Are you eating this superfood?

As a child, my grandfather insisted, that I eat liver once a week. I didn’t like it! However, now that I understand just how good liver is, I’m grateful I acquired a taste for it in my youth.

Liver is nature’s most nutrient-dense superfood. This is why predatory animals eat it first instinctively knowing that organ meats are the densest source of nutrition.
 
Liver has been highly celebrated throughout history. Practically every cuisine has liver specialties. Before our industrialized food systems, traditional food cultures generally ONLY consumed the organ meats, the lean muscle meat, that we consume today was thrown away or used to feed other animals.
 
So why is liver so incredible?  Quite simply, it contains more nutrients, gram for gram, than any other food. In summary, liver provides:
 
 

• An excellent source of high-quality protein

• Nature’s most concentrated source of vitamin A

• All the B vitamins in abundance, particularly vitamin B12

• One of our best sources of folic acid

• A highly usable form of iron

• Trace elements such as copper, zinc and chromium; liver is our best source of copper

• An unidentified anti-fatigue factor

• CoQ10, a nutrient that is especially important for cardiovascular function.

 
Lightly coated in duck fat and pan-fried with onions and a small portion of mashed potatoes is my favorite and simple way to enjoy liver.