Which is the main superpower entrusted to kale. It's like how much bad stuff they can absorb so your body doesn't. In fact (again believing websites as I do), let’s look at the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) value of kale - the "oxygen radical absorbance capacity of food". Suddenly it seems a little crowded in the Avenger room. And also, even the site admits, savoy cabbage, beets and arugula. It's a "nutritional powerhouse" that is overflowing with antioxidants, only bettered by garlic, red cabbage and sweet potato. professes 10 different health benefits for kale and goes on to list four of these. And, for the 10th time, he is an astrophysicist and knows nothing about kale or superfoods.Īnyway, Google directs me to many sites proclaiming the amazing qualities of kale. So what is it about food that needs to be declared ‘'super’' to make it appealing? And is this accurate? Are they indeed in disguise like so many Clark Kents? Needing to research the supposed superfood quality in kale, I rang my scientist friend.Īfter a pause, he rather gruffly admonishes me to stop calling at three in the morning - if I ever call him again he'll call the police to reinstate that restraining order. It must be thinking, with the same desperation of Popeye, “Oh, what am I? Some kinda barnicle on the dinghy of life?" And over there the Brussels sprouts are inconsolable - I think people are watching me now as I play-act the accents on all the green vegies - " Merde, but we taste the same.” I think it's a Jean-Claude van Damme accent. I look down from the kale at the display of decidedly un-super spinach. Even amongst this group, kale is the superhero needed to rescue the situation. You’ll buy a cold-pressed juice and it’ll have this list of ingredients – carrot, celery, ginger, beetroot, orange – but the star ingredient is kale. I note at the markets that kale has been transformed, much like Peter Parker when bitten by that radioactive spider, to a "super food". As a witty Facebook friend says, the only things that are super are heroes and phosphate. My main message though, surely, would be don’t believe all that bunk about kale being a superfood.
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