This isn’t really my area of expertise, so someone else may want to correct me! I don’t think that there’s one particular food that is healthier than everything else. There are lots of generally healthy food though, and the best thing you can do is to have a balanced diet that includes lots of different types of food, rather than one single type. so that means eating a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrain foods, and lean meats.
There is no one food that is the ‘healthiest’. That’s because as humans we need to eat a combination of food to ensure we are getting the right levels of vitamins, minerals and can generate energy to stay alive and perform our daily activities.
There are some foods that have lots of nutrients needed for good health. There is a concept called ‘nutrient density’ that is used to indicate which foods have the highest nutritional value.
Nutrient density is a measure of the amount of nutrients a food contains in comparison to the number of calories. A food is more nutrient dense when the level of nutrients is high in relationship to the number of calories the food contains.
As you would probably expect, foods with high nutrient density are vegetables like asparagus, carrots, spinach and tomatoes. Fruit like apricots, blueberries, strawberries and pineapple. Eggs, yoghurt, fish (e.g., cod & salmon), lean meat, nuts and seeds and surprisingly, herbs and spices are also nutrient dense (e.g., ginger, chillies and mint).
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