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Sama Hoole

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Every superfood in the shop got its halo from a single nutrient, and most of them can't even deliver that one. Spinach is sold on iron. You absorb about 2% of it. The carrot is sold on vitamin A. It contains none. The banana is sold on potassium. A 300g ribeye carries more than twice as much, without the three teaspoons of sugar. Kale is sold on vitamin K. It is K1, the clotting kind. The K2 that sends calcium to your bones lives in cheese, butter and yolk. The walnut is sold on omega-3. It is the plant kind your body barely converts, with four times as much omega-6 along for the ride. The avocado is sold on oleic acid, the fat that made olive oil respectable. Beef fat is about 40% oleic, and you were told to cut it off. The lentil is sold on protein. It carries twice as much carbohydrate, and runs so short of methionine that the vegetarian cookbooks tell you to pair it with rice. Porridge is sold on beta-glucan, for your cholesterol. The claim was granted on Quaker's own petition in 1997, and the oats are two thirds carbohydrate. The mushroom is sold on vitamin D. A UV lamp in the packing shed put it there, and it is D2, the weaker kind. The blueberry is sold on antioxidants. The USDA withdrew its antioxidant scores in 2012, on the grounds that they meant nothing inside a human body. Brown rice is sold on the minerals in its bran. The bran also carries the phytate that locks them away, and about 80% more arsenic than white. Almond milk is sold on calcium. It is about 2% almonds, and the calcium is powdered chalk. Breakfast cereal is sold on iron. It is metal powder mixed in at the factory, and you can pull it out of the bowl with a magnet. Every halo on that list is one nutrient wide. An egg yolk hands over the vitamin A, the vitamin D, the K2, the DHA and the oleic acid, finished and ready to use. In 1968 the American Heart Association rationed it to three a week. One nutrient buys a plant a halo. Five bought the yolk a ration.

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