Unlock Timeless Beauty and Elevate Your Wellness Journey with Nutrient-Rich Recipes

 

Gone are the days when achieving radiant beauty was reserved for Hollywood elites like Margot Robbie, famously known for her role as Barbie. Beauty transcends mere appearances; it’s an embodiment of vitality, health, and confidence that radiates from within.

Enter the realm of wellness through the lens of nutrition. It’s a journey where every meal is an opportunity to nourish not just the body, but the very essence of your being.  Ginger Hultin, FoodTrients’ nutritionist and dietitian, illuminates the profound impact of a wholesome diet on our long-term beauty.  She suggests embarking on a culinary adventure that promises to enhance your inner glow and outward allure. By eating a healthy diet can play a role in long-term beauty in the following ways:

• Skin elasticity, vibrancy, and color
• Hair and skin quality, fostering growth and resilience
• Energizing the body for an active lifestyle and maintaining optimal muscle mass
• Fueling vitality and zest for life, ensuring each day is brimming with potential

Which Foods Are Best for Aging Beautifully?

Grace O, founder of FoodTrients, has identified the following ‘superfoods’ as the path to staying beautiful and vibrant as you age. Choose these food categories to get access to the complex carbohydrates, protein, and healthy fat as well as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can support your beauty.

•    Vitamin A foods: carrots, tomatoes, red peppers, melon, fish, eggs
  ● Vitamin C foods: sweet potatoes, red peppers, citrus fruits, strawberries, tomatoes
  ● Vitamin E foods: almonds, peanut butter, pumpkin, wheat germ oil, sunflower seeds
  ● Biotin foods: nuts, egg yolks, oats
  ● Selenium foods: Brazil nuts, seafood, broccoli, soybeans

With each bite, you rewrite the narrative of aging, embracing a future where beauty and wellness dance in harmonious tandem. It’s time to savor the flavors of nourishment, paving the way for a more vibrant, age-defying you. These ‘superfoods’ are the ingredients for aging well, as well as creating delicious, irresistible dishes.

Grace O has provided two easy and delicious recipes for health and beauty.  To see the full article and more recipes, click here:

Radish Salad

SERVES 2-4

Radishes belong to the same family of vegetables as kale and cabbage and offer some of the same disease-preventing benefits. The eggs in this bright, tangy salad provide protein and the carrots vitamin A and the tomatoes vitamins A and C. The recipe is from my first cookbook, The Age Gracefully Cookbook.

Ingredients

2 daikon radishes or 1 bunch red radishes, stems removed
1 cup seasoned rice vinegar
2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. white pepper
2 chopped hard-boiled eggs
6-8 sliced grape tomatoes

2 medium carrots, scrubbed and sliced into coins

Procedure

1.  Slice the radishes very thinly using a food processor or mandolin slicer.
   2. To make the dressing, mix together the rice vinegar, olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper. Let stand and allow the flavors to blend for up to 1 hour.
   3. Toss the radishes with dressing.
   4. To assemble, arrange the sliced radishes on salad plates. Top with the chopped eggs, carrots and tomato slices, evenly divided.

Recipe and photo may be reprinted with the following credit:  Recipe and photo reprinted with permission from The Age Gracefully Cookbook by Grace O, photo by Matthew Fried, FoodTrients.com.

Stir-Fried Korean Glass Noodles

SERVES 4

Korean glass noodles are made from sweet potato starch. Gluten-free and low-calorie, they have a springy texture and a neutral flavor. In Korean BBQ restaurants, this dish is known as Jap Chae or sometimes Chap Chae. In this recipe, which is from my Age Beautifully Cookbook, I jazz them up with marinated meat, stir-fry vegetables, eggs, and a sesame sauce. Traditionally, these noodles are served with a scrambled egg on top. You can use chicken or tofu instead of beef.

What are the age-fighting benefits? Sweet potatoes are full of carotenoids, antioxidants that produce vitamin A in your body. Vitamin A supports the immune system and keeps eyes healthy. Shiitake mushrooms contain selenium, an antioxidant mineral that also strengthens immune response. Mushrooms and beef both contain protein for building muscles.

Ingredients

1 cup Korean sweet potato glass noodles

Noodle Seasonings
1 tsp. toasted sesame seeds
¼ cup low-sodium soy or tamari sauce
¼ cup water

2 Tbs. raw or turbinado sugar
1 Tbs. sesame oil

Salt or salt substitute and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Meat
1 cup thinly sliced beef tenderloin
1 Tbs. raw or turbinado sugar
2 Tbs. low-sodium soy sauce or tamari sauce
¼ tsp. black pepper
1 Tbs. sesame oil

Vegetables
¼ cup julienned white onion
2 Tbs. sesame oil
2 tsp. chopped garlic
1 tsp. peeled and chopped ginger
½ cup julienned shiitake mushrooms
½ cup julienned carrots
½ cup firmly packed whole baby spinach leaves, without stems
¼ cup julienned green onion
Salt or salt substitute and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Egg topping
1 tsp. olive oil
1 egg (organic, free-range, or Omega-3-enriched), beaten
Salt or salt substitute and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Make the noodles: Cook according to package directions and drain; place in a serving bowl, and sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds. Boil the noodle seasoning ingredients in a saucepan for 5 minutes. Pour over the noodles, toss, and set aside.

2. Make the meat: Combine the meat and its seasoning ingredients in a bowl and let sit for 10–15 minutes. Stir-fry in a wok or skillet over medium heat for 5–7 minutes or until well done. Set aside.
3. Make the vegetables: Stir-fry the white onions, garlic, and ginger in the oil over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the shiitake mushrooms and cook another 1–2 minutes. Add the carrots and cook another 1–2 minutes or until the mushrooms are cooked through and the carrots are crisp-tender. Remove from the heat. Stir in the spinach leaves and green onions and allow them to wilt. Set aside in a bowl.
4. Make the topping: In a nonstick skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the beaten egg and season with salt and pepper. Cook through, omelet-style, for 2–3 minutes without folding or turning. Turn onto a cutting board and slice into strips. Set aside in a bowl.
5. To serve, combine all of the ingredients in a large serving dish or serve each component separately and let your guests create their own bowls of goodness.

Recipe and photo may be reprinted with the following credit:  Recipe and photo reprinted with permission from The Age Beautifully Cookbook by Grace O, photo by Matthew Fried / www.FoodTrients.com.

About FoodTrients

FoodTrients® is a philosophy and a resource dedicated to the foods and rejuvenating nutrients that help us fight the diseases of aging and promote longevity. All of the recipes combine modern scientific research and medicinal herbs and ingredients from cultures around the world. They’re loaded with flavor and superfoods, which promote wellness, increase energy and vitality, improve skin, and help people look and feel younger.

About Grace O

Over a span of 30 years, Grace O has built an impressive record of business achievement, community building, philanthropy, and community service in California. Guided by her spirit of entrepreneurship and building on a model of generosity learned from her family, Grace has spent a lifetime helping people heal through food and medicine. Grace launched FoodTrients.com in 2010 where she shares age-defying superfoods from around the world and creates delicious recipes with them. Grace is the author of three award-winning cookbooks—The Age GRACEfully Cookbook: The Power of FOODTRIENTS to Promote Health and Well-being for a Joyful and Sustainable Life; The Age Beautifully Cookbook: Easy and Exotic Longevity Secrets from Around the World, and the multi-award-winning Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World.

For more information and recipes visit www.FoodTrients.com.