rings who brag about Asian conquest. I've witnessed dark comedies in little natural food stores: a cancer patient looking for an exotic ingredient she had never heard of previously mentioned by a celebrity doctor, another who read the same magazine buys famously branded bars to lose weight while missing out on a varied diet, while a conspiracy theorist in the other isle mutters about big pharma grabs items sold by the guy with the gold rings selling magic water pills and supplements packed full of ecosystem destroying ingredients so he can party big pharma style. I have also had had my ears perked up hearing about some products but try to not chase the "next big thing", read studies done by reputable scientists, and do what I suspect humans are made to do: eat a varied diet. I don't know best, but I've seen too many who have peddled dreams. Snake oil. It might be a safe product but is it a miracle? A panacea? Probably not.
You don't need to buy processed "superfoods". just buy fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and get creative!
why is there a song like this on the background? its a serious issue and the sound is so random whyyyyy
not me watching this as i eat a whole bag of flaming hot cheetos
tree bark is a superfood(don't believe me, well you know what to do.. ………….butyric acid). antioxidants are good before sleep not at the beginning of the day, humans' are omnivores so you need animalia' proteins to be healthy – or disease free/resistant… Complex meals are essential 1x or > / day. complex carbs for breakfast, and no food after 8. *manages/mitigates Toxoplasma. NIH:: 3 billion people worldwide have been infected with it.. 🍒🥐🥩🚀🦍🍺⚡🫏🔬–Cloverdale(pronunciation of the matriarch, mine. It happened with reservation now, so when asked….) Covid-~19, was ~700 mil so TP is 3-5 time more people…..
Why are bad farming practices blamed on the consumers?
Another observation: So, vegan diets do not save the plant? You do not say.
no grain is healthy for human. it's bird food
There is no superfood, these are advertisements to promote products to be sold at high prices, and these companies are liars and are deceiving people.
Superfood is a great way to upcharge some foods.
why dont you tell about corporations and sustainability instead of trying to guilt-trip individuals?
DW is on the right track 👏
11:52 wish they'd done testing for nutritional profile to make a comparison. crazy how they are selling to consumers what is poor quality food at high quality prices. too many business' operate this way. They ravage lands and people all over the world for a barely passable product. all so frustrating. 13:07 i'd by straight from farmers if i could a few farms do have platforms to do so but not enough. I am ok paying extra to know my food wasn't made by abusing others. having to take the word of fair trade claims from large corporations never sits right with me.