Apples
Banana: When the bananas over-ripen they are less healthy and go to starch/sugar.
Barley: Cook like brown rice then stir fry or add to soup. My favorite is soup made with pork and spinach. I slice the fresh spinach thin, and cube a cooked pork chop. I season it with fresh cilantro and black pepper (and yes, a little bacon fat)
Beans
Beets: All parts of the beet are highly nutritious. The leaves taste best when young and tender.
Birch sugar: see xylitol
Fats:
Kale: Kale is nutritionally sound, but Swiss Chard tastes better, has a nicer texture, and is just as nutritious.
Milk: Whole milk = good, skim milk = bad. Why? Because the cholesterol in the skim milk is oxidized due to processing and because the vitamins are skimmed out, particularly vital vitamin K. There is no scientific validity to the widespread belief that the fat in milk is bad for us.
Millet: Which is gluten free millet? A must have Superfood or a goitrogenic substance? Link
Molasses: Like honey and maple syrup much of what is sold in the supermarkets is just flavored sugar, but real blackstrap molasses has many health benefits.
Potatoes: Yukon Golds and other colored potatoes have less starch than russets, but otherwise their nutrition is about the same except the russets contain about 25% more fiber. The starch in potatoes turns into glucose which is a healthier kind of sugar and is absorbed slowly compared to fructose which does not curb the appetite.
Protein: Strings of Amino acids that make up the building blocks of our bodies. Meat is protein, but other sources are lentils and peas, green beans, soy, peanuts, etc.
Quinoa: Leaves and Seed of the seeds are edible Seeds must be rinsed of the saponins before cooking. Contains omega3 and quertecin. Contains all nine essential amino acids. See protein. Note however that that quinoa seed is 53 on the Glycemic index (white potato is 82)
Radish: Delicious sprouts! Radish roots help the thyroid.
Rice syrup: More glucose than fructose (see sucrose), but very high glycemic (98 compared to 54 for maple syrup or 15 for birch sugar)
Spinach:
Sugar
Sweeteners: Sugar found in unprocessed foods is less harmful than artificial and processed sugar. One reason is that the fiber (in fruit for example) helps trap the sugar so that it can pass safely through the body. Look up fructose vs glucose. See Rice Syrup, Agave Syrup, Pure Glucose Syrup = Dextrose, ____, _______,
Sweet potato: Tender young sweet potato leaves are a good food. Adjust liquid nutes if you want more leaves or more roots. Note: Ornamental sweet potatoes are an entirely different plant and toxic.
Swiss Chard:
Vitamin K: Found in lactofermented foods such as sauerkraut.
Wheat
Xylitol: