Breakfast Recipes for Strong and Healthy Hair
If you are interested in breakfast recipes that can help maintain strong, beautiful and healthy hair, you have come to the right place! This page presents a selection of hair health promoting breakfast recipes that can help support your regime for thick, healthy hair.
Antioxidant Muffins
These delicious 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
These scrumptious muffins deliver amino acids necessary for healthy hair as well as copper and iron. As an added bonus, the carrots featured in these muffins provide your body with some antioxidants.
See the RecipeSpinach and Mushroom Omelet
This easy-to-make omelet provides a great deal of high quality protein which is essential for healthy hair. What's more, spinach, one of the key ingredients in this omelet, is loaded with beta-carotene and folate which help keep hair strong and shiny. Spinach and mushrooms are also an excellent source of the wrinkle-fighting B vitamins.
See the RecipeSpicy Shrimp Omelet
Both eggs and shrimp contain plenty of iron, a mineral that is crucial for healthy hair. Iron carries oxygen to the hair, and an inadequate intake of iron may cause the hair follicles to starve of oxygen. Women who are menstruating (especially if they have heavy periods), women who are pregnant or have just given birth, long-distance runners, and vegans are often deficient in iron.
See the RecipeMillet Pancakes with Prune Compote
Millet is more than an alternative to the more common grains. It is crammed with nutrients that promote healthy hair, including B vitamins, zinc, and iron. It is also one of the best sources of silica. Silica is an important component of hair, and an adequate intake of silica is thought to prevent baldness and stimulate hair growth. Also the prunes featured in this dessert help maintain strong hair due to their high concentration of B vitamins, copper, iron, and zinc.
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Oat and Buckwheat Muesli with Pears and Grapes
Having a bowl of this nutrition-packed muesli for breakfast is a good way to start your day. Oats are highly nutritious and an excellent source of B vitamins, zinc and copper, some of the most important micronutrients for promoting healthy hair. They are also a great vegetarian source of dietary protein. The grapes featured in this muesli contain resveratrol and quercetin, two potent antioxidants that help protect hair by scavenging free radicals.
See the RecipeOat and Wheat Germ Muesli with Apples
Oats and wheat germ are highly nutritious and an excellent source of B vitamins and zinc, which are among the most important micronutrients for maintaining healthy hair, skin, and nails. The apples featured in this healthy breakfast provide antioxidant protection.
See the RecipeOriginal 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.
See the RecipeFor more recipes that can help you maintain healthy hair, visit the main recipe directory of HealWithFood.org's Guide to Healthy Hair.
