Real food for real people! What's the most nutritious food on the planet? Fresh greens!

Having been homeless for about 7 months, and extremely poor for many years beyond that, I know all too well that real, wh***, healthy food isn't always easy to come by, even through food subsidy programs, where empty calorie, fatty, heavily processed food is usually what's on the menu. But I was lucky enough to discover how easy it is to find and grow my own high quality food, even when the most permanent structure I could call my own was a bicycle and bike trailer...

If you take a look at the USDA's data on nutritional values for food (scroll down a bit for the good stuff), you discover something absolutely unheard of in most kitchens, which is that the absolute top food, out of pretty much everything you can buy in most grocery stores is, drumroll please....

Basil!

And closely following in the awesomeness factor for power foods are:

Taro leaves
Asparagus
Horseradish-tree leafy tips
Dock
Alfalfa sprouts
Turnip green
Chervil
Kale
Zucchini
Mustard greens
Jute
Chives
Sweet potato leaves
Lambsquarters
Collards
Pokeberry shoots
Celtuce
Broccoli raab
Mustard spinach
Spearmint
Peppermint
Purslane

You might notice that not only are most of these foods from plants that grow wild in a lot of areas, but also that nearly all of these foods are the leaves, stems, and sprouts of the plant, rather than the fruits or roots, which mean that these foods can be grown much more quickly than fruits/veggies. And many of these can be grown in small spaces, on roofs, in windows, and in less than ideal growing soil, or in the case of sprouts no soil at all! And most of these produce an abundance of seeds for continuing the process, so the only need is for starter plants or seeds. Promoting the idea of finding or growing the highest quality foods right in your own community, yard, home, or even in your bicycle's basket or panniers, solves many problems at once, because dark green leafy plants not only offer the best food value on the wh*** planet, but these plants also act as water and air purifiers, and studies have shown that looking at plants has a very relaxing effect, which is something many of us in this stressful world can use. :-)

Wheatgrass is also another excellent option. For some reason the USDA didn't bother to study wh***, fresh wheatgrass (they only included packaged, processed, pasturized juice), but in other studies wheatgrass has been shown to be extremely potent food, as well as a medicine that helps heal all sorts of illnesses, so I believe wheatgrass deserves far more research by a variety of non-profit science groups to establish it's true value for humans.

Eating local, and focusing resources on the highest quality foods makes sense in nearly every respect, don't you think?