Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free
Getting off the processed-food and sugar train is an important step if you’re moving toward health, because refined sugars:
degrade your microbiome (<—which controls your whole health),
are tied to depression
disrupt the proper functioning of your endothelium (“The endothelium is directly involved in peripheral vascular disease, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, insulin resistance, chronic kidney failure, tumor growth, metastasis, venous thrombosis, and severe viral infectious diseases. Dysfunction of the vascular endothelium is thus a hallmark of human diseases.”)
exacerbate ADHD symptoms
are addictive
None of that sounds ideal, right?
How do I know if my go-to baked good is bad for me? Does it have refined flour, refined sugar, dairy, or eggs? If so, it is clinically, categorically proven to be bad for you.
Why? Refined sugar consumption is tied to cardiovascular disease (which is the #1 cause of death in America and much of the globe) and all of the diseases I listed above, refined flour consumption is also tied to cardiovascular disease (among other diseases), dairy & eggs are increasing your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and are environmentally harmful.
On the healthy flip-side, these brownies are whole-food plant-based: the only diet clinically proven to be the optimal diet for humans, and proven to reverse and prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Added bonus? It tastes like a delicious, fudgy oreo cookie and is full of:
nutrient-dense black beans
heart-healthy fiber from the whole-oat flour and beans
no refined sugars, just good old fashioned, whole-food fiber-filled fruit sugars (like dates —which are packed with minerals and vitamins— and bananas, which are full of health as well)
plant-based proteins and fats, so you’re paying the earth back with kindness and not participating in animal agriculture that is dooming us all with its environmental impact.
No time like the present to move forward toward taste, better health, and planetary health, eh? <3