they hit and healthy and moved in just a passing trend superfoods. that's it for me super food means what does you get because super foods are super for my body was. king with berries and chia seeds just 3 of the countless super foods in big demand due to their nutritional credentials is good only for the point is what a person needs. there's complete confusion on that issue and for it and now you see these products where we're told you need this if you eat this you'll get well or you won't get sick of it but it's not really true and so on. how does super food hype impact on local people in countries where the products are actually grown. does the continued increase in demand have the potential to even destroy entire

ecosystems. we're on the road to disaster here if something doesn't change and the region will turn into a desert. just soup of food craze started as is so often the case in the us and now seafood restaurants are at home in cities of around the world basically dishes with exotic ingredients such as avocado chia and kenya which come with the promise of making you slim healthy and happy. customers in this restraint and bottom geminid like it . is if i'm designed and looks healthy and you know you're doing something good for your body just. i like to be a lot but i like to eat healthy too. this is

a perfect mix of this lots of healthy stuff here and it's good to have a change from cafeterias other places intentional. children plan recognized the nation opened his business about a year ago. he came up with the recipes himself. his pain is to offer a healthy alternative to fetch the finest food. just this one fell off another one of the reasons why we're here is because it's much easier to eat stuff that's bad for you with an eating healthy way we want to change that and what the term super food you attract more customers than if you call yourself for healthy food and. the food here is served in special bowls warming green sea combined with cold months most of them rule the food is supposed to look tasty and have an exotic chop. a sure the nice thing about a bowl like this is that there are a lot of individual foods in it

a that makes it nice and colorful and being it's good for your body because each individual ingredient contains the minerals and vitamins from but it's not stuff spectrum that makes it a perfect meal it's not the 13 months it will be in these are our kidney bean balls . chickpeas. yum and in fine here we have kenya and ancient inca grain from south america climate science that comes out that america is it's a grain that is cooked with water and contains loads of healthy proteins in the nest oftentimes about food because in the part that you know because stupid foods really only cracked up to be the protein content of kenya for example is comparable to every j. millet's. king white house small farm about. 15 minutes has more than twice as much on lion.

florian klal buys a lot of his ingredients at the balkan wholesale market which boasts local products and foreign products like sweet potatoes to as always quality flash inside the freshness of the products is important to florian when he shopping. i need to herbs there goes. you've come to the right place. the mix is key to florence menu he combines local fruits and veggies with foods from faraway lands. and every fur and vegetable has its own nutritional composition that's why it's so nice to combine the local with the exotic because many diverse nutrients vitamins and minerals come together and they form a very complex meal. and that's great for the body. parts. but healthy doesn't necessarily mean sustainable this super food served up in germany

come from countries thousands of kilometers away. again why is a good example among the major produces is believe the actually that sells best in germany came right out of its harvested on salt flats. the indigenous peoples of the south american and his highlands were already farming cane was 6000 years ago when you treat rich grain has always been a staple food. you walk in yes this is sustainable farming consultant for years he's been watching hakeem what cult of asian has developed in the region. after using it or to figure out how to convert on these relatively sailing in poor soils with little rainfall we find a crop that can deliver fantastic eels. and doesn't fit in with the llamas it's in. ingenious or ideal form of production and is good for the region's economy

is here for these are your. tax changing shops used to provide food for the llamas and protect the soil from the roshan after the harvest the animals tend to graze lama down provided fresh nutrients since the king want them started farmers have been pushing for maximum yields while the scrap land has been cleaned. i was shocked by the fact that 152200000 hectares of llama grazing land has been ploughed up for king one. or 2 but i'm sure. there are now kenya fields as far as the eye can see rising to man has led to massive expansion in the plant's cultivation teaming the fields has left the soil without the vegetation that had protected it from wind or roshan. other women here long north. and

when you walk along here you only see annual wage growing now they're completely unprotected. alternately what we're doing is promoting the development of high land deserts. or farmers won't have the conditions they need to produce here so people have to go elsewhere. that change is already making itself felt with crop yields declining some farmers have already given up and gone to the cities to make a living as unskilled laborers and bolivia is just one place where superfood monoculture has left the men scarred. you know. this is the problem we see here with keen what is basically going on everywhere around the world at the moment. i'd. take the avocado for example as a super food it's grown as

a monoculture on large farmers. it's the able to keep. one's profits become the priority short term economic interests override everything else it's just in. order but hardly anyone really thinks about what will become of these ecosystems. people also live for us. there must. be massive demand for avocados has led to problems in countries that grow the fruit just as it has with king but here in bolivia within a decade the area of land used to grow avocados increased by 30 percent with 1500 liters of water an hour needed per kilo vegetables in germany such as lettuce and tomatoes require far less. enormous single crop farms especially in dry regions only ensure a short term high yields rising came on the traditional way is based on a different principle using less land that yielding better quality.

