Superfoods started to become trendy a few years ago, and are becoming more popular every day in peoples kitchens! However there are still many that are not quite caught up on the superfood fad….. but it is not to late to start 🙂
Superfoods are amongst the most powerful sources of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, and deliver 2-3x more nutrition than regular foods, so by implementing them into your daily diet through smoothies, juices, salads, or in snacks, combined with a predominantly based diet,  you will be maximising your intake of vital nutrients every day! Hello to vibrant health, glowing skin and loads of energy!Â
Here is a list of my favourites and the health, wellbeing and beauty benefits they have!
Spirulina: Mega detoxifying, curbs cravings, promotes weight-loss, lowers blood pressure, boosts energy, helps eliminate bad bacteria in your gut, detoxify’s heavy metals. Spurilna is made up of 60% protein and a wonderful source of vitamins skin loving A, age defying K1, K2, B12 and iron, manganese and chromium, that helps with energy, and your nervous system.
Chlorella: Boosts your energy, a powerful cleanser for your liver, kidney’s and colon, lowers cholesterol, curbs cravings, aids weight-loss, strengthens your immune system, mega beautifying, and age defying.
Maca: Balances hormones, boost’s mood and memory, energising, helps with fertility, contains over 20 amino acids, in which 8 are essential amino acids amazing for your skin, brain, heart and immune health.
Acai berries: Highly energising, helps combat oxidation which accelerates ageing and lifestyle illnesses, boosts brain health, curbs cravings, promotes weight-loss, aids digestion, rich in vitamin A, B’s, manganese, and iron.
Cacao:Â Highly nutrient dense, elevates your mood, and very energising, helps boost metabolism, rich in iron to help prevent anaemia, helps remove unwanted fat and built up toxins easier, rich in magnesium to help with the nervous system, and anxiety.
Cayenne Pepper: Promotes digestion, boosts metabolism, helps remove unwanted fat, and toxins in your body, highly cleansing and detoxifying, helps relieve joint and arthritis pain.
Turmeric: a very powerful antioxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, highly anti-ageing, strong flu fighter, and the cleanses liver.
Coconut oil:Â A multipurpose superfood, amazing beauty health and beauty benefits form the inside out. Anti-bacterial, healthy source of fat, to help remove unwanted bile. Fab for your skin, and hair applied topically as well as a amazing make up remover and moisturiser.
Flax seeds:Â Excellent source of Omega 3, to boost brian, skin and heart health, fab source of dietary fibre to help keep you fuller for longer.
Chia seeds:Â Balances your blood sugar levels, which causes cravings, a fab source of dietary fibre, anti-ageing, and beautifying, slows sugar absorption, fills you up for longer, amazing for heart health, and keeping cholesterol down.
The best way to include them in your daily diet is adding them to smoothies, juices, or sprinkling on salads, soups or gluten free grain beauty bowls! Â
Head to Ashfab Nutrition on youtube to get my elixir of life wake up wellness water recipe, that includes turmeric and cayenne pepper to help kick start your morning the healthy way, that boosts your metabolism, helps flush fat and toxins.
A fabulous brand I recommend that contains a plethora of superfoods in each blend is by Naomi Buff the founder of Naomis kitchen and I AM superfoods blends making it easier to get a ton of super foods in a few sip:-)
Ashley xoxoxoÂ