Forget Broccoli - The Superfood Of 2016 Is Fry-Up Favourite BLACK PUDDING

One thing you wouldn’t expect when compiling your superfood diet now that January is here would be something you’d find on a fried breakfast.

However, this year you can include black pudding to your new year shopping list as experts reckon it is about to be extremely popular in 2016.

The divisive breakfast staple - traditionally made using pig blood and oatmeal - is actually full of protein, calcium and potassium.

It also enjoys the benefit of being nearly carb free and packed full of anaemia-preventing iron - something lacking in modern diets.

The addition of black pudding to the superfood list will be something of a shock to most, and Darren Beale from MuscleFood.com is just as surprised.

Breakfast staple: Black pudding is traditionally found on a fry up (Rex)

He said: “Some of the foods have been on the up for a while like avocado oil and maca root, but others like mushrooms and black pudding have been a total surprise to us.

“It’s great to have this new research available to find out the hidden qualities in food and we can’t wait to see how these new trends take off.”

The black pudding surge has already begun in earnest, with one Scottish butchers, famed for their blood sausages, already seeing sales soar.

Benefits: The blood sausage is full of iron that can prevent fatigue (Rex/posed by model)

Shona Macleod, managing director of Charles Macleod Butchers in Stornoway, told MailOnline: “The shop has just opened again.

“I opened the mail orders and we had about 40 black pudding mail orders to go out today.

“That’s is a lot for the first day open in January.”

Other superfoods set to be huge this year include seaweed, black beans and birch water.

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