When it comes to boosting the flavor of any salad you need to add some fat. Not only does dietary fat help your body absorb fat-soluble nutrients found in foods like tomatoes and carrots, it is also one of the most important conveyors of flavor that exist.
In other words, if you eat a fat-free salad it probably won’t taste very good and you probably won’t be too excited about eating it every day either!
However, pouring excessive amounts of processed salad dressings or low-quality, pro-inflammatory and highly refined oils like the corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil and “pure” vegetable oil used to make the vast majority of commercial salad dressings, on top of your salad all in the name of taste enhancement isn’t exactly the best way to go about boosting health.
Clean Cuisine’s Superfood Salad Boosters offer a tasty solution as a gourmet salad dressing alternative to empty calorie and highly refined bottled salad dressings and oily condiments. Now you can have your salad and eat it too…without the guilt.
Whole Fats are the Healthiest Fats
The healthiest fats are always in their “whole” and unprocessed form such as raw nuts, raw seeds, olives and avocados. This means if you had to choose between eating an olive or olive oil, the healthiest choice would be the raw naked olive.
The “whole” olive will have more nutrients than the oil, especially because most oils are not processed properly (this is particularly true of the omega-6 rich oils such as soybean oil and canola oil that are ubiquitous in bottled salad dressings.)
Clean Cuisine Salad Boosters contain healthy “whole” fats from raw nuts and seeds. And, because the raw nuts and seeds are ground into small crumbs (as shown in the photo above), they can be sprinkled over your salad so that you get a bit in every salad bite.
If you simply add a few whole walnuts or almonds to your salad you might get the health benefits but you won’t get the same taste satisfaction you would get if the nuts were ground into crumbs.
Sprinkle a few tablespoons of the Salad Booster and just a drizzle of high quality cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil on top of your salad and you’ll have an amazingly healthy and super tasty salad in seconds!
Superfood Salad Boosters are Not Just for Salads…
The Salad Booster is also the perfect condiment for giving a tasty boost to whole grains, baked potatoes, roasted vegetables and so much more. With help from a Salad Booster you can enjoy truly healthy gourmet meals in minutes.
Make Your Own Salad Booster!
PrintGarlic Herb Salad Booster


Ingredients
- ½ cup pine nuts or
- ¼ cup white raisins
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon unrefined sea salt
Instructions
- Put the first 3 ingredients in and process into crumbs.
- Add the remaining ingredients and process again until mixture is crumbly and moist.
- Sprinkle a few tablespoons on top of your salad. Save the rest in a zip-top bag and store in the freezer.
Notes
Succulent Tomato Salad Booster
8 dried organic apricots1/3 cup sundried tomatoes
¼ cup + 2 TBS pine nuts
1 clove garlic
2 pinches cayenne pepper
¼ cup hemp seeds
Almond-Lime Salad Booster
1/3 cup slivered almonds
5 organic pitted dates
½ teaspoon lime zest
1 teaspoon Nutritional Yeast (optional)
¼ teaspoon red chili flakes (optional)
Curry Walnut Salad Booster
½ cup raw walnuts
3 tablespoons white raisins
¼ teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon curry powder
2 teaspoons ginger root, freshly grated
1/8 teaspoon unrefined sea salt
Superfood Salad Booster
½ cup sundried tomatoes
1/3 cup raw pecans
½ cup raw pine nuts
3 tablespoons raw goji berries
2 teaspoons nutritional yeast
½ teaspoon truffle salt
1/3 cup dried oyster mushrooms
½ teaspoon dried sage
½ teaspoon granulated garlic
Looking for a salad dressing to pair with our salad boosters?
Click here for salad dressing recipes.
Mary E. Gallaghersays
It may have bee a long time ago or an urban myth but I thought we weren’t supposed to eat pine nuts because they mostly came from China and weren’t real or good for us or something?
Aimee Harris Niedosiksays
I believe that’s an urban myth — this is a great resource to check the sourcing of pine nuts! https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/nut-trees/pine-nut/pine-nut-harvesting.htm
Tess Gsays
My child is anaphylactic to all tree nuts. I was disappointed that I could not use any of your recipes listed. Do you have any tried-and-true Salad Booster recipes that do not contain nuts? Thank you.
Ivy Larsonsays
Oh Tess, I know what a difficult time you must have =( My husband anaphylactic to shrimp and it can be a real hassle (not to mention, HUGE worry!!) However, how about trying to substitute hemp seeds for the nuts?! I am almost certain this will work. Please be sure to let me know if you give it a try!!
Liz Tsays
Thank you for the salad booster recipes! I just tried the Almond Lime Booster and I was surprised at how delicious it made my salad. I had a piece of whole grain bread with my salad and I usually have the bread finished halfway through my salad. But, I was enjoying the salad so much that I had a half piece of the bread left over and the salad was gone!
I followed your recipe as closely as I could but had to substitute whole almonds for slivered. I just pulsed them by themselves a bit first, then followed the recipe exactly. The chili flakes really made it, so I would encourage people to use them.
Ivy Larsonsays
oh thank you so much for the great feedback Liz! I am so happy you liked it 😉 And yes, I totally agree about the chili flakes!
Hssonssays
No spirulina? Count me in! Looks nice too, going to try the walnut one out tonight. Thanks!