If you live in NYC you've probably already taken notice to the bone broth booths popping up within the last year. You may be wondering, whats so great about a cup of broth? Below are a handful of bone broth benefits and my favorite places to grab a cup.
Benefits of Bone Broth:
Electrolytes: The minerals in bone broth make it the perfect post-workout pick me up, especially if your workout was a sweaty one. Consuming bone broth will help you replenish essential minerals you sweat out and help to rebalance your hydration.
Nutrients: Bone broth is naturally rich in vitamins like iron, magnesium, calcium, and phosphorous, making it a great low-calorie tool to help boost your daily nutrient levels.
Beauty: Bone broth is jam packed with collagen, therefore has amazing effects on rebuilding the cells in your skin, hair, and nails and getting rid of loose, saggy skin and fighting skin inflammation.
Joint Protection: When cooked, the collagen in bone broth becomes a form of gelatin. This gelatin helps the body repair overused and broken down joints in the body by rebuilding tissue surrounding the joints.
Digestion: Bone broth is rich in many amino acids, including one called glutamine. Glutamine helps breakdown food particles stuck in your digestive track and is known to relive symptoms of IBS and help heal a leaky gut (a condition that many of us unknowingly suffer from). Broth is also packed with healthy gut micro-biome and helps balance the healthy bacteria levels in your system and regulate stomach acid levels.
Sleep: The magnesium and amino acids in broth help sippers improve sleep and help improve energy and fatigue throughout the next day.
Weight Loss: Not only is bone broth basically calorie-free, it actually helps you speed up weight loss. How? A large portion of the bacteria in our gut are called firmicutes. Firmicutes are scientifically proven to slow down the body's metabolization of calories. Adding the bacteria in bone broth to the mix helps change the ratio of firmicutes and healthy bacteria in the gut, regulating and speeding up digestion. Broth can also help with weight loss by curbing cravings caused by vitamin deficiencies.
Where to grab a cup in NYC:
Springbone Kitchen
Springbone Kitchen offers a handful of different broth bases and flavor combinations composed of healthy fats, spices, and vitamins. I have tried a bunch of their broth combinations, their coffee and tea, and a few of the yummy items on their menu, like the Teriyaki Salmon Bowl. Everything I've had from Springbone has been delicious, nutritious and totally keto-friendly, which isn't always easy to find.
Brodo
Brodo has a few locations around the city and is my go-to postmates order when I'm feeling down in the dumps. Brodo has 3 broth bases to choose from (hearth, chicken, and beef) and a bunch of combinations created to help with whatever broth-benefit you're in need of - weather it be the cacao and caffeine in Morning-a-Go-Go or the relaxing rosemary oil in Tuscan Sun.
Barney's Bone Broth
The bones used in Barney's broth are simmered with a nutrient dense combination of spices and veggies for over 48 hours before served at the booth. Barney's four combinations - beef, chicken, vegan, and the original Barney's blend - were carefully crafted with taste, diet preference, and quality in mind. I love Barney's because I have the option to make my beauty beverage into a meal by adding grass fed meatballs, zucchini noodles, duck eggs, and more.
Store-Bought Brands:
If you walk into a supermarket looking for bone-broth, you may be overwhelmed by the plethora of broth brands. The number 1 thing to remember before even choosing a brand: BROTH AND STOCK ARE NOT EQUAL. Broth is simmered for much longer, has way more nutritional benefits, and has fewer carbs. After you distinguish what actually is bone-broth on the shelf you should read the nutrition facts before placing anything in your cart. Going with any bone-broth is going to be beneficial to your health, but like all products some brands are a better choice than others when considering simmering time, taste, and origin. A couple of my favorite store bought brands are:
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