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The events of 2016 can be summed up as the salt and pepper flavoring a plate of pandemonium. That said, there were some things that were not so unsavory. In fact, 2016 food trends showed an improvement in comparison to previous years in terms of nutrition. Instagram and other social media sites ate up healthy food.So let’s bring in 2017 with a look at the healthiest food trends of 2016 andtry to keep（尝试做某事）the craze going strong!

Try doing尝试看看可不可行（=test）

1. Zucchini noodles（西葫芦面条）

Also known by the catchy name “#zoodles（西葫芦面条）,” spiralized zucchini was a huge player this year in also sorts of picture worthy recipes. Zoodles and pesto, zoodles and marinara, baked zoodles, and zoodles and shrimp… basically, anything that calls for pasta can use zucchini-noodles.

What makes zoodles so delectable is that anything in the squash family islow in calories, dense in minerals and vitamins, and high in fiber.Plus, if you have awheat（小麦）orgluten（面筋；麸质）allergy（过敏性反应）, or are simply cutting down on carbs, theswapis ano-brainer.（南瓜属的食物，低热量，含矿物质和维生素，并且有很高的膳食纤维。如果你对小麦和面筋过敏，作为一种替换，也是非常简单的。）

Allergic to对什么过敏

2. Sweet potato

2016 saw the rise of the sweet potato into stardom. Sweet potatoes have been baked, fried, diced, pureed, and now toasted. Yes, you might have seen sweet potato toast trending on Instagram and loading up Pinterest boards throughout the year. This is because sweet potatoes are simply delicious. Andversatile（adj.多才多艺的；多功能的）.

Sweet potatoes contain about 483% of your daily value of vitamin A and a huge dose of vitamin C. The fiber and carb content balances it out too, making it the perfect bread substitute for powering an early morning run.

3. Matcha（抹茶）

I adore matcha. 2016 proved I am not the only one. Living in Japan made me realize how crazily useful this green tea powder can be – and not just for drinking. You might have noticed matcha showing up in desserts, like matcha ice cream, pastries, crèmes, and cookies.

However, I have also sprinkled matcha into coffee, chai tea, on apples, and swirled it into peanut butter. Though the antioxidant-packed（充满）powder（抹茶充满了抗氧化剂）can be bitter by itself, adding it to cereal or yogurt amplifies the health benefits and brings out the natural flavor.

4. Avocado（牛油果）

The buttery flavor of avocado really made it an MVP this year in just about any recipe you can imagine. Super healthy, rich in monosaturated (good) fat单不饱和脂肪, and with the power to lower bad cholesterol（胆固醇）and promotesatiety（饱腹感）, avocados are a nutritional powerhouse. Not to mention that it is lower in calories than butter.

Check out #avocadotoast for a sea of variations on this uber-popular breakfast, lunch, or dinner option. Not to mention avocado ice cream, avocado succotash, avocado sushi, avocado mousse, guacamole, and avocado pesto sauce. I could go on and on, but then I will just get hungry.

5. Cold brew coffee（冷泡咖啡）

Finally, coffee was cut some slack in 2016. Especially the luscious flavors of cold brewed java. Unlike a hot cup of joe, the chilled variation receives a boost in nutritional value. When coffee is heat, some of the oils and fatty acids – good ones – get boiled away.

But with cold brew coffee, those remain, thus granting the coffee a smooth, silky taste that is friendly enough for everyone’s taste buds. If that is not enough of a reason,coffee ispacked withantioxidants and boosts your immune system.Drink up.

6. Egg + avocado（牛油果）

Move aside Victoria and David Beckham, there is a new power couple in town. Egg and avocado are the hottest food pairing since smoked fish and cream cheese. And much more nifty. For example, one of the most searched recipes this year was baked eggs in avocados.

Another is egg and avocado on sprouted grain bread. Egg and avocado BLTs, avocado egg salad, fried egg with guacamole and sriracha. Let your creativity go wild with these two ingredients. There are so many ways to use this pairing, and the results are always miraculous.

