Breakfast Recipes with Cancer-Fighting Potential

Are you looking for ideas for delicious breakfast dishes that can also aid in the fight against cancer? This section of our Guide to Fighting Cancer is filled with ideas for breakfast dishes that rely on potentially cancer-fighting ingredients such as blueberries, carrots, oats and red grapes.

But before you unleash the culinary prodigy in you and peruse the breakfast recipes below, it might be a good idea to check out the diet section (Best Diet Tips for Cancer Prevention) as well as the food section (Best Foods for Fighting Cancer) of this guide in order to understand more about how diet affects the risk of cancer.

Dairy-Free Blueberry Muesli

Blueberries are one of the greatest health foods of all time and a great anti-cancer food. In a laboratory test conducted by USDA researchers, wild blueberries were shown to have the highest Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) rating of more than 20 fruits and berries. ORAC is a measure of the antioxidant capacity of foods. The antioxidant activity of wild blueberries was shown to be even stronger than that of cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, plums, or cultivated blueberries.
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Oat and Buckwheat Muesli with Pears and Grapes

Eating a bowl of this highly nutritious muesli for breakfast is a great way to start a day. The red grapes this muesli contains are rich in resveratrol and quercetin, natural substances with strong antioxidant and anti-cancer activity.
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Oat and Wheat Germ Muesli with Apples

Wheat germ is an excellent source of vitamin E and a great source of selenium and zinc. These nutrients play an important role in the antioxidant system of the body. Also the oats featured in this delectable muesli have cancer-fighting properties: they contain avenanthramides, unique antioxidants that have shown early promise against cancer.
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Original Bircher Muesli

Muesli was developed as a health food by the Swiss Physician Maximilian Bircher-Brenner towards the end of the 19th century. This is the original muesli recipe Mr Bircher-Benner recommended to his patients.
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Antioxidant Muffins

These scrumptious muffins feature blueberries and pecans, two antioxidant powerhouse foods. Blueberries top the list of berries with the highest antioxidant capacity, and pecans—along with walnuts and chestnuts—have the highest concentration of antioxidants in the tree nut family.
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Carrot Muffins

You may already know that carrots are good for eyes, but did you know that they are also an excellent anti-cancer vegetable? Carrots contain falcarinol—a compound that has been shown to inhibit the development of cancer.
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For more recipes that may help lower your odds of developing cancer, visit the main recipe directory of this Anti-Cancer Guide.