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Natural Food Information on Quinoa
First off, I realized recently I’ve been pronouncing this incorrectly for years. I won’t even tell you how I was mangling it, but instead, here’s the correct pronunciation: keen – wa
Quinoa is a seed about the size of a millet, produced from a plant related to spinach and Swiss chard. Chenopodium [...]
Finding Whole Grain Bread
If you’ve read some of my past posts, like Whole Grains for Good Health, you know 100% whole grain bread is an important health food. In yesterday’s post I talked about fiber, and noted that whole grains have fiber.
Here’s a little video about finding the right bread for good health from the folks at Relish Magazine -
Oats, Groats, What’s The Difference?
As you may remember, oats are one of the Super Heroes of Health Foods.
They contain vitamin E, several B-vitamins, calcium, magnesium and potassium. Oats also have some of the trace minerals selenium, copper, zinc, iron and manganese. They’re full of good-for-you phytochemicals and have both soluble and insoluble fiber. Oats have been found to benefit [...]
Crackers Worth Eating
Okay, so I’ve been talking about all these crackers you DON”T want to eat, how about some that are healthier?
Following is a list of brands/types of crackers that have at least 3-grams of fiber per 30-gram (1 ounce) serving, and many are 100% whole grain. There are NO saturated or trans fats in any of these, and [...]
Cracker Quirks
When you’re in the grocery store deciding what crackers to buy, there’s a few more little quirks to watch out for. Stuff that sounds like it would make crackers good health food is once again not all it’s cracked up to be.
One important quirk to look for is the kind of fat in crackers. [...]
Whole Wheat Crackers
If you go to the store and buy a box of Ritz Whole Wheat Crackers, you’ve got real health food crackers made with all grain goodness, right?
Wrong! Remember, it has to say 100% Whole Wheat if you want whole grain. As it turns out, each 15-gram serving of crackers only has 5-grams of whole grain. [...]
Crackers Aren’t Always All They’re Cracked Up To Be
Used to be all you worried about with crackers was how much salt they had. If you picked a low-sodium or no-salt brand, you could feel pretty virtuous about eating healthier food.
Now, however, we’re looking for more whole grain foods and fiber, and eliminating the bad trans fats.
Once again, labels that are supposed to [...]