Legume family is made up of oil seed legumes (soybeans, peanuts), fresh legumes (beans, peas) and pulses (lentils, chickpeas, dry common beans). This article is a quick round up on the common dry beans. The earliest grown beans are about 9000 years old and thought …
If there is one nutrient that has gained lot of attention in research and practice over the last few decades, it is Vitamin D. Vitamin D is a micronutrient that we mostly produce (> 50%) with our natural connection with sunlight, through a series of …
Coffee is the second most popular drink across the world, extracted from the ripe berries of plants from family Rubiaceae. Although the exact origins are not known, it is thought to have originated in Ethiopia and slowly spread across the world. In the 1700s, coffee …
Milk has been a part of human history for ages, to a point where we even named our galaxy the ‘milky way’. In the 1800s, due to lack of pasteurization, thousands of children used to die drinking impure milk, and during those times milk was …
Millets are a type of grains that have been in existence since at least 3500 BC, but started to gain the limelight very recently for all the right reasons. These small grains, the 6th cereal crop in terms of world agricultural production, are abundant sources …
Eight years ago, I remember telling my then 3 year old an imaginary tale about the super food broccoli making superman strong when he ate it, in a desperate attempt to get that one broccoli floret into his mouth. Thankfully, that worked and I did …
My kitchen truth- ” What is in your pantry will eventually end up in your body”. Refresh the pantry , restock with healthy ingredients to rejuvenate your plate. This is my checklist, that I use to ensure my pantry has the ingredients that I believe …
The definition of biological immunity refers to ability to fight or resist an infection or toxin. Some of it comes with in, and is called innate immunity. A part of immunity develops as the body is exposed to multiple pathogens either by illness or vaccines, …
Human civilization is millions of years old. The first human foods were seafood, tubers, wild fruits/vegetables, and meat/marrow of land mammals. Interestingly, our history of grains, particularly domestication of grains, does not go back more than 11,000 years (www.foodtimeline.org) when the hunter-gatherer human became a …
What does it mean when your food has a label that say ‘organic’? The dictionary states organic means of, relating to, or derived from living organisms, which is exactly what food is. It is puzzling that now, we actually categorize food in a way that is …