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^^I eat plain yogurt with fruit (fresh off the tree!) most mornings in non smoothie form DELISH
protein shakes man I can down like 75g of protein with a few of those if the munchies hit hard. Throw a little chicken breast afterwards and you have a great munchy snack!
dried mangos be damned -- gimmie the fresh ones! If I end up living somewhere tropical, I'm growing a mango tree on my property.
delta_9, I was introduced to goji when I was living in Taiwan, where they put them in Eight Treasure Tea, and stew whole chickens in them. Never thought they'd be a health craze a few years later in the USI always found them foul -- they have a bitter undertone that sends shiver through me. As does acai berry.
Never had acai berries but I hear they're packed full of nutrients as well.
The deep purplish-crimson-coloured banana flower is used as a vegetable from Sri Lanka to Laos. The flower is borne at the end of the stem. Long, slender, sterile male flowers with a faint sweet fragrance are lined up in tidy rows and protected by large reddish bracts. Higher up the stem are groups of female flowers which develop into fruit without fertilisation.
In Thailand, slices of tender banana flower are eaten raw with the pungent dip known as nam prik, or with fried noodles, or simmered in a hot sour soup with chicken, galangal and coconut milk.
In the Philippines, banana blossom is added to the famous kari-kari, a rich beef stew. 'Banana blossom' or 'banana heart' are the favoured names in the Philippines and 'banana heart' in Indonesia purely because its colour and shape suggest a heart; (nothing to do with the 'heart' of the trunk used in Burma). In Sri Lanka, it is simply 'plantain flower'. In Australia it is known as 'banana bell'.