We hear ‘superfood’, and we think of kale, acai berries and quinoa. Generally, we picture food that’s sprouted fresh from the ground and that makes for a colourful dining plate.
But it turns out there’s a newly listed superfood on the block, and it’s rather the black sheep of the family.
Well, actually, it’s more the black pig, because that’s right, fry-up favourite black pudding has been hailed a superfood for 2016. Sorry veggies.
And that’s all down to the high content of iron, potassium, calcium and magnesium that it provides.
If you’re not familiar with the stuff that’s usually served alongside your eggs, beans and bacon, black pudding is a blood sausage of sorts, usually made up of port fat, pork blood and oats, but is sometimes made with beef suet.
And the very British recipes is set to be an ‘it-food’ for the year ahead, with everyone for the Evening Standard to the the Guardian sayings it's one to watch for this year.
How do you feel about this news? Bloody marvellous or bleeding terrible?