Darina Allen: This Carrageen Moss Pudding is easy to make and full of nutrients

You don’t have to go far to find Irish superfoods

Carrageen moss is one of my enduring superfoods — it’s easy to source, dried in health food shops, and inexpensive considering the nutritional value.

Superfood always sounds like a gimmicky marketing term for an often exotic food or indeed a drink that purports to have exceptional nutritional benefits. Think goji berries, moringa, chaga mushrooms, maqui berries, tiger nuts. It seems to change every year but we don’t need to search across the globe, we’ve got lots of superfoods right here in Ireland that will add pep to our step on a daily basis.

Kale is loaded with vitamins, minerals, and trace elements but so is a humble Savoy cabbage and all of the broccoli, Romanesco, and greater brassica family. That is, provided it’s super fresh and chemical-free. Freshness really matters — vegetable and fruit nutrient content, not to mention the flavour, start to tick away from the moment it’s harvested.