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  Originating from the much-adored Sunflower, famous around the world for its iconic shape and colour, sunflower seeds are greyish or black tear-shaped seeds. If you look out for their distinctive vertical black and white stripes across its shell, you’ll find these seeds in almost every supermarket, either in standalone packages or mixed into assorted seed collections together with pumpkin seeds or other varieties. As these seeds have a very high oil content, they are a great source of polyunsaturated oil as well as a variety of different vitamins and minerals, including vitamin E that can support your health in...

From cookies to stir fries, ginger is used in a huge range of delicious dishes. But this superfood doesn’t just taste good – it offers loads of health benefits too. As well as being spasmolytic, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral, it’s loaded with essentials vitamins and nutrients that can help keep you feeling your best. Ginger can prevent and treat cold and flu Ginger has been used for thousands of years across Asia as a remedy for cold and flu, and now scientific studies are beginning to prove its effectiveness. In 2013, research published in the The Journal of Ethnopharmacology revealed that...