I am really proud of my friend Amie Valpone, who is known in the blog world as The Healthy Apple.  She has a new book being released today called Eating Clean:  The 21-Day Plan to Detox, Fight Inflammation and Reset Your Body.  The book outlines her journey of how she healed from a decade (yes, a decade) of chronic illness and it is filled with over 200 detox-approved plant-based recipes free of gluten, dairy, soy, refined sugar, eggs, corn and processed ingredients.   As I tell my students in every single class I teach, I don’t care what you call the diet you follow, the ideal diet is an anti-inflammatory, low-glycemic one.  You can take a peek at her book here, but today I am sharing a recipe for these Sunrise Nori Wraps which looked like something I would want to eat all the time.

There is a place in Santa Monica actually called Kye’s where they serve the most delicious “Kye-ritos,” which are essentially super tasty nori wraps in many different flavor profiles.  Nori is the seaweed used to make sushi rolls and it is incredibly nutrient-dense.  Nori, like most sea vegetables are very high in minerals, especially iodine, calcium, iron, magnesium.  Nori also contains tons of vitamin C as well as anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory properties.  It is obviously a superior vessel for a wrap over a processed flour tortilla!

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