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What is a super food?

By Carla Bevan on Wednesday 23 April 2008

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We hear a lot about them, but just what is a super food?

In an age when there's a new headline each week about what we should and shouldn't eat (is red wine good for us, or not, should we binge on dark chocolate, or leave it on the shelf?), working out what is and isn't a super food is a foodie minefield.

Thankfully, the good news is, eating the right things isn't as hard as the broadsheets would have us believe.

Everything from bananas to brown rice, strawberries to soybeans and figs to fennel, counts as a super food - and there's a whole lot more in-between.

To get you started, we've put together a series of super food lists - just click on the links below to learn more.

10 BEST SUPER FOODS

10 BEST SKIN-PERFECTING SUPER FOODS

10 BEST MOOD-BOOSTING SUPER FOODS

10 BEST ENERGY-BOOSTING SUPER FOODS

For further reading, we highly recommend SuperFoods, SuperFast by Michael van Straten and Barbara Griggs. Complete with recipes and diet plans, SuperFoods, SuperFast sorts the fact from the fiction and is a worthy addition to every health-aware Marie Claire reader's bookshelf.

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Words by Carla Bevan, Wednesday 23 April 2008