Does anyone have a recipe for a vegetable or veggie kind of trail mix?!
Does anyone have a recipe for a vegetable or veggie kind of trail mix?
I have been unable to find a recipe that is either freeze-dried, or dehydrated. Can anyone help?
Many thanks.
Answers:
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1. Dried cherries (1/4 cup)
Picked from orchards in the Great Lakes region, cherries have twice as many antioxidants as red grapes and may help fight arthritis.
Try: Welch's Dried Cherries, $4; supermarkets
2. Brazil nuts (6 nuts, halved)
The seed of a giant South American Amazon tree, each "nut" contains 10 times the recommended intake of selenium, a mineral with heart-helping antioxidants.
Try: Whole Foods Market Raw Brazil Nuts, $5; Whole Foods stores
3. Dried yacon (1/4 cup)
This Peruvian-grown vegetable looks and tastes like a dried Granny Smith apple. It's high in cancer-fighting flavonoids and digestion-promoting chlorogenic acid.
Try: Navitas Naturals Raw Dried Yacon Slices, $5.95; Whole Foods and Vitamin Shoppe stores
4. Dried goji berries (1/4 cup)
This tart Chinese fruit (think cranberry meets green tea) provides 18 amino acids, which help maintain and repair body cells.
Try: Woodstock Farms Natural Goji Berries, $7; grocery and health food stores
5. Cacao nibs (1/4 cup)
Grown in the rain forests of Ecuador and Peru, this raw chocolate has up to four times the flavonoids of more processed varieties, helping to lower blood pressure. Chocolate-covered nibs are sweeter.
Try: Natural Zing Raw Organic Cacao Nibs, $9.90; naturalzing.com; Dagoba Organic Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs, $9; select health food stores
6. Jungle peanuts (1/4 cup)
From the Ecuadorian Amazon, these soft and meaty nuts are a good source of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat recently linked to cancer prevention.
Try: Sunfood Nutrition Organic Wild Amazonian Jungle Peanuts, $9; sunfood.com
Nutritional info per 1/4 cup (makes 6 servings): 146 cal, 3 g pro, 17 g carb, 7.5 g fat, 1 g sat fat, 0 mg chol, 3 g fiber, 14 mg sodium