Depending on the source, peas, lentils, beans were historically referred to as “poor man’s meat, the people intuiting the protein content even before the concept of macros were known to science.
Everytime something is called a superfood, it’s inevitably some fruit, a berry, usually acai, blueberry, etc.
What a joke!
While you can get nutrients from plants alone, it requires a diverse diet of ingredients, just try to survive as a one ingredient vegan.
Try.
I’d put the best odds on one pulling this off with garbanzo beans, or coconut.
The two would be a sustainable vegan diet, sound nutritionally.
However in the meat eaters world to live off one ingredient? This is the easiest thing ever.
No one ever starved eating delicious fatty meat.
If the information put out on foods was honest, there would be headlines such as “Steak – The #1 Food For Your Health”, and “How To Best Cook Your Ground Beef For Robust Vitality And Vigor”.
There’s plenty of historical precedence showing people thriving on eating fatty dead animal, even to exclusively.
Try to find that with plants.
Try to find someone surviving on berries. Even the bear, king of berry consumption…he eats his salmon aplenty.
Red meat, fatty meat, saturated fat, dairy, organ meat – these are the true superfoods.