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Yes, you can get a truly nutritious take-out lunch. Photo courtesy WFM. If you don’t have time each day to prepare a super-healthy, grilled-veggie-intense brown-bag lunch like our friend Laura does, you may end up eating a lunch that contains lots of empty carbs and saturated fats: Burgers or burritos Pizza Sandwiches Chinese food…
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It’s the perfect smoothie for St. Patrick’s Day and a way to drink kale. This “Lean, Mean, Green Smoothie” is from chef David Venable at QVC. It’s a more healthful libation than green beer and Irish coffee. “This smoothie is packed with good-for-you fruits and vegetables, but tastes like a sweet treat,” says David. “The…
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Anglesey salt, sold here under the brand name Halen Mon, is evaporated from Welsh sea water. Note that the crystals are square, not round. Photo by River Soma | THE NIBBLE What’s the deal with salt, and why is the government trying to limit it in prepared foods? Everyone needs to eat a certain…
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Here’s another way to add “instant nutrition” to your foods, with no more effort than it takes to grind pepper. In this case, you’re grinding flaxseed. Why? This superfood adds noteworthy nutrition to food (see the health benefits below), so much so that a growing number of consumers have been clamoring for it. An estimated…
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[1] Can grains be functional foods? Yes: This rice mix adds high-nutrition chia seed to deliver more “functionality” with each bite (photo © RiceSelect). Functional foods are a hot topic. The first functional food we remember, long before the term existed, was Tropicana Orange Juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D. We quickly understood…
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