5 Of The Most Underrated Foods

The Chicago Tribune:

Some foods just can't get no respect. Today we're offering the flip side of the gastronomic dangers inherent in movie theater popcorn and Chinese food: five underrated foods. Get your grocery list out and jot these down.

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Comments

[ResearchtheFacts]

02:00 PM on 07/20/2010

Sunflowers seeds, I love them. Just got through eating some from a 14.5 oz bag. I take my sunflower seeds seriously. For a quick visual--the bag is half the size of my laptop screen.

[BasketWeaver]

12:58 AM on 07/19/2010

unicorn jerky

[Aerows]

10:19 PM on 07/18/2010

Watermelon, Kale and non-fat yogurt are no secrets to some of us. Watermelon is rich in nutrients and taken out of the freezer is better than sorbet. Non-fat yogurt substitutes for mayonnaise, for those of us that find mayonnaise absolutely disgusting (how do you like your eggs? Not at all, please). Kale and leafy greens - we all know the health benefits.

Chick peas and sunflower seeds? I'm not particularly caring if they are good for me since I have every intention of enjoying the foods I eat and those two won't ever reside on my menu.

[Sungaal]

06:55 PM on 07/18/2010

Love all of these, too.
Except the picture w/ the garbanzo beans -- NOT a good idea. Progresso's soup cans contain BPA, so guessing the beans would probably contain BPA as well. Yucko.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19596.cfm

[Aerows]

10:22 PM on 07/18/2010

Garbanzo beans are one form of bean I won't be eating. I get plenty of beans in the south in the form of red beans and rice or black beans.

Garbanzo's make me shudder. Ick.

[Sungaal]

04:38 PM on 07/19/2010

LOL no humus for you then, I gather? :-)
LOVE red beans and rice! Also eat a lot of black beans, Sonoran style.

[KIVPossum]

11:17 AM on 07/18/2010

Love all of them, though watermelons are so expensive here (about 8$ for a small round melon).

[Goliadkin]

06:33 PM on 07/18/2010

OK, you got me. I didn't want to ask, but where do you live? Smuggling in okra seeds, eight-dollar melons--you're not in Kansas anymore, that's for sure.

[KIVPossum]

06:52 AM on 07/19/2010

Chisinau, Moldova

[alieninvader]

11:12 AM on 07/18/2010

All pretty much dietary staples in this vegetarian's household.

[Goliadkin]

06:34 PM on 07/18/2010

Me, three.

[Goliadkin]

09:35 PM on 07/17/2010

My favorite snack is raw okra pods. Love the crunch.

[KIVPossum]

11:12 AM on 07/18/2010

You're killing me. there's no okra here and I've had an okra craving for a couple of weeks

[Goliadkin]

02:02 PM on 07/18/2010

Grow it!

[Aerows]

10:24 PM on 07/18/2010

We have enough okra growing in our garden to hand out to the neighbors, their neighbors and people that don't even live here.

I'm only a fan when it is included in gumbo, but here, everyone else eats it fried.

[Pema]

09:04 PM on 07/17/2010

gods i finally got something right, i have eaten all these food this week except sunflower seeds, i didn't use them on my salad, because i think vie had them a bit long. but they are great in salad or with brown rice, just the last 5 or 10 minutes of cooking. yummy...

[KellyRyan]

10:37 AM on 07/17/2010

I enjoy sunflower seeds in trail mix. The, "underrated garbanzo beans," are easy enough to eat and enjoy in either a bean salad or hummus.

[naschkatze]

07:54 AM on 07/17/2010

I don't eat sunflower seeds too often, but I love all the others.

[liarsclub75]

07:48 PM on 07/16/2010

Ew chick peas! The rest are good though. I might try growing my own sunflowers next year.

[VelenoSangue]

02:12 PM on 07/16/2010

I only see one item on the list here: The Chicago Tribune. Didn't even know it was edible.

I'd click through for the real list, but I read the post below this one.

[mellene]

01:21 PM on 07/16/2010

The Chicago Trib lists garbanzo beans, watermelon, unsweetened yogurt, sunflower seeds, leafy greens. I'm guessing that most of these foods usually do end up as part of your diet, but maybe sunflower seeds would be more in the snack category.

[Pema]

09:05 PM on 07/17/2010

try them on top of a salad, or dip cucumber sticks in them.

[Goliadkin]

02:03 PM on 07/18/2010

Sprout 'em, and you've got some real, live, raw food.

[leftpinkie]

01:15 PM on 07/16/2010

Who underrates these foods? Agro-businesses?

[faithnj]

10:16 AM on 07/18/2010

BINGO!