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Food and Nutrition
Add Some Billiken Blue Foods to Your Diet
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Mar 20, 2013 - 2:14:59 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ST. LOUIS -- Last week, we were fixated on the color green as we toasted St. Patrick's Day. This week, our colorful obsession turns blue. Billiken blue.

While it was easy to add green foods to our diet - spinach, broccoli, avocado, lettuce and edamame, to name just a few, blue foods are - well, a little more challenging.

But as the Billikens prepare for March Madness, we turn to a Saint Louis University dietitian and basketball fan for inspiration and guidance on blue foods - but not the sort that grow fur and hide on the back shelf of a refrigerator, trying to outlive their expiration dates.

"A lot of the blue foods are superfoods, which are loaded with nutrients and have extra disease fighting benefits," said Amy Moore, instructor of nutrition and dietetics at SLU. "Like our Billikens, blue foods - and their purple brothers -- are unique and pack a powerful punch."

Both blue and purple foods get their color from a compound called anthocyanins, which have powerful antioxidant properties.

Among Moore's favorite picks:


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