The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Six hidden superfoods you probably already have in your pantry.

I generally don't subscribe to the idea of superfoods.

While I'll try your obscure Amazonian berry that spent a fortnight fermenting in a

capabara's colon, I won't join your pyramid scheme to help sell it.

I may very well add a teaspoon of gelatinized macar root to my

smoothie, but I won't claim it's responsible for my great health. These foods are perfectly

nutritious, contain impressive levels of some unique phytonutrients, and often have robust clinical

support as inclusions in healthy diets. But come on, who's regularly

eating goji berries for $15 a pound? They're not even that great. I'm far more interested in the

regular superfoods, the normal foods that we don't necessarily consider super. The ones that are

just there, but have incredible health benefits just the same.

So don't expect to see dried Himalayan mulberries, killer bee pollen, or raw cacao nips on this list,

or grass-fed beef liver, or pastured eggs, or any of the other animal foods we cherish and

exalt in the primal community. Those have

been covered to death. It's time to highlight the regular everyday foods we probably take for granted.

Onions. We forget about the onion, don't we? But there it is. Wherever you go and whatever you

eat. From France's Mirpoix, carrots, onions, and celery, Spain's so frito, onion, garlic,

and tomatoes, Cajun cuisine's Trinity, onions, celery, and bell peppers, and Italy's

Batuto, carrots, onions, and celery.

Onions formed the base of many of the world's great cuisines.

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