How to eat your way to beautiful hair

Eat Sun Chokes

Beauty connection: Beautiful hair! (Iron)

Origin:

The edible roots of American sunflowers, sunchokes are much like potatoes in texture and taste, but offer more by way of iron, which carries oxygen throughout the body aiding in hair growth.

Health benefit/consumption:

A cup of sliced sunchokes provides a quarter of your daily iron. That’s about the same amount found in 3 ounces of beef eye-of-round but with no fat and only 114 calories per cup! That’s twice the iron you’ll muscle out of a medium baked potato.

• Cooked sunchokes replace potatoes in purees and creamed soups. I love them in stir-fries since it reminds me of a crunchy water chestnut! Craving scalloped potatoes? Use sunchokes instead. Can be found in gourmet grocery stores year round.

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