experience knowledge to. be. told you. can check out of us are you a dinosaur. in support of. what's able. to be a book. and healthy and more than just a passing trained superfoods. that's it for me super food means what does you get because super foods are super for my body. berries and cheese seeds just 3 of the countless super foods in big demand due to their nutritional

credentials this can only point is what a person needs to have there's complete confusion on that issue 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 it's them so much. how does super food hype impact on local people in countries where the products are actually growing. chance the continued increase in demand have the potential to even destroy entire ecosystems. venti 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 college time in cities around the world face it dishes with exotic ingredients such as a cottage cheese and keen one which come with the promise of making new slim healthy and happy. customers in this restraint and bottom germany like it. looks healthy and you know you're doing something good for your body just. i like to eat a lot but i like to eat healthy too this is a perfect mix when it's busy lots of healthy stuff here and it's good to have a change from cafeterias other places intentionally. killed in clown recognized nation opened his business about a year ago. he came up with the recipes himself. his pain is to offer a healthy alternative to fashion a fast food. this is 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 the shrew for healthy food. the food here is served in special bowls warming green sea combined with cold fronts most of them rule the food is supposed to look tasty and have an exotic such. as 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 perfect. will be nice or are kidney bean balls. chickpeas. yum and in fine here we have keen and ancient inca grain from south america climate science there conducted on the other it's as agree . that is cooked with water and contains loads of healthy proteins in their stuff

and how does a bad thing because in the part that you know that a lawsuit if it's really all it cracked up to be the protein content of kenya for example is comparable to every j. millet's. kenya has more fun about. it millet has more than twice as much ion. florian club as a lot of you seen gradients at the balkan wholesale market which boasts local products and farm products like sweet potatoes to as always quality flash inside the freshness of the products is important to florian when he shopping. it's always i need to herbs because. you have come to the right place. the mix is key to florence menu he combines local fruits and veggies with foods from faraway lands. do this or something that's going every for investable

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 so and that's great for the body but in couples who puts. thought healthy doesn't necessarily mean sustainable to super food served up in germany come from countries thousands of kilometers away. again why is a good example among the major produces is bolivia the variety that sells best in germany came out 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 are you know

this is sustainable farming consultant for years he's been watching how chemo cultivation has developed in the region. after using military force and he's relatively sailing in poor soils with little rainfall we find a crop that can deliver fantastic eels. on doesn't fit in with the llamas it's an ingenious or ideal form of production and is good for the region's economy is here for these if your. but that's changing shops used to provide food for the llamas and protect the soil from the ocean after the harvest the animals came to graze lama down provided fresh new chance since the king want them started farmers have been pushing for maximum yields while the scrap land has been clean. just. don't just proved i was shocked by the fact that 152200000 hectares of llama

grazing land has been ploughed up for keene one at the south bridge but i'm sure. there are no chemo fields as far as the eye can see rising to man has led to massive expansion in the plants cultivation teaming the fields has left the soil without the vegetation that it protected from wind of roshan. i remember your landlord. does and when you walk along here you only see annual wage growing now there was oil that's completely unprotected. ultimately what we're doing is promoting the development of high land deserts. or the 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. the city's to make

a living as unskilled laborers and bolivia is just one place where superfood monoculture has left the land scarred. was this. you know. this is the problem we see here with keen what is basically going on everywhere around the world at the moment. take the avocado for example as a super food it's grown as a monoculture on large farmers but it's the. profits become the priority short term economic interests override everything else. but hardly anyone really thinks about what will become of these ecosystems. people also live. there must. be a massive demand for avocados has led to problems in countries that grow the fruit just as it has with king what he did in bolivia within

a decade the area of land used to grow avocados increased by 30 percent with 1500 liters supported now needed per kilo of vegetables in germany such as lettuce and tomatoes require far less. enormous single crop farms especially in dr regions only ensure a short term high yields raising cain while the traditional way is based on a different principle using less land but yielding better quality. be a colony found a small plot of land it takes a 2 weeks to harvest the field by hand since tractors in there used to grow more easily everywhere in the flatlands there are a few people left you want to tour away on hill farms yet this is the cradle of civilization. i mean mercer's ever knows i am glad this is. as sisters work the fields back then. our

grandparents towards our parents and our parents taught us. that we have to plow this stuff every year are these key members. 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. will catch the ball. and the survive it. it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries but. why now here for even here there is room for improvement in terms of sustainability. but compared to a mechanized farming town in the lower than plains this is more environmentally friendly as. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants the large the individual cones plump.

yes at the end in march when the union 3rd see this clones here it's yielding really well you know 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 salads 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 not a man to suppress it for the because i wasn't there mr product look in what is that our product didn't used to be well known. in the world hadn't got around yet about how much protein it has yeah. it used to cost less than rice and pastor.

