Foods for magnesium
What APEX holds on the table for magnesium: 22 foods, each with where it comes from and why it is ours. Not a treatment plan — the food, and the reason it is on the list.
Compiled by APEX Legacy from published research and documented food
history, under the editorial direction of
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Nuts & Seeds
Watermelon Seed The watermelon seed — spit out by most, treasured by those who know — is a dense little… Pumpkin Seeds (Pepitas) One ounce of pumpkin seeds provides 37% of daily magnesium — the mineral chronically… Poppy Seed Poppy seed is the tiny, slate-blue baking seed that speckles muffins, cakes, and breads… Sunflower Seeds Highest vitamin E content of any commonly consumed seed. Egusi Seeds Egusi seeds are 50% fat (primarily linoleic acid, an omega-6 that reduces LDL… Marcona Almond The Marcona is a rounder, sweeter, more delicate almond than the everyday California nut… Almonds Almonds provide the most comprehensive single-nut nutritional profile: vitamin E (highest… Bottle Gourd Seed Gourd seed — the dried, shelled seed of bottle gourds and related cucurbits — is a core…
Beans & Peas
Egusi Dried melon seeds ground into a protein and fat-rich soup base. Moth Bean Small, cylindrical, brownish-tan legume requiring sprouting for best nutrition and…
Rice, Grains & Starch
Laax A smooth, thick millet-flour porridge layered with cultured sour milk and often baobab or… Pearl Millet The drought-defying grain of the Sahel. Pearl millet fed empires — Ghana, Mali, Songhai… Lakh Thick pearl-millet porridge cooked soft and served with sour milk, often with peanut or… Mbaxal Steamed millet couscous served under a thick groundnut-and-bean sauce, often with… Ngalakh Steamed millet couscous bound with baobab fruit pulp (bouye) and groundnut paste… Thiakry Steamed millet couscous folded into cultured sour milk or yogurt, sweetened, and chilled… Cere Hand-rolled steamed pearl millet couscous — the daily bread of Wolof and Serer households…
Fruit
Pawpaw Fruit The largest edible fruit native to North America. Custard-like texture, tropical…
Dishes & One-Pots
Domoda The Gambia's national dish — meat or fish slow-stewed in a thick groundnut (peanut) sauce…
Vegetables
Nopales Flat, paddle-shaped cactus pads with spines removed. Mucilaginous (similar to okra — same…
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