Do you follow a gluten-free diet? Why? Have you been tested for celiac disease or are you just self-diagnosing? I just read the results of a 2010 nationwide survey by the market research firm Packaged Facts. They were asking people their top reason for purchasing gluten-free foods? Amazingly it was not because of celiac disease [...]
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I often can be heard telling people to eat “color” for health. Mushrooms don’t have much in the way of color, so is it nutritionally healthy for you? Yes, in fact mushrooms provide a range of nutrients including many essential nutrients. These essential nutrients include copper, and the B vitamins – riboflavin, niacin, and pantothenic [...]
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At my last cooking class I was asked “how can you tell if the salmon you buy is truly wild caught”? The next evening on the evening news was a story about this very subject. It’s all about the color. Wild caught has a deep red color, farmed may have the deep red color but [...]
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Memorial Day can be considered the “unofficial” start of the backyard barbeque season when friends and family gather to share some food and fun. This is also the “unofficial” start to food-borne illness, which can be caused by time-temperature abuse, cross-contamination, and poor personal hygiene. So how do we enjoy our backyard barbeques without the fear [...]
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I recently had a conversation with a colleague regarding soybeans in the US are all genetically modified or GMO for short. Then I ran across an interesting article in my Vegetarian Times magazine regarding this very subject. I want to share the short article because it is actually good news: “About 77 percent of the [...]
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