Chicken liver disadvantages

What are the health benefits and risks to eating liver, how much should you be eating, what kind, and how often?

If you’ve been on your health and wellness journey for a while now, you’ve likely heard all manner of experts (both credentialed professionals and your favorite fitness podcasters) talk about shooting for a nutrient-dense diet filled with superfoods.

Nutrient density simply describes the relationship between micro and macronutrients—a food that has a lot of micronutrients per calorie or gram of carb, fat, or protein has a high nutrient density.

You’re probably thinking that the best place to get all those healthy nutrients is by eating your body weight in vegetables, superfoods like acai berries and goji berries, and taking a good, comprehensive multivitamin supplement.

And yes, fruits, veggies, and a good quality multi are excellent sources of a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

But what you might not realize is that some animal products are actually far more nutrient-dense than even the richest plant foods.

Organ meats (offal), specifically l