The Detoxifying Ingredient That Will Elevate Your Avocado Toast

Packed with nutrients, avocado toast is the breakfast of champions for many millennials. The meal comes loaded with healthy fats, grains, and potassium that can power you through your day (you should even be eating it while pregnant!). But, an ingredient that adds even more goodness to your toast – or any other meal – comes from one of the most polarizing flavors.

A powerful herb that detoxifies as it supports your system, cilantro will give your avocado toast the boost you never knew you needed. Simply make your toast as usual – on whole grain bread, with sliced or mashed avocado – then add sliced tomatoes to taste and chop up a few leaves of cilantro to top your spread. 

While it may be small, the herb does as much for your taste buds as it does for your health. Perhaps one of the chief benefits of adding cilantro to your diet comes from its ability to rid the body of trace metals like lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic (via Dr. Axe). Properties in cilantro help these particles bind together so that they can more easily release from your tissues and leave your system. Since anything from water and air pollution to the quality of the food you eat can deposit these metals, and they can cause health problems as they accumulate, using cilantro more frequently can be an important addition to your diet, as noted by Dr. Axe.