like it or not this year they said king well it wasn't worth that much my stock in our. product line is because farming is we're a little proud that kim was now known all over the world these are new they're more indian. heatedly for the farmers compared to king lapham the german supermarket with what they've just harvested from their own field. is the premier the box says class one but even our class 2 is bigger than their civic of those afford them. i'd say it's class 3. in june and then these little ones here they're nothing that's a chicken feet are still is in the. is done with this field for today further up the hillside she has another plot of run king one that needs harvesting.

when the superfood bloom started in 24 change the price fixing what went through the roof back then even small villages like sierra grounded profited from this trend. it's time to just 7 families. that were able to buy new equipment such as a 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. russell made after pay us a lot more for our production costs to be covered. we need to feed our families because you know the new parliament is in the national council. and. the

development of the price fixing what looks like a roller coaster ride in 2014 p. to just over $3000.00 a tonne but only 3 years later it plummeted to a lower value than before the boom began. the critic you see. the expansion of kenya farming on the plains also lead to major fluctuations in its price. and the whole 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

a 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 of sales but 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. 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 regional 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. but here we have cranberries. you don't see it right away but they have an extra 40 percent sugar. 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 anything but healthy as. she is seeds do contain the very best nutrients but they usually consumed in very small quantities is a. 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 walnuts. 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 sort of cereals are 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 negligible. the key here

is the high level of sugar it's unhealthy and neutralizes anything beneficial the dried cranberries contribute cranberry for. eating going berries are an alternative to tramper is the growing year for example the sugar content in cranberries is low bad juju and a relatively sour taste. to the dry version. superfood isn't a registered trademark but it does suggest a positive effect on consuming health that's not always the case. here's a nice example 100 percent 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 that isn't so eating this little bagful means nearly 25 grams of sugar. that's the world

health organizations maximum daily intake recommendation so that's pretty much it for the day if you look at some of. the tradition expert advises people in germany to eat local fruits and vegetables even if their lives trying to. 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 public now of the valley always 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. barry has 7 times more calories than the black cart. primarily because of the fullness high sugar content

. and when it comes to vitamin c. the black current easily outstrips the go gene. some so-called super foods come from countries where farming regulations are not as strict as in germany sample measurements have shown that some may contain pesticides and heavy metals this lab in braman specializes in detecting hazardous substances in food not the products and has tested lots of goji berries. and in person since during pesticide screening we checked for the presence of about $200.00 different pesticides these include insecticides fungus sides and herbicides we also screen for for heavy metals cadmium arsenic and mercury incorrectly laughton we primarily found insecticides in higher concentrations of the men office . and not just in goat she buries samples from other

institutes of indicated the presence of pesticides and mineral oil in rural cocoa she is see i'm a ringer padda. the pesticide issue isn't a problem with. 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. is concerned that if things go on like this there won't be any more growing here one day the farmers are already telling him that the yields a shrinking from year to year. consequently the schools for the conclusions that could 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 ploughing all that up the message should be how can we produce without destroying the whole region here when . you work in mills is headed for the community of fruit a on with a also a quickie while in the flatlands using making last farming. they came up revived this village many locals returned 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 passive tractors and other machines. and the villages went back to fostering local customs such as traditional trance music and rituals. and the big demand for keen one has had a really positive effect on our community. with our standard of living and our quality of life have improved enormously. in the way

they grow king what needs to change fundamentally if they are to maintain that the crop is farmed according to organic standards that natural vegetation is still being largely cleared that we can soil quality. but where you. got to have a look at this total of plant and the way its root system is formed. their roots are still firmly anchored in the soil i go several metres down into the ground to. explain poking into your this is one of the most important species to maintain fertility in this extremely dry region. it stops when the roshan. and helps keep water in the soil. it's. decline in soil quality continues soon it will no longer be worth the fatness if it. talks to 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 food for llamas right now this is a living. and that's the best thing for the cane walk we just have to take all these would be bits and sprinkle them on the field when we sow we should try that. as we need to produce everything biomass fertilizer on the piece of land itself then it's sustainable at the same time we also have to reforest. people are quite skeptical but that's always the case or something new back people are listening. to this bus a place like this makes me optimistic that something can be done with some of the

most modern code. in the small town of salinas preparations are underway for a market fish with a regional king or pharmacy 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. you often notice wants to speak to the exhibitors many export their crops to europe and most produce according to organic standards. they have good on the surface hoping that german consumers will soon not see any one chemo that is found organically but sustainably as well. as the out with. rest only so for those that are going to be good if this demand could be used to change farming practices. we have to make it clear that the organic requirements are not nearly enough to produce a keen watch sustainably what the potency of. sustainability has to become a key more farming standard if the ecosystems in bolivia's highlands to remain

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