Here are ten other great ideas of all-natural vegan foods designed to complement your workout routine and get you the results you have always been looking for:
1. Avocados: An easy to digest fat, that is filling and high in vitamin e. If you’re trying to cut down on fat, try using it as a salad dressing instead of oil. It will make the salad more filling and satisfying. Here is what Tony Kay has to say about avocados: “Providing all of the 18 amino acids, avocados are bursting with nutrients, including vitamins A, C, E, H and B complex. Avocados are exceptional sources of vitamin K, potassium and essential fatty acids and users report softer skin, lustrous hair and hormonal balance.”
2. Camu Camu berry powder or lemons OR bell peppers: All great sources of vitamin C that your muscles really need after a workout.
3. Hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, and/or almonds or their butters: For protein, healthy fats, and calories. Try to eat these with greens to help digestion.
4. Bee Pollen: A great source of protein and amino acids as well as antioxidants. It’s known as one of nature’s perfect foods! (not technically vegan but sustainable and organic bee products are okay with most raw vegans)
5. Fermented foods: Saurkraut or Rejuvelac for instance (or probiotics in the morning). Kombucha too! Great for digestion and assimilation of all this nutrition and protein.
6. Digestive enzymes: Also will help you absorb all that protein your body might not be used to.
7. Raw oat groats: Raw oat groats have choline in them. Peter Ragnar talks about this as a very important part of weight training (Peter Ragnar can now leg press over 2,000 lbs!!!)
8. High-potassium foods: Bananas or raisins are great sources. Dulse too.
9. A green superfood power such as Vitamineral Green or Revitaphi to add to smoothies: Added nutrition and minerals.
10. Green algae superfoods such as spirulina, blue-green algae, and/or chlorella: Easy to assimilate protein and chlorophyll sources. Good for your brain too and detoxification too!
