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When I was a teenager, all I pretty much ate was raw food and I loved experimenting with new foods like cacao nibs, lucuma, goji berries, and maca. It was such an adventure and I loved how I felt when I incorporated more superfoods into my diet. Since then, I’ve become a lot more balanced with my diet and I don\u2019t exclusively eat raw foods (actually, now I don\u2019t think I eat enough raw foods\u2026so lately I’ve been trying to amp it up).<\/p>\n
Anyway, one superfood I have heard so much about, but never tried, is spirulina.<\/p>\n
So when I got the opportunity through FitFluential<\/a> to try it out I was super excited. I love using superfoods in my diet \u2013 especially in smoothies. I know it\u2019s great for energy and who can\u2019t use more of that?!<\/p>\n Okay, so what\u2019s so great about spirulina?<\/p>\n So it\u2019s kind of a superhero food \u2013 with crazy protein, energy, healing properties, and immunity boosting powers. I\u2019m all over it.<\/p>\n I had so much fun exploring this site called the Spirulina Junkie<\/a> \u2013 about a girl who\u2019s so crazy about spirulina that she devotes a whole blog to it. It\u2019s got fantastic recipes (which I will be trying!), reviews, photos, and blog posts. She even has an e-book<\/a> just chock full of recipes.<\/p>\n They sent me Astaxanthin (more about that in a minute) and some spiruluna supplements<\/a>.<\/p>\n I think the spirulina is going to be my new magic energy pill. My fellow FitFluential ambassador Jessie Ann<\/a> even mentioned that she grew up taking a tablet under the tongue<\/a> to stop cravings for junk food\u2026and it worked.<\/p>\n Seriously though\u2026isn’t that green pretty? I know it sounds weird, but I love green foods\u2026the colour of green just speaks of life and health.<\/p>\n One of my favourite things to do with superfoods of the algae family is mix it with grapefruit and Truvia. Oh my goodness. I know it looks really odd, but it\u2019s really good. That right there, is superhero food.<\/p>\n I also get to try this Astaxanthin<\/a>, which is one of the most powerful antioxidants ever. I thought that was blueberries\u2019 claim to fame, but I guess this stuff wins. It helps heal your body after exercise (great for us active people), supports joints and immune system, promotes anti-aging, supports eye health, and even supports your skin when you\u2019re in the sun. Yo, I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s more<\/em>\u2026tonight (Monday, June 4th<\/sup>) there will be a super fun twitter chat at 8 PM (CST) about all these superstar foods. I hear there are some fantastic prizes…like really! Be sure to follow @supernutrient and @suzycohen so you don\u2019t miss anything and use the hashtag #SuperNutrients<\/p>\n FitFluential LLC compensated me for this campaign. All opinions are from my very own head. I am super stoked about using these products. Have you tried spirulina? What other superfoods have you had experience with? What\u2019s your favourite one?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was a teenager, all I pretty much ate was raw food and I loved experimenting with new foods like cacao nibs, lucuma, goji berries, and maca. It was such an adventure and I loved how I felt when I incorporated more superfoods into my diet. Since then, I’ve become a lot more balanced with my diet and I don\u2019t exclusively eat raw foods… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,290,633,15],"tags":[819,820,816,67,821,815,823,814,818,817,813,812,822],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"new](\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new-Spirulina_Logo_1-510x510.jpg\" "\\"new"){kind=logo}
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