I wrote about the benefits of consuming bone broth here two years ago now. Fortunately since that post, bone broth has received much warranted attention through recipes and information shared by the likes of the Hemsley + Hemsley sisters and nutritional therapist Ameila Freer.
Bone broth continues to be my number one go-to immune booster and healing potion. I recommend all adults and children comfortable with eating animal products get sipping!
Why?
Because bone broth is one of the most nutrient dense soups available on the planet. Made from boiling animal bones, broth is supremely rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium and potassium, proteinaceous gelatine, cartilage, collagen, hyaluronic acid and chondrition sulphate.
By drinking bone broth you are helping to heal and seal your gut – your gut being the place where you house the majority of your immune system. With a strong immune system we are less likely to get ill, have allergic reactions, digestive complains, joint pain, muscle fatigue, learning difficulties, anxiety, depression and other mental health-related issues.
How do you make it?
I have written recipes here or you can watch the wonderful Amelia Freer making chicken broth here
Can you buy it?
- My number one go-to if I don’t have any fresh stock brewed is Great Lakes grass-fed beef gelatine powder – it is tasteless so if you want you can just add it to water and glug it down, or else it is a useful thickener in soups and smoothies. You can even make healthy marshmallows with it!
- Some good quality restaurants, organic butcheries and health stores sell bone broth. Just be sure to check their ingredients are free from gluten, added preservatives and sugars.
- Here in London Laverstock Farm lamb stock from Ocado is great
- New Yorkers can buy a cup of hot broth to takeaway from Brodo in the East Village
Want to learn more?
Check out Sally Fallon Morell’s latest book: Nourishing Broth: An Old Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World.
TASHA BE 
I drive my husband crazy with my love of bone broth. It is so healthy and a great way to make food out of ingredients that would have been thrown away. My dad smoked a turkey for Thanksgiving and I used that in my last batch. It gave the broth a nice smokey flavor that is good in certain recipes. Love it!
Haha well he’s a lucky husband really! I love the idea of making broth from smoked turkey wow! must give it a try thanku 🙂