7. Turmeric

A buzz word this year was “#goldenmilk.” What makes that milk so beautiful? The spice is known as turmeric.Jam-packed（名词后加形容词，在一个句子里表示2种陈述的方法。）withcurcumin（姜黄素）, an anti-inflammatory, as well as anti-carcinogens, blood glucose controllers, and other medicinal benefits, turmeric is not to be underestimated.

Try addingturmericto warmed milk before bed, or put a dash in your morning coffee. The nuttiness is quite enjoyable, especially when paired with cinnamon. Or, use it in soups, curries, on grilled mushrooms, or even in ice cream.

8. Pho

This healthy Vietnamese soup dish has been gaining steam since 2013. In 2016, the world saw an explosion of pho recipes and reasons for why you should start slurping the noodles as soon as possible. There is ongoing of the list of what makes pho stupendous, but the main reasons are that it has medicinal properties. A rich bone broth, which has a slew of benefits by itself, is accompanied by thin sliced protein sources (anywhere from beef to tofu), kale, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms… whatever you like can be used to flavor the soup.

9. Cauliflower rice（花菜）

You know, when my father, who absolutely loathes cauliflower, was introduced to “cauliflower rice,” he could not taste the difference. Of course, I did not tell him until he scoopedaheaping spoonful（一满勺）into his mouth. Shock aside, he confessed that it was really good, and really filling, unlike horribly processed white rice that has been stripped of everything that makes rice nutritious and necessary.

What I love is that cauliflower rice tastes good with just about everything, has half the calories of rice, and is just as satisfying, if not more so, than rice. Try it topped with some parmesan cheese and tomatoes. So, so good. And let’s not forget cauliflower pizza crust in 2017 either.

10. Poke

A Hawaiian dish that is pronounced poh-KAY is kind of similar to the Japanese rice bowl topped with sashimi. However, instead of seasoned rice, Poke features raw fish cut into cubes then tossed with ingredients like scallions, soy sauce, and sesame seeds. Poke is a great way to mix up toppings for seaweed salads, zoodles, avocado, or even with a heaping bowl of cauliflower rice.

11. Zucchini oatmeal（西葫芦燕麦粥）

Otherwise known as “#zoats” and #healthy oatmeal, this is a spruced up（提升，提高）version of overnight oatmeal (when oats are soaked in milk or fruit or water while you sleep). The idea behind zoats comes from things like zucchini bread and muffins to up the vegetable serving and adding the unique flavor of this functional squash to your life. Again, zucchini adds little calories or carbs, so it can up the serving size of oatmeal to make it more satisfying without destroying your diet.

12. Sprouted things（芽苗）

Although sprouted seeds, legumes, beans, and grains didn’t see much fame on Instagram, chefs and nutritionists realized just how important they are this year. Anything that is considered as seed, like chia seeds, peas, sunflower seeds, and various grains can be sprouted, and those sprouts prove enzyme-rich, edible yumminess that quite literally flood our bodies with nutrients.

You might see things like “sprouted grain salad,” “sprouted hummus,” “mung bean sprout yakisoba,” “sprouted seed and grain bread,” and other similar recipes. Just be sure you follow another trend and buy organic, non-GMO sprouts. Otherwise, you risk losing valuable nutrients.

So many healthy food trends flooded the annals of social media in 2016. The beauty of avocados and eggs, the delightful green matcha desserts, and the scintillating flavor of golden milk gained mass approval and popularity. Hopefully, these food trends will continue in 2017 and help promote clean and healthy habits well into the future.

