they hit and healthy and more than just a passing train superfoods. best from a super food means what does you good 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 to have there is complete confusion on that issue and varies 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 for them so much. how does super food hype impact on local people in countries where the products are actually grown. sons the continued increase in demand have the potential to even destroy entire ecosystems. vents if they were on the road to disaster here if something doesn't change and the region will turn into a desert. this

soup of food craze started as is so often the case in the us and now seafood restaurants are at home in cities around the world face it dishes with exotic ingredients such as avocado chia and kenya which come with the promise of making new slim healthy and happy. customers in this restaurant in bochum germany like it . is if i'm designed ours and 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 mechanician with this lots of healthy stuff here and it's good to have a change from cafeterias other places in town and. curium klara. ignites denise

and opened his business about a year ago. he came up with the recipes himself. his aim is to offer a healthy alternative to fetching fast food. that's just another one of the reasons why we're here is because it's much easier to eat stuff that's bad for you than eat healthy way and we want to change that and with the terms super food you attract more customers than if you call yourself for healthy food. is served in special bowls will mean green beans to combined with cold months most of them rule the food is supposed to look tasty taf and exotic such. a sure but 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 minerals and vitamins from but it's nasty spectrum

and that makes it a perfect meal not perfect months and some of these are kidney bean balls. chickpeas. yum and in fine here we have in ancient inca grain from south america climates i think conducted on the other is it's a grain that is cooked with water and contains loads of healthy proteins in their stuff and. because in the part that you know because stupid food's really all they cracked up to be the protein content of kenya for example is comparable to every j. millet's. kenya has more fun about. 15 minutes has more than twice as much ion. florian club as a lot of his ingredients at the balkan wholesale market which boasts local products and farm products like sweet potatoes to as always. the flash inside the freshness

of the products is important to florian when he shopping. i need some herbs like there goes. your come to the right place. the mix is key to florence menu he combines local fruits and veggies with foods from far away lands. do this open to this can 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. and that's great for the body but in couples who cuts. but healthy doesn't necessarily mean sustainable the super food served up in germany come from countries thousands of kilometers away. king why is a good example among the major produces is bolivia the actually 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 came last 6000 years ago a new tree and which grain has always been a staple food here. you are you know this is sustainable farming consultant for years he's been watching how kamal cultivation has developed in the region. after using it or to convert on these relatively sailing in poor soils with little rainfall we find a crop that can deliver fantastic eels. doesn't fit in with the llamas it's an ingenious or ideal form of production and it's good for the region's economy. for these are they doing. that that's changing. shops used to

provide food for the llamas and protect the soil from erosion after the harvest the animals came to graze llama dung provided fresh nutrients since the king want them started farmers have been pushing for maximum yields while the scrap land has been cleaned up. i was shocked by the fact that 152200000 hectares of llama grazing land has been ploughed up for keen one. there are no chemo fields as far as the eye can see rising to man and has led to massive expansion in the plants cultivation tearing the fields has left the soil without the vegetation that had protected it from wind to russian. loft. 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 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 gone to the cities to make a living as unskilled laborers and bolivia is just one place where superfood monoculture has left the man scott. chris paul blair. gene was in this in the problem we see here with keen what is basically going on everywhere around the world to do its own in the moment. take the avocado for example as a super food it's grown as a monoculture on large farmers and. once 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. with 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 of water an hour needed per kilo vegetables in germany such lettuce and tomatoes require far less. enormous single crop farms especially in dry regions only ensures short term high yields raising cain one of the traditional why is based on a different principle using less land but yielding better quality. kalani found a small plot of land it takes a 2 weeks to harvest the fields by hand since tractors in there used to grow clean

well more easily everywhere in the flatlands there are a few people left she want to tour away on hill farms yet this is the final of cultivation. amid mercer's i would play out this is the way his work the fields back then. our grandparents george her parents and our parents taught us. that we have to plough this up every year are these key members. yes exactly the old roots and you leave these twigs here. and yes we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil health care the. and the survive it as in. it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries. it's your truth when i

