Top superfoods to complement your yoga journey and enhance your performance
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Before you buy the powder
Every few months a new food is announced as essential. Most of these claims are marketing, and none of them will do more for your practice than sleeping properly. That said, a few foods genuinely earn their place, mostly because they are nutrient-dense, cheap and easy to eat often.
Practical ways to eat them
The test is not whether a food is impressive. It is whether you will still be eating it in March.
- Overnight oats made the evening before an early class.
- A jar of cooked lentils in the fridge on a Sunday.
- Greens added to whatever you are already cooking, not as a separate dish.
- Nuts in the bag you take to class.
- Beetroot juice before a strong practice, if you enjoy it.
- Yoghurt or kefir at breakfast, if dairy suits you.
- Seeds kept on the table, so they end up on everything.
Every one of those is a habit rather than a purchase, which is the only reason any of them work.
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What “superfood” actually means
Commercially, it means a food with a good story and a high margin. Nutritionally, it means nothing at all; there is no regulated definition. The useful question is not whether a food is exceptional but whether you will eat it twice a week for a year.
No berry has ever improved anybody's chaturanga. Eating enough, sleeping enough and turning up have a considerably better record.
The ones worth keeping in the cupboard
Oats, for slow-releasing energy before an early class. Lentils and beans, for protein that does not need cooking skill. Leafy greens, for magnesium, which most people are short of and which matters for muscle function. Nuts and seeds, for fat and minerals in a form you can carry in a bag. Yoghurt or kefir, if dairy suits you. Beetroot, which has better evidence behind it than most of the list.
What to spend your attention on instead
Eating enough overall, drinking enough water, and getting enough sleep will do more for your practice than any single ingredient. If you are going to change one thing this month, make it the sleep. If you are going to change two, add breakfast.
The rest is preference. Eat food you like, often enough that it becomes ordinary, and let the practice be the part you work at.
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