Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable? Top 10 Confused Foods
A cucumber. A pickle. They’re the same thing, but are they fruits or vegetables? Cucumber is actually a fruit.
19 Ways to Enhance Your Sense of Humor
As Mark Twain once said, “Studying humor is like dissecting a frog — you may know a lot but you end up with a dead frog.” Nonetheless, we’re giving it a try. Here are 19 tips for getting — or growing — your sense of humor, based partly on the idea that you can’t be funny if you don’t understand what funny is.
Worlds Healthiest Foods- Food of the Week: Grapes August 15, 2017Grapes have a long and abundant history. While they've grown wild since prehistoric times, evidence suggests they were cultivated in Asia as early as 5000 BC. The grape also played a role in numerous biblical stories, being referred to as the "fruit ...
- Recipe of the Week: 5-Minute Grapes in Honey-Lemon Sauce August 15, 2017This is a quick flavorful way to serve grapes in a No-Bake dessert taken from page 537 of the 2nd Edition of the World's Healthiest Foods book. With our No-Bake recipes you save vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and most of the nutrients by not ...
- Best sources of Vitamin B2 August 15, 2017Vitamin B2, also known as riboflavin, is arguably the only vitamin that gives you a visual cue as to its passage through your body. When there is a lot of vitamin B2 in the diet (or in a supplement), your urine turns bright yellow to show you it is ...
- From the kitchen: Tips for Preparing Grapes August 15, 2017Grapes should be washed under cold running water right before consuming or using in a recipe. After washing, either drain the grapes in a colander or gently pat them dry. If you are not going to consume the whole bunch at one time, use scissors to ...
- Your website strongly encourages consumption of vegetables - including consumption of cruciferous vegetables like kale. But what about risk of contamination by thallium? Aren't cruciferous vegetables likely to contain unwanted amounts of this heavy metal? August 15, 2017Thallium contamination of food has become a controversial topic on websites and other public media. However, after reviewing numerous research studies in this area, we have not found as much controversy about thallium and its relationship to food ...
- Can you tell us more about the bromelain in pineapple? August 15, 2017Bromelain is a complex mixture of substances that can be extracted from the stem and core fruit of the pineapple. Among dozens of components known to exist in this crude extract, the best studied components are a group of protein-digesting enzymes ...
- What are the best sources of iodine? August 15, 2017People who enjoy eating seafood on a near-daily basis have a good chance of meeting their daily iodine needs because they will often be able to get 50% of more of those needs from the seafood alone. A single serving of dairy foods on the same day ...
- What do you think about a mostly vegetarian-plus-seafood meal plan?? August 15, 2017This approach to a meal plan is referred to in research studies as a "pesco-vegetarian" plan. You will also hear the term "pescarian" being used to refer to this type of plan, and you may also see the term being spelled as "pesca-vegetarian." All of ...
- Can lamb provide omega-3 fatty acids to your meals? August 15, 2017When we think about omega-3 fats and their availability from plants versus animals, we usually think about nuts and seeds on the plant side of things and fish on the animal side. But on the animal side of things, we should also think about grass-fed ...
- What are some of the health benefits of turnip greens? August 15, 2017Unlike some of their fellow cruciferous vegetables, turnip greens have not been the direct focus of most health-oriented research studies. However, turnip greens have sometimes been included in a longer list of cruciferous vegetables that have been ...
- What is the difference between green, black, and oolong tea? August 15, 2017Green tea is the least processed and thus provides the most antioxidant polyphenols, notably a catechin called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which is believed to be responsible for most of the health benefits linked to green tea. Green tea is ...
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