Kale is simply one on the healthiest food choices you can put on your table.

It’s a  member of the cabbage family, power packed with vitamins A, K, C, with serious amounts of B vitamins as well as trace minerals. And… it’s low in carbs and calories.

However… there’s another really important attribute of Kale.

Along with Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Bok Choy Pak Choy and cauliflower, kale is a cruciferous vegetable, meaning the flowers take the form of a cross. It also means that like other cruciferous vegetables, kale is rich in a chemical called sulforaphane, and this may be one of kale’s most important health attributes.

Sulforaphane is a sulphur-rich chemical that activates a gene pathway in animals as well as humans called Nrf2. When Nrf2 is ‘turned on’ by consuming sulforaphane rich foods, several important health-promoting mechanisms fire up. These include a reduction in inflammation, enhanced antioxidant protection, and powerful amplification of our ability to detoxify potential damaging chemicals.

Kale and all the other cruciferous vegetables are smart choices well beyond their simple nutritional content – they actually change the expression of our DNA for the better.

And.. now we also know that alkaline superfoods like Kale remove fluoride!