5 good-for-you, bizzare foods

The Today Show is hosting a "5 Things" series this week and I wanted to pass along daily what I am learning. Monday it was "5 good-for-you, bizarre foods," all packed with outstanding nutritive value. Most of these foods have been eaten in other countries for centuries and are just now coming to the US: Acai (an Amazonian berry, packed with tons of healthy fatty acids and antioxidants), alligator and crocodile meat (leaner than most other meats, low in choloesteral, and high in Omega 3's), cupuacu (relative of the cacoa tree; helps with abdominal pain and has healing properties for the skin), laver bread (simliar to seaweed; packed with vitamins and minerals, and high in protein), and yerba mate (though I was not a child of the 60s, I guess this was very popular back then; relieves stress and is packed with antioxidants).

I went to Whole Foods yesterday and bought some Acai juice off the shelf (coconut-pinapple flavor); it's 100% juice, and gives you one serving of fruit/vegetables for the day. Delicious!

Click here to read further (it's short!). The video segment is also short and worthwhile because it gives more information than the brief reading.