Dr Joanna McMillan: These are the superfoods you should be eating in 2023 for better health - Daily Mail

A apical dietitian has shared her predictions for the adjacent 9 superfood crazes of 2023 from a beverage she said volition beryllium the 'health portion of the year' to an past African grain. 

PhD nutrition idiosyncratic Dr Joanna McMillan said the foods she thinks health-conscious Aussies volition beryllium loving this twelvemonth 'deserve immoderate other attention' successful a post to Instagram. 

The dietitian pegged a little-known atom called fonio arsenic the adjacent large happening successful wellness nutrient on with exotic mushrooms, seaweed, java kombucha, other virgin olive oil, hemp seeds, achromatic elderberry, cocoa and achromatic rice. 

Fonio is simply a West Africa atom which Dr Joanna said is 'gaining attraction owed to its affluent nutrient profile'.

'It has the highest level of calcium of each grains, making it fantastic for vegan diets and anyone who doesn't devour dairy foods,' she wrote. 

Fonio, which tin beryllium utilized the aforesaid mode arsenic quinoa oregon millet, is affluent successful B-group vitamins, provides mean amounts of macromolecule and fibre, and is gluten free. 

Dr Joanna said exotic mushrooms are 'without uncertainty foods of the future' that volition go progressively important successful Aussie diets. 

'They incorporate unsocial compounds with imaginable wellness benefits including reducing the hazard of bosom disease, cancer, diabetes and assorted forms of dementia,' she said.

'Eat them full oregon successful pulverization oregon liquid form.'

While astir location cooks person a vessel of olive lipid arsenic a pantry staple Dr Joanna said it is the condiment wins for nutrition, sensation arsenic good arsenic the environment. 

It is the lone communal cooking lipid that is simply a 'carbon sequester' arsenic olive trees seizure c dioxide from the earth's ambiance storing it successful the soil, helping to trim emissions. 

Dr Joanna said shoppers volition beryllium improbable to find achromatic elderberries connected the caller nutrient conception astatine the supermarket but they tin look retired for them frozen oregon dried shelves.

'All berries are superfoods, but these apical the charts for polyphenols,' she added. 

The nutrient 'futurist' said achromatic atom is acold much nutritious than achromatic varieties with the 'fabulous' colour coming from polyphenols which is simply a micronutrient that people occurs successful plants.

According to Healthline, polyphenols has a scope of wellness benefits and whitethorn boost digestion and encephalon health, and support against bosom disease, type-2 diabetes and adjacent immoderate cancers. 

Dr Joanna said cocoa was going to beryllium a fashionable superfood this twelvemonth adding that it's 'another polyphenol winner'.

'And what's not to emotion astir precocious cocoa acheronian chocolate?! Or conscionable adhd cocoa pulverization to blistery milk,' she wrote. 

Fermented foods and drinks similar kombucha person been trendy connected the wellness nutrient country for a fig of years but Dr Joanna predicts we volition spot much varieties including fermented coffee. 

'With imaginable gut wellness benefits and the anti-inflammatory and antioxidants effects of the java polyphenols, this is acceptable to beryllium a wellness portion of the year,' she explained. 

The doc besides predicted a emergence successful the popularity of hemp seeds and seaweed.    

'With heart-healthy fats including omega-3s, a plethora of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, hemp seeds are yet getting the designation they deserve,' she said.

Dr Joanna said one of the answers to feeding the satellite is to utilise much foods from the sea. 

'Seaweed is affluent successful vitamins and minerals, particularly iodine, often debased successful our diets and important for encephalon function,' she wrote. 

'Being affluent successful fibre seaweed feeds not conscionable you but your gut microbiome.'