health foods

Apricots have been a valued food for so long that just where and when they were first domesticated are facts lost in time. The scientific name Prunus Armeniaca links them to Armenia where they have certainly been grown for centuries and where fifty varieties are produced today. 

If you are making the big lifestyle switch The Vegan Society recommends you should eat: five a day; starchy, higher fibre foods at every meal; protein rich foods at most meals; nuts and seeds every day; and calcium-rich foods every day.

What were the foods that gave the last year its special flavour? Based on your choices at Grape Tree this is our chart of your plant-based top ten. With a few reasons why, you might have bought them.

Porridge is much more than just a warming comfort on a chilly morning. Because oats are packed with nutrients, protein, fibre and minerals and, as a whole grain, deliver a string of health benefits. 

Brazils have bounced back! After freak weather in 2017 left the Amazon with dramatically reduced rainfall nut trees in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil shed their seed pods early and the crop failure left the world dramatically short of Brazil supplies. The question was, as we reported in the Spring, would the Amazonia rainfall return to normal and would the trees recover this year?

Can What We Eat Protect How We See? It is now accepted that a healthy diet, including those five a day, is an important part of looking after our eyes and protecting them against problems including cataracts, cloudy areas in the lens of the eye, and AMD, age-related macular degeneration.

New research has underscored just how many of us are missing out on important nutrients in our diets. The findings show that more than 50 per cent of women are living with a deficiency of selenium and more than a quarter are below recommended levels of both iron and potassium.

We all know that following a healthy diet is a must to protect our bodies and in particular our hearts. But what about the brain? 

Almonds are booming. World production is for the first time bursting through the one million tons mark and the global appetite for this super nut seems insatiable.