hear your for even here there is room for improvement in terms of sustainability for life but compared to a mechanized farming town in the lower than plain stream that this is more environmentally friendly recall august underpasses. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants and large the individual kernels plump. years at the end in march and the union for see this clones 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. your camille says bush along some keen wa from a german supermarket. he wants to show the farmers how the grain make grow here is sold in consumed in europe. economies

over posters because how do you feel about germany and europe suddenly discovering keane was a superfood it was not limited to suppress it. wasn't their natural product again not is that ok product didn't used to be well known as a word hadn't got around yes about how much protein it has. if used to cost less than rice and pastor. like you know or not this year they said king well wasn't worth that much rush back in our. product ernest was farm is we're a little proud that king was now known all over the world the the new there are more in the end. i have to defend the farmers compare the king law from the german supermarket with what they've just harvested from their own field this is the premier the box says class one but even our class 2 is bigger than their subject of there's a form of. yeah and i'd say it's class 3 of them. in

june and these little ones here they're nothing that's a chicken feed the stories in this new. pope is done with this field for today further up the hillside she has another plot of rodney king one that needs harvesting. when the super food boom started in 24 st the price fixing all went through the roof back then even small villages like c.n.n. pounded 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 what grows on the hillside for it to pay off. they'd have to pay us a lot more for our production costs to be covered. for us we need to feed our families. let alone things in the country. and. the development of the price fixing what of bolivia looks like a roller coaster ride in 2014 in peak to just over $3000.00 a ton but only 3 years later it plummeted to a lower value than before that didn't again. you could think. the expansion of kenya farming on the plains could 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. of mentors as a consumers are completely confused so they're vulnerable to advertising based on faith and sports 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 foods. dr and you trish and specialist mathias riedel inspects the super foods on. at the hamburg supermarket ginger tried berries customers find a wide variety of supposedly healthy products. the list of ingredients shows what's really inside. 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 they're anything but healthy. because. she is seeds containing the very best nutrients but they usually consumed

in very small quantities the super foods 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 walnuts. finest. 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 this super food trend even long term staples such as ready to serve cereals

and now being supplemented with exotic grains and berries. here are 2 examples of what's going wrong. if 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. lingonberries arnold to try and raise the grow in europe for example the sugar content in cranberries is low bad juju in a relatively sour taste. to the dr version. suited food 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 percent nat. doesn't mean 100 percent healthy this small portion for 2 euro's gives you 47 grams of sugar per 100 grams of product for the thighs that isn't so eating this little bagful 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 fruit and vegetables even if their lives trying. to help 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 public now the alley 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 humble 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. during pesticide screening we check 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 in them critically laughton we primarily found insecticides in higher concentrations. office. and not just in go cheap berries samples from other institutes of indicated the presence of pesticides and mineral oil in rule cocoa she is see and will ring a powder. the pesticide issue isn't a problem with keen while 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 he one day the farmers are already telling him that the yields a shrinking from year to year. the conclusions that can be drawn from this are being made that people need to ask above all what can we actually do differently instead of saying ok stop blowing all that up the message should be how can we produce without destroying the whole region here. you work in mills is headed for the community of fruit am they also quaking why in the flatlands using make. the cane want to revive this village 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 acids like tractors and other machines. and the villages went back to fostering local customs such as traditional

trips music and rituals. and the other 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 mostly. in the way they grow king what needs to change fundamentally if they are to maintain that the crop 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 toll 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 wouldn't i think that it's very important to take your own 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 worth the pharmacy if it. so the pharmacist out 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. and that's the best thing for the cane walk we just have to take all these woody 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. these people are quite skeptical but that's always the case or something new. but people are listening. to this that's a place like this makes me optimistic that something can be done this month the most modern country. in the small town of salinas preparations are underway for a market fish with a regional kingma pharmacy will be able to present it when it's all the towns in the surrounding area of represented in the showcase of the food that is so vital to the region. and notes wants to speak to the exhibit says many export their crops to europe and most produce according to ok thanks standards. they have good on this is hoping that jim and consumers will soon a shiny one came out that is found organically but sustainably as well.

as they are has 0 to. 0 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 nearly enough to produce keen was sustainably you know it's important to have. sustainability has to become a key more farming stand it if the ecosystems in bolivia silents to remain intact and offer the human and animal inhabitants a viable long term future. it

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