My Ingredients

This is a partial list of the ingredients from which I make all my products. You will notice that I do not add any artificial anything. No artificial sweeteners, no artificial colourings, no flavour enhancers, no preservatives, no fillers - nothing. I don’t put them in the food I make for me, why should I put them in the food I make for you? My purpose is to create something that will be of significant immediate and long-term nutritional benefit for you.

Unfortunately I have not yet sourced a purely natural vanilla essence and some of the foods (coconut and dried fruit) come to me with preservative added so I cannot honestly advise you that there is no preservative whatsoever in my products but I am working on it.

Per World’s Healthiest Foods, nutrient dense foods provide health benefits senior to the caloric input to your dietary intake. To qualify they must also be whole foods that are familiar, affordable, readily available and tasty. That’s why a lot more of our ingredients did not make the list. Despite having a high nutrient content, many are not familiar, readily available and affordable. Several of my ingredients cost me over $150 a kilo.

Superfoods are those rich in antioxidants, vitamins, dietary fibre and other factors thought to confer an additional health benefit. Each of the ingredients I have flagged as having Superfood status was acknowledged as such on one or more web sites I visited. Truth be known, probably a lot more of my ingredients truly are superfood, they just have not yet been acknowledged as such.

Many foods operate synergistically with others in ways that are only just now being researched. For instance in Feb 2011 I learned of research that found taking broccoli and chicken together gave 13 times the anti-cancer benefit of each individually.

Antioxidants operate like that. Hort Research in New Zealnd found that taking antioxidants together has more than an additive effect, it has a cumulative effect. When I read that article I was pleased to see that the four antioxidants they tested for their research (Acai, Cacao, Camu Camu and Goji) were all in my top bar. Intrigued I researched the antioxidant property of each of my ingredients and found every single one of the ingredients iun my top bars had antioxidant benefits. Increased my enthusiasm for eating even more of my own product it did!

Where I was able to find an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbent Capacity - the measure of how effective is an antioxidant in scavenging free readicals) score I have included it, otherwise I have indicated that it does have antioxidant properties.

Ingredient List for the Healthelicious Product Range

Ingredient Name	Gluten Free	Certified Organic	Nutrient Dense	Super Food	Anti- Oxidant	Anti- Cancer	Toxin Chelator
acai berry powder	Yes	Yes		Yes	102,700
almonds	Yes		Yes	Yes	4,454
apricot kernels	Yes	Yes
apricot dried	Yes	Yes			3,234
astragalus	Yes				Yes
bacopa/brahmi	Yes				Yes
brazil nuts	Yes			Yes	1,419	Yes
brewers yeast	Yes				Yes
buckwheat	Yes		Yes		Yes
butter	Yes
cacao nibs	Yes	Yes		Yes	62,100
cacao powder	Yes	Yes		Yes	55,653
camu camu powder	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
caraway seeds	Yes				Yes
cashew nuts	Yes		Yes		1,948
cats claw	Yes	Yes			Yes
chia seeds	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
chick peas	Yes				847
chocolate chips	Yes				Yes
chlorella	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
cilantro	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
cinnamon	Yes		Yes	Yes	131,420
coconut - shredded	Yes			Yes	Yes
coconut oil	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
coconut palm suger	Yes	Yes
couch grass	Yes				Yes	Yes	Yes
cranberries	Yes				Yes
currants	Yes	Yes			7,960
dates	Yes				2,387
eggs	Yes			Yes
FiberAid©	Yes
flaxseeds	Yes		Yes	Yes	19,600
fulvic minerals	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
cherries, glace	Yes				3,747
garlic	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
goji berries	Yes	Yes		Yes	25,600
gotu kola	Yes				Yes
hazelnuts	Yes				9,645
honey	Yes			Yes	Yes
kelp	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
lecithin	Yes				Yes
lúcuma powder	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
macadamia nuts	Yes				1,695
maca powder	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
marmalade	Yes
mesquite meal	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
modifilan	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
nopal powder	Yes	Yes			Yes
nutmeg	Yes				69,640
olive leaf	Yes				Yes
orange peel	Yes
oregano	Yes		Yes		175,295
paw paw	Yes				Yes
pecans	Yes				17,940
pepitas	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
peppermint	Yes		Yes		Yes
pine nuts	Yes				616
pistachio nuts	Yes				7,983
probiotics	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
raisins	Yes	Yes	Yes		3,406
reishi mushroom	Yes				Yes	Yes
rhodiola rosea	Yes				Yes
rosehip	Yes				96,150
rosemary	Yes		Yes		165,280
sesame seeds	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
siberian ginseng	Yes	Yes			Yes
spirulina	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
sultanas	Yes	Yes	Yes		10,450
sunflower seeds	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
tahini	Yes				Yes
tribulus	Yes				Yes
turmeric	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	127,068
vanilla essence	Yes				Yes
vitamin C	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vitamin D < /td>	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vitamin E	Yes				Yes
walnuts	Yes		Yes	Yes	13,541
whey protein concentrate	Yes				Yes
yacón syrup	Yes	Yes			Yes

If you have allergies, food intolerances or dietary preferances, click here for an handy reference guide as to which of my products contain what ingredients. To download a pdf of it, click here.

And like all my products, what I leave out is as important as what I put in:

No artificial colours		No artificial flavours		No artificial fragrances
No cane sugar		No excitotoxins		No flavour enhancers
No detectable gluten		No added preservatives		No trans-fats