kalani found a small plot of land it takes a 2 weeks to harvest the fields by hand since tractors and now used to grow cane one more easily everywhere in the flatlands there are a few people left she want to tour on hill farms yet this is the cradle of cultivation. i mean marsters i was i am play out this is the way sisters work the fields back then. our grandparents stores how parents are now parents taught us. that we have to tell this stuff every year are these key numbers this is yes exactly the old roots and you leave these tweaks here. and. we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil you don't have the full. advantage

. it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries but. why now here in europe for even here there is room for improvement in terms of sustainability. but compared to the mechanized farming down in the logan plains this is more environmentally friendly. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests here on the hillsides the plants and large the individual kernels plant. yes at the end in march when the union for see this close here it's yielding really well. look at the seed heads the kernels are nice and ripe but our standards these are the best grains we store them and use them as seeds are the same in. your community has brought along some keen march from a german supermarket. he wants to show the farmers how the grain they

grow here is sold in consumed in europe. commerce all the posters q how do you feel about germany and europe suddenly discovering keane was a superfood it was really meant to suppress a prayer because i wasn't there mr product again not is that both product didn't used to be well known. in the word hadn't got around yet about how much protein it hands. if used to cost less than rice and pastor. like you know not this they said king well wasn't worth that much more strength in our. product dollars as farm is we're a little proud that kin was now known all over the world either i knew there more in the end. it had to be from the farmers compared to chemo or from the german supermarket with what they've just harvested from their own field. this is the

premier of the box as class one but even our class 2 is bigger than there's a victim of there's a form of. yeah i'd say it's class 3 of the year in june and these little ones here they're nothing that's a chicken feed as there is in this the. poppea is done with this field for today further up the hillside she has another plot of rotten king one that needs harvesting. when the superfood doing started in $24.00 change the price fixing what went through the roof back then even small villages like c.n.n. found it profited from this trend. in time to just sit in families. that were able to buy new equipment such as the small grain

sorting machine. that made work easier in 2015 just a year later the market price collapsed again. how much would you have to earn from keene was grown on the hillside for it to pay off. they'd have to pay us a lot more for our production costs to be covered. we need to feed our families. the development of the crossfire. looks like a roller coaster ride in 2014 it peaked in just over $3000.00 a time but only 3 years later it plummeted to a low of that even before the game began. the critic you see. the expansion of kenya farming on the plains can also lead to major fluctuations in

its price. and the hill farmer suffer because they can't compete and don't get paid more despite the additional effort involved in working on the hillsides. the farming is sustainable with high quality yields but this way of working the land is at risk of dying out european consumers are relatively unaware of the pharmacy problems while the super food selections in the supermarkets keeps on growing between 20142016 the turnover generated by super foods in germany rose from 1400000 to 42600000 euros the best seller is chia which accounts for 62 percent to sales of what's best to buy from such a large selection. can zoom into as a must consumers are completely confused so they're vulnerable to advertising based

on faith often it's like religion. if i show up promising a miracle and people in need of orientation are ready to believe it that's the concept behind super foods from super fast. doctor and new traditions specialist mathias redrilled inspects the super foods on the shelves of the hamburg supermarket ginger tried berries chia customers find a wide variety of supposedly healthy products. the list of ingredients shows what's really inside. and. you can think this is the natural food section. 0 but here we have cranberries. you don't see it right away but they have an extra 40 percent sugar ports and sockets and sunflower oil which isn't the best oil. so this bag of cranberries has more sugar in it than a bar of chocolate almost 70 percent off as well so there are anything but healthy

as good. seeds do contain in the very best nutrients but they usually consumed in very small quantities is a lincoln from super foods are just a diversion from the real problem. the german diet isn't healthy enough and adding 15 grams of chia seeds daily won't change it but that's exactly what happens chia seeds are something of an alibi food to make up for an otherwise unhealthy diet. 15 grams provide even less omega 3 fatty acids than for example a generous portion of what. binds. flax seeds could be another alternative to chio it has more protein and about the same proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids although when it comes to count flax seed can't compete . big industry is eager

to join the super food tray and even long term staples such as what you just said cereals and now being supplemented with exotic grains and berries that isn't. here are 2 examples of what's going wrong. they've got far too much sugar and just a smidgen of cranberry to let the consumer know look it's got fruit and forked ish the percentage of cranberries is well below 5 percent or so negligible. the key here is the high level of sugar it's unhealthy and neutralizes anything beneficial the dried cranberries contribute cranberry for. being gone berries are an alternative to transgress the growing year for example the sugar content in cranberries is low bought juta they're relatively sour taste. to the dr version.

