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Buffaloberry: Reverse Tanning Bed Damage
A bright red, tart berry found in western North America.
Health Perks:
Buffaloberries contain high levels of lycopene, the antioxidant that makes tomatoes red. Lycopene has long been associated with lowering the risk of lung, stomach and prostate cancer. Besides being easier to pronounce than acai and doing a solid for your insides, lycopene helps your outside, too. It's been shown to reduce sun damage by UV rays by whopping 30 percent in a three-month span. Anything that reverses skin damage and prevents cancer that is also edible seems like, um, a berry good idea.
How to Eat It:
If you're in the Dakotas, you can probably throw open your front door, step out onto the prairie and pick yourself a whole bushel o' berries, but other regions aren't so lucky. Buffaloberry isn't widely available yet, but, given its anti-all-the-bad-things properties, the dried version of the berry should be coming soon to a Whole Foods near you.
"Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food." So said Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. With this list of superfoods, you can toss the contents of your medicine cabinet entirely, and rely on your kitchen pantry instead.
What are superfoods? Oh, just your not-so-average edible plant matter packed with disease-battling, cancer-preventing, skin-saving miracle nutrients. To make our list, these foods had to have more than just street cred and a wispy celebrity endorsement -- these claims are backed by science and supported by health professionals.
Click through to see which berries, grains and seeds joined the ranks of kale, quinoa, chia seeds and acai in the superfood echelon.
What are superfoods? Oh, just your not-so-average edible plant matter packed with disease-battling, cancer-preventing, skin-saving miracle nutrients. To make our list, these foods had to have more than just street cred and a wispy celebrity endorsement -- these claims are backed by science and supported by health professionals.
Click through to see which berries, grains and seeds joined the ranks of kale, quinoa, chia seeds and acai in the superfood echelon.
