The universally used and loved element in the art of cooking and you must master in order to truly fully appreciate food.

Vegetables. Often the most stereotypically heathy food group that we as people regularly consume. For ages humans have gathered and planted stalks and roots and entire civilizations have flourished on them.

Fruit. Back before there was candy and artificial sweeteners, there was fruit.

While come may see them as just calories in a can, beans are one of the most foundational foods on Earth, with some cultures having records of harvested them for the tens of thousands of years.

Meats. Often the centerpiece of the meal, meats offer a certain nutritional profile that is very difficult to impossible to replicate without them.

The next time you're digging through a bag of trail mix, maybe stop to think about what you might be missing when you only pick out the M&Ms.