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Whole Grains are some of the best health food!
Finding a good, reliable source of healthy whole grain bread is one way to get more easy healthy food in your diet. The bread needs to be full of a healthy balance of natural food ingredients. Bread adds more sodium to the average American’s diet than any other single food, so look for lower sodium. And that isn’t the only pitfall to finding a good healthy whole grain bread, since many breads are made with HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup).
Continue readingQuinoa is a seed about the size of a millet, produced from a plant related to spinach and Swiss chard. It’s available as a grain, flour, pasta and cereal. It’s nutritional quality is compared to that of dried whole milk by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Bottom line, quinoa has more protein in it than any other grain known.
Continue readingIf 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 […]
Continue readingOats contain vitamins, trace minerals, phytonutrients and fiber. They’re a great super health food! Oats come in more than one form, however. In fact, there are six basic types found at the grocery or health food store. Each kind has a different texture when prepared, different cooking times, and even some nutritional differences.
Continue readingList 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 they have 200mg of sodium, or less, per serving.
Continue readingCrackers often have misleading food labels. If you want to avoid trans fat, and the label says there is zero trans fat, you’re not home free. Sometimes the cracker is loaded with saturated fat. The trick is to look for crackers with no more than 1 gram of saturated fat, and no partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fats.
Continue readingIf 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. In other words, Ritz Whole Wheat Crackers are really made of more refined white flour than whole wheat.
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