We all know how important it is to get your fruits and vegetables in. But while eating fruits seems an easy task, eating enough vegetables every day can be quite challenging.
This is often due to a lack of time in our daily lives. Preparing a healthy, nutritious meal is often substituted by a convenient takeaway dish.
One of the most underrated vegetables is seaweed. Okay, that’s a little cheeky of course, but seaweed is actually considered a sea vegetable.
Edible types of seaweed offer incredible and also unique health benefits that most of us are missing out on, or are otherwise not getting enough from.
Bitter melon, known as karela or bitter gourd, is a plant with quite a unique fruit with a great nutritional profile.
As the name suggests, bitter melon has a very bitter taste, which is one of the reasons it’s not the most popular fruit out there.
One of the most popular and perhaps most hyped up health foods in recent times is spirulina. Some say it’s a fad that will just disappear as time goes by, others say it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I usually don’t get too excited about any particular food item. Instead I prefer to focus on maintaining a healthy balanced diet, eating a wide variety of different foods that all offer their own unique sets of nutrients.
In this day and age where healthy nutrition is such a big industry, should we rely on dietary supplements and presumably healthy green powders to live a healthy life?
Or are these often heavily marketed products just a temporary fad? The Athletic Greens Ultimate Daily all-in-one green powder supplement is one of those green powders that has become popular in recent years.
Turmeric has long been a popular spice in Indian cuisine for various reasons. Curcumin is the active compound in turmeric that is thought to have medicinal properties and other benefits.
Are turmeric supplements worth it, or should we instead use natural turmeric root powder in our meals?
More than often when I use an apple in my smoothies, I actually blend the whole apple, including the core and seeds. I always assumed that the seeds – also called pips – hold additional nutrients that we shouldn’t let go to waste.
When I shared one of these smoothies with my neighbor and told her about the ingredients I used, she asked me whether it’s okay to eat apple seeds, because she assumed they were poisonous.
Are almonds fattening or do they support weight loss? The poor almond is often wrongfully associated with weight gain, but this almighty nut is quite a nutritious little snack that can actually assist us in losing weight.
Let’s get to know the almond a little bit better. How can this delicious help with weight loss and what other nutritional benefits can almonds offer?
Most of us eat eggs regularly and then throw out the egg shells not realizing that there’s actually quite some nutrition hidden in egg shells.
Since about a year ago I have been consuming egg shells on a regular basis after one of my neighbors randomly told me about her diet. At first I was very much surprised to hear that she was eating eggshells instead of just throwing them away because I never knew that egg shells were edible.
But as I learned more about it, I decided to try it for myself. I was already eating free range eggs every day, so I thought, why not try eating the shells too. Are eggshells good for us and how can we best eat them?