Question: is bacon a superfood? because whenever i eat it i get super strength like superman, and i can fly.

Steven Gardner answered on 17 Jun 2013:

That made me laugh.

“Superfoods” are foods that have a large amount of a type of chemical called an antioxidant. Antioxidants react with chemicals call free radicals. Free radicals are extremely reactive chemicals that your body makes as a side effect of your metabolism (how you convert food into energy). The theory goes that free radicals can damage your cells by reacting with important molecules in them, like DNA, and this might be what causes cancer or even aging. Antioxidants stop this from happening by reacting with the free radicals before they have a chance to react with anything more important. Whether eating more food that contains antioxidants actually helps is another question, no sure that’s been conclusively shown yet, but most “Superfoods” are really good for you anyway, so I would encourage you to eat them. Sadly, bacon as far as I know doesn’t contain any antioxidants, and actually contains more fat and salt than is recommended. It should be eaten sparingly, which is a shame!