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Skeptoid #86: MonaVie and Other "Superfruit" Juices by Brian Dunning #monavie #superfruit #acai #goji #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot Superfruit juices are nothing more than super ripoffs. Don't waste your money.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4086

The People Who Risk Their Lives to Harvest #Açaí (Video)

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/harvest-0018132

Many #superfood trends contribute to environmentally-degrading #monoculture practices to keep up with demand, particularly with #crops and places in the #GlobalSouth where monoculture hasn't traditionally been used to grow those crops. It also leaves the communities that grow them economically vulnerable when the trend inevitably fades.

#Kale may be an exception to this, since it grows well in gardens in temperate climates. But generally, trendy superfoods tend to be "exotic" crops from the tropics, or the Global South more broadly. There's often an indigenous cultural association that gets appropriated by the trend.

The one I know the most about is #quinoa. Quinoa is a grain which has been cultivated for millennia by indigenous Andeans, since it grows well in high and dry areas such as are common in the #Andes. It filled some #nutrition gaps that would have otherwise been present in a typical Andean diet: in particular, as a high-protein grain, it helped make up for the relative scarcity of meat. This is not something that most Americans who can afford to partake in superfood trends have to worry about.

Traditionally, quinoa had been grown in small crops by subsistence and small-scale farmers, alongside other crops like corn and potatoes. But when it became a superfood, it suddenly became profitable to grow large fields of only quinoa. These fields expanded rapidly onto fragile soil, depleting the scarce water and nutrients that had taken very long periods of time to incorporate into the soil.

The #ecosystem that depended on the soil collapsed. For a while, the farmers who made the transition to monoculture were making more money, but even then, most of the profits went to the corporate distributors in the US, and those farmers who couldn't or didn't make the switch were pushed out of the market. Then, when the trend faded, the money stopped coming in altogether, leaving indigenous Andean communities without money or ecological well-being, while Americans simply moved on without a second thought.

Almost all superfoods can be nutritionally replaced with more local crops, in combination. #Açaí, for instance, is considered a superfood because of its high content of antioxidants, fiber, omega-3s, and calcium. Blueberries and spinach (they don't have to be in the same meal) together have the same properties. Beans and rice are a combination that has been independently invented in a variety of different versions around the world, largely because they are two staple crops that form a complete protein together. They can replace quinoa, especially if you use brown rice.

It can be exciting to try foods from another place. It can feel adventurous and cosmopolitan. It can also help us connect with the people and cultures from which it comes, but only if we fundamentally change the way we approach it. Our current way of thinking and doing, when it comes to trying new foods, is deeply rooted in #colinialism. Superfood trends are a prime example of this fact.

Lastly, the idea that we need to eat certain foods and have a certain diet to be healthy is inherently #fatphobic. Health is systemic, and goes far beyond individual consumer choices. Nobody can sell us good health, and our belief otherwise only serves to give money to capitalists. The pressure to have the right diet, and to appear healthy under a fatphobic conception of what that means, creates immense social and psychological harm to people who can't. That harm is vastly greater than any actual harm to health from being fat itself. And there are many reasons why people can't meet the pressures of fatphobic society: poverty, disability, etc. It isn't any of our business, or our job to "fix" fat people; we need to fix society instead. We also need not fear becoming fat: that's being afraid of being like another real person, and also big business for #capitalism.

Heute wieder ein neuer Beitrag in ReiseFreak's #ReiseMagazin und #ReiseBlog

Exotisch, frisch und reich an Früchten – die Kulinarik des brasilianischen Amazonasgebietes

Embratur: Sao Paulo/Frankfurt (ots)

"Die" brasilianische Küche gibt

https://reisefreak.de/exotisch-frisch-und-reich-an-fruechten-die-kulinarik-des-brasilianischen-amazonasgebietes/

#ReiseNews #Açaí #Brasilien #EnteinTucupi #Essen #Esskultur #Maniçoba #OTSnews #Tambaqui-Eintopf #Tourismus #Trinken #Urlaub

Açaí berries, a popular so-called #superfood, have been linked to a recent outbreak of #Chagas disease in Brazil. Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted through the feces of triatomine insects ("kissing bugs"). If untreated, Chagas may lead to congestive heart failure and megaesophagus. Past outbreaks have led to a recommendation that #açaí juice should be pasteurized.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/18-0646_article

Eva Ledezma & Juan Carlos Copete talking about sustainable management of the fruits of #Euterpe oleracea #murrapo #acai in the #Choco #Colombia. #XICCB2022 @inst_humboldt