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Bring the movie theatre to you this fall with immune supporting vitamins and minerals you can add to your favorite snack– POPCORN!
As a whole grain, popcorn is high in fiber, making it both low-calorie and super filling. It’s also an excellent source of B-Complex vitamins, as well as vitamin A, E, and K. Adding delicious toppings to this classic can give your 100-calorie snacks a boost with incredible superfoods you already have in your home.
Our living rooms are already the best movie theatres around, so bust out the popcorn!
- Nutritional Yeast: Use it like parmesan–generously, and on everything– and enjoy the protein and B-12 it brings. Paired with other spices it becomes a savory must-have that will keep you wanting more.
- Blackstrap Molasses: Powdered, this nutritional powerhouse adds flavor depth and sweetness in addition to iron, calcium, magnesium, and selenium.
- Dulse flakes: Dulse is an amazing seasoning, made from seaweed, that adds a salty and unique savory flavor along with iodine, potassium, zinc, Omega-3 and Omega-6.
- Dukka: This Egyptian blend of nuts, herbs, and spices is great on all kinds of savory snacks.
The fat from the nuts helps the vitamins and antioxidants in the popcorn, and the herbs and spices absorb into your system. - Crushed Rosemary, Rubbed Sage, and Granulated Roasted Garlic: Fill your home with the smell of these beloved aromatics that also happen to have the strongest antiviral traits, in addition to rich antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds.
- Apple Cider Vinegar: The tangy flavor of ACV is a perfect compliment to salty, crunchy popcorn, and it comes loaded with it’s famous digestive power. Bonus, it’s the best way to get the superfoods above to stick to your popcorn. Mix one 1 TBS into 1 cup of water and load it into a spray bottle, spray lightly and toss with your superfoods.
- Cinnamon and Ginger: Popcorn can be great for a sweet tooth, but this flavor combo can be done with or without sugar. Cinnamon and ginger add a sweet and spicy flavor along with improved insulin sensitivity, increased metabolic rate, and immune support. More ideas to try: moringa, matcha, ground flaxseed, powdered shiitake
Suzi’s book, Plant-Based Gourmet: Vegan Cuisine for the Home Chef, comes out in December. In her book, Chef Suzi highlights more than 150 high-end restaurant-quality dishes with easy instructions for even the most advanced techniques like sous vide and foams and plating and styling, so you can make Instagram-worthy dishes that influencers will envy.
ABOUT SUZANNAH GERBER
Chef Suzi is a plant-based executive chef, specializing in world cuisine and superfood medicine. She is the former Executive Chef and General Director for Prestige Hospitality leading concepts such as Pressed.
Chef Suzi is a well-known chef, culinary medicine and food industry consultant. Her company Haven Foods is a network of plant-based product and business developers serving all aspects of the food supply chain, all committed to greener, cleaner, sustainable vegan food. Chef Suzi has worked with companies all over the world helping to make plant-based foods accessible and delicious. Her food and recipes have been sold in Whole Foods, and utilized in kitchens, consumer goods, and medical studies across the world.
A native of Washington, DC, Suzi is an avid explorer, traveling the world studying fashions and flavors, and observing the relationship between food, behavior, and health in the US, the UK, Peru, Germany, India, Spain, Turkey, and Australia. Chef Suzi currently lives and works in the Boston area, and grows edible and medicinal plants for herself and works with community food security projects in her free time.