him superfood isn't a registered trademark but it does suggest a positive effect on consumer health that's not always the case. here's a nice example 100. cent natural doesn't mean 100 percent healthy this small portion for 2 euro's gives you 47 grams of sugar or 100 grams of product look at the thighs that is so eating this little bad form means nearly 25 grams of sugar is that's the world health organizations maximum daily intake recommendation organised so that's pretty much it for the day if you look at some cons of. trish an expert advises people in germany to eat local fruits and vegetables even if their lives trying. to have them are produce has an image problem and we need to inform people about how good these food colors are for us and the benefits of our local products from the

high mission product now the oids have a natural antiinflammatory a fact whether it's chives garlic or leak. there are local alternatives in germany for many overseas foods and they don't have to be shipped thousands of kilometers to get to supermarket shelves and there is sound choice on the nutrients front. the goji berry has 7 times more calories than the humble black cart. primarily because of the fullness high sugar content. and when it comes to vitamin c. the black currant outstrips the goji. some so-called super foods come from countries with farming regulations are not as strict as in germany sample measurements have shown some may contain pesticides and heavy metals this lab in braman specializes in detecting hazardous substances in food and other products and has tested the lungs of goji berries.

during pesticide screening we check for the presence of about 200 different pesticides these include insecticides fungicides and her best. sides we also screen for for heavy metals. cadmium arsenic and mercury in them critically laughton we primarily found insecticides and higher concentrations of them and now flies. and not just in goats you berries samples from other institutes of indicated the presence of pesticides and mineral oil in rule cocoa chia seeds and the ring of powder. the pesticide issue isn't a problem with keen one many producers have organic certification but that doesn't make the farming sustainable tractors churn up the dry soil and with demand growing

the land being farmed now stretches from the hills to the flat lands with no end in sight. iraq emails is concerned that if things go on like this there won't be any more growing he want any of the farmers are already telling him that the yields a shrinking from year to year. conclusions that can be drawn from this aren't being made people need to ask above all what can we actually do differently instead of saying ok stop plowing all that up the message should be how can we produce without destroying the whole region here. you want to know this is headed for the community of routine but they also quickie mart in the flatlands you see maybe. they came up to revive this village and many locals return from the big cities because they could make a living here again houses will rebuild and

a modest level of affluence developed in the form of facets like tractors and other machines. and the villages went back to fostering local customs such as traditional tricks music and rituals. and the big demand for keen one has had a really positive effect on our community. with the online that our standard of living and our quality of life have improved enormously. in the way they grow keen what needs to change fundamentally if they are to maintain that is found according to organic standards that natural vegetation is still being largely cleared that we consume quality. but where you. have a look at this total of plant and the way its root system is formed. the roots are

still firmly anchored in the soil i go several metres down into the ground to even board an extreme pocono they don't this is one of the most important species to maintain fertility in this extremely dry region. it stops winter roshon. and helps keep water in the soil. if the decline in soil quality continues soon it will no longer be with the pharmacy if it. is the pharmacy about ways to ensure decent harvests in the long term. the soil is beautifully fertile here because of these here. we must produce the keen while with this it's like fertilizer. this is the same time it's wood for llamas right. that's the best thing for the keen walk we just have to take all these would be

bits and sprinkle them on the field when we sow we should try that. need to produce everything biomass fertilizer on the piece of land itself then it's sustainable and at the same time we also have to reforest. other people are quite skeptical but that's always the case or something new back people are listening. to this that's a place like this makes me optimistic that something can be done with some of the most modern cars. in the small town of salinas preparations are underway for a market fish with a regional key must promise will be able to present it when it's all the towns in the surrounding area are represented in the showcase of the food that is so vital for the region. he notes wants to speak to the exhibit says many school that crops to europe and most produce according to ok thank standards. they have good on this

is hoping that german consumers will soon not chinese want chemo that is found organically and sustainably as well. as the other is his own growth in itself and those that are going to be good if this demand can be used to change farming practices. we have to make it clear that the organic requirements are not merely enough to produce a keen watch sustainably you know it's a product of. sustainability has to become a king while farming stand it if the ecosystems in believe use highlands to remain intact and offer the human and animal inhabitants a viable long term future. the

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