单词：

·sum (sth/sb) up: to describe or express the important facts or characteristics about something or someone

·pandemonium: a situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion because people are excited, angry or frightened

·unsavory:难吃的

·in terms of:在……方面

·eat (sth) up: to eat all the food that you have been given

·craze: an activity, object or idea that is extremely popular, usually for a short time

·zucchini:西葫芦

·catchy: (especially of a tune or song) pleasing and easy to remember

·spiral:螺旋

·pesto:青酱

·marinara:意式蒜香番茄酱

·call for:要求，需要

·delectable: beautiful; giving great pleasure

·squash:南瓜属植物的果实

·gluten:麸质，面筋

·allergy:过敏

·swap: an exchange, or something that is going to be or has been exchanged

·no-brainer: something that is very simple to do or to understand

·stardom: fame

·bake: to cook inside a cooker, without using added liquid or fat

·dice: n.骰子v.切成方块

·purée: puréeing to make fruit or vegetables into a thick smooth sauce by crushing them, usually in a machine

·toast: to make bread or other food warm, crisp (= hard enough to break) and brown by putting it near a high heat

·load up:装满

·versatile: to change easily from one activity to another or able to be used for many different purposes

·balance (sth) out:平衡

·crème:奶油

·sprinkle:撒

·chai:印度奶茶

·swirl:使成漩涡

·antioxidant-packed:富含抗氧化剂的

·-packed: full of the thing described

·amplify: to increase the size or effect of something

·avocado:鳄梨，牛油果

·MVP: Most valuable player

·monosaturated:单不饱和的

·cholesterol:胆固醇

·satiety:饱腹感

·powerhouse:权威

·not to mention: used when you want to emphasize something that you are adding to a list

·a sea of sth: a large amount or number of something

·über- , uber-: used before nouns to mean 'extreme' or 'extremely good/successful'

·Succotash is a food dish consisting primarily of sweet corn with lima beans or other shell beans.

·Guacamole is an avocado-based dip or salad first created by the Aztecs in what is now Mexico. In addition to its use in modern Mexican - cuisine, it has also become part of American cuisine as a dip, condiment and salad ingredient.

·cut sb some slack:放某人一马to not judge someone as severely as you usually would because they are having problems at the present time

·luscious: having a pleasant sweet taste or containing a lot of juice

·Java:爪哇

·joe:普通

·boost:增加，提升

·fatty acid:脂肪酸

·grant:赋予

·taste bud:味蕾

·bepackedwith:富含

·food pairing:食物搭配

·nifty: good, pleasing or effective

·BLT: A BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato) is a type of bacon sandwich. The standard BLT is made up of four - ingredients: bacon, lettuce, tomato and bread.

·Sriracha:一种辣椒酱

·miraculous: very effective or surprising or difficult to believe

·buzz:嗡嗡声

·jam-packed: full of people or things that are pushed closely together

·anti-inflammatory:消炎剂

·anti-carcinogen:防癌剂

·blood glucose:血糖

·underestimate:低估

·a dash: a small amount of something, especially liquid food, that is added to something else

·Vietnamese:越南的

·gain steam:迅速增长

·slurp: to drink a liquid noisily as a result of sucking air into the mouth at the same time as the liquid

·stupendous: very surprising, usually in a pleasing way, especially by being large in amount or size

·broth: a thin soup, often with vegetables or rice in it

·slew: a large amount or number

·kale:羽衣甘蓝

·broccoli:西兰花

·cauliflower:菜花

·loathe: to hate someone or something

·scoop:（用勺子）舀出

·spoonful: an amount held in a particular spoon

·filling: If food is filling, you feel full after you have eaten only a little of it.

·strip:剥去，除去

·season:调味

·toss:混合，搅拌

·scallion:青葱

·sesame:芝麻

·topping:浇头

·seaweed:海藻

·oatmeal:燕麦片，燕麦粥

·spruce sb/sth up: to make someone or something cleaner and tidier or to improve the way they appear generally

·up: to increase something such as a price

·sprout:发芽，长头发

·legume:豆科植物

·chia seed:奇亚籽（鼠尾草籽）

·yummy: tasting extremely good

·literally: simply or just

·hummus:鹰嘴豆泥

·mung bean sprout:绿豆芽

·yakisoba:日式炒面

·non-GMO (genetically modified organisms):非转基因

·scintillating: interesting, exciting and clever

·approval: when you have a positive opinion of someone or something

长句：

Anythingthatisconsidered as seed, like chia seeds, peas, sunflower seeds,andvarious grainscan besprouted, and those sproutsproveenzyme-rich, edible yumminessthatquite literallyfloodour bodies with nutrients.

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