
Member Reviews

It was nice to get some inspiration for vegan recipies. I am not fully vegan but I do think everyone should incorporate more vegetarian/vegan food in their diet. However, I do think there could have been more recipies and less of the so-called science of food.

There are some interesting vegan recipes here, but you have to ease through pages of pseudo-science ‘….tonifies your kidneys’ and bizarre, self obsessed word salads about every ingredient; ‘when I first started working with quinoa…’. Not for me.

This is an interesting book that I found helpful in some ways but it's not one I'd actually use as a cookbook. Wrobel is apparently a you-tube sensation and vegan star in his world, but he's not someone I'm familiar with. He writes with that sort of salesman tone where it's like he's trying to pump up a crowd or sell his book on an infomercial. The basic premise is that he introduces you to the vegan superfoods that will improve one element of your life/health in each chapter, and then gives you some recipes that use those.
The categories are eat for better sex, sleep, weight loss, happiness and good mood, energy, detoxification, brain power, muscle, immunity, strong bones, great skin, eyesight, healthy heart, and less stress. Each chapter has a list of the most important nutrients for that category and then a long list of the best foods for them. This is helpful and I liked it. The recipes, on the other hand, just don't work for me. They are generally full of powders and things that I don't have access to and don't want to. I prefer to cook with whole foods and don't want to buy supplement powders to put in my carrot almond ice cream float (not making that recipe up). And while I do prefer to cook healthy foods, these are just too much for me. Color photos accompany some of the recipes, but not many.
This was an interesting read, but I found that I just highlighted the food lists and the rest wasn't ultimately very helpful. If you are a hardcore vegan health nut, then this is likely to be more helpful.