What are the most nutritious food?

When we look at different types of food and different levels of processing of foods, we can start on one hand looking at highly processed junk foods. Processed junk foods are things like potato chips and you know, candy bars, and they would probably be the lowest nutritional content.

If we then look at the next best foods for our bodies and our growing children's bodies we see that if we look at things like processed canned foods or processed flours, these ones will provide us with a little bit more, in terms of nutritional content.,but, you know, they are not perfectly ideal, when you see what the next category has to offer.

So, we get even more nutrition when we are looking at foods like unprocessed or less processed types of.
Unprocessed grains and things like root vegetables,like beets and carrots,also allium vegetables,those are things like onions and garlic come under this category. Those things also offer us substantially more nutritional
value than processed junk food or processed canned food.

The last category, the one that gives us the most nutritional bang for our buck, are the very famous and very important things like fresh fruits and vegetables. So, these are obviously unprocessed. And these guys really give our bodies the most nutritional value, the highest nutrient density.

So what that means is that the foods on bottom row are low in nutrient density, are low in nutrition, and they're also foods that don't spoil very quickly, so they last for a really long time. And this is one of the reasons why they're so profitable for processed food manufactuers to make and sell.

And then on the other end, if we look up at the top here we see that these foods are very high in their nutrient density, or in their nutritional value to us. And at the same time they are going to spoil quickly because other sort of pests are going to compete for these foods. So what that means is, if we have something that we call a spoil rate, or the rate at which a food is going to go off if we leave it in our homes, then the spoil rate is going to go up with increasing nutrient density. So, if at all possible, we should choose foods that spoil quickly. Because that usually means that they're going to be better for us.