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While kale sometimes gets a bad rap in the smoothie world because of its seemingly bitter taste, if done properly kale smoothies are some of the tastiest green smoothies you’ll ever have. Most kale smoothies make use of other sweet flavors to hide its taste, but you can actually bring out the true flavors of kale with a dash of almond milk, honey, and pineapple.

If vitamins could be packaged and labeled as such, they would look very much like kale. That’s because the vitamins offered by just one cup of this relatively little-known veggie can trump a whole week’s worth of other foods: 684% of the daily value of vitamin K, 206% of the suggested daily amount of vitamin A, and 134% of vitamin C (and even more vitamin C in the Scottish curly-leaf variety).

Kale can legitimately be called a superfood, if only after one particular study, which reported the high antioxidant activity in this vegetable. The phytonutrient indole-3-carbinol aids in DNA cell repair, while at the same time slowi...