Healthiest Foods - The Most Nutrient Dense Foods Around

The healthiest foods are usually foods that are natural, unprocessed and extremely nutrient dense.

Below is a small list of foods that are my favorite healthiest foods not because i particularly like the taste of them but because they are pack full of vital and often under-consumed nutrients.

These foods are very much summarized here. Click on the food name to go to the full article on the food.

1. Liver: Liver is really one of the most nutrient dense foods you can find. A brief summary out lining the benefits of liver is:

- Natures most concentrated source of vitamin A.

- It is a really great source of really high quality protein.

- All the B vitamins in abundance, particularly vitamin B12.

- One of the best sources of folic acid.

- A highly usable from of folic acid.

- Our best source of copper.

- coQ10 which is important for cardiovascular function.

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2. Raw (unpasteurized and unhomogenized) Milk: Rather than telling you the many nutritional benefits of drinking raw milk i will briefly summarize how pasteurizing damages the milk:

- Destroys all the vitamin A

- Destroys about 38% of the vitamin B complex

- vitamin C is weakened or destroyed by pasteurization

- After pasteurization the total of soluble calcium is very much diminished

- Pasteurization harms the fat content of milk

- Digestibility of protein is reduced by 4% and the biological value is reduced by 17%

-The enzymes in milk are completely destroyed including the enzymes that help you digest calcium and lactose

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3. Eggs:

Eggs are such a simple food that most people like and are able to consume on a regular basis. Eating free range organic eggs is far better than you than eating eggs from caged animals.

Some benefits of eggs are:

- High vitamin A content

- Hight protein content and a very high biological value

- An ideal ratio of omega 3 : omega 6 fatty acids

- Good amount of vitamin D