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Super Nutritious Bok Choy (Pak Choi)
Choi can be cooked alone or combined with other veggies like peppers, onions, edamame or snow peas. This super nutritious, Asian, cruciferous vegetable deserves a spot both in the garden and on your plate.
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January is National Oatmeal Month
Grown extensively in Europe, the seeds eventually made their way to the New World and, today, oats are the third most important grain grown in the United States.But 95% of this crop is used for livestock feed, not human food.Oat plants are annual grasses...
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Canola: Where Does it Come From?
Doubters hush up, because the net change in the carbon costs from biofuels, including canola and rapeseed oil, show that it's a win-win. Red, greasy pizza sauce on a white, cotton T-shirt?
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El Segundo
Nuts About Pistachios
Other cultivars include' and three patented and released to the industry by the University of California in 2005:Pistachio trees take 5 to 6 years before they begin to bear nuts, and may take as long as 15 to 16 years for full bearing capacity, according...
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El Segundo
Herb Pastas: Making Healthy Homemade Herb Noodles
Cooked or pureed herbs, greens, fruits, and vegetables, yogurt, kefir, coconut milk, and ground sprouts, can also be added to the liquid portion of your pasta dough mix. George Mateljan Foundation.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=84 .
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El Segundo
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Discover gardening information about watercress, and why scientists find this nutrient-rich herb so fascinating.Gardeners, chefs and home cooks enjoy growing and cooking with them both.or more information about watercress, you may come across thesesucculent...
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El Segundo
Have you had your (nutritious) beans today? Try Lentils!
Varieties range in colors from red and yellow to black. One variety of yellow "lentils," Chana, is in fact made from the kernels of chickpeas.[1] The small lentils generally have more flavor and are preferred in the Middle East.
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Can I Grow My Own Yerba Mate?
Yerba-mate seeds and plants aren't normally found at local garden centers, but sometimes a search in a local herbal medicine shop yields results. This herb is primarily used to make a stimulating tea -- and is of economic and cultural importance in the...
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Santa Monica
The Pomegranate - Healthy, Historical and Heavenly in Cooking
That's where all the fiber is. Some people spit the seeds, I chew them up - it's just a matter of personal preference. When we moved to Washington, DC in my early teens, it was into an all Jewish neighborhood.
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The Amazing All-Purpose Pine Needle Tea
The following list is only a sampling of the research being examined.Documents contained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, section PubMed.gov., pertaining to pine needle extract, or tea, and the research...
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El Segundo
How Fermentation Techniques Preserve Food
We are still discovering more uses and benefits of this natural process today.Fermented Frutis and Vegetables: A Global Perspective. Battcock & Azam-Ali. This can be done by adding a small sampling from a previous batch of converted foods, or with a commercially...
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El Segundo
Check out CHIA - Super Seed Nutrition
The best sources include: kippered herring, salmon, sardines, rainbow trout, steelhead trout, mussels and halibut. This may help curb overeating and decrease obesity risk.Plant foods, including chia, contain natural sterols.
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El Segundo
Rabbits and Diet- Feeding your Truly Vegan Pet Properly
A more interesting question is why to pet stores sell pellet mixes with all sorts of grains, fruiits and nuts in them when they actually do know those are not good for rabbits? This sort of unecessary and inadvisable addition to a bag of food is done...
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El Segundo
Growing Asparagus
We stored ours in box or bag with peat moss. When you areready to plant, carefully separate the roots. For small areas good old-fashioned hand weeding or tilling does a good job.or Pyrenees Star of Bethlehem), which is not related to asparagus, as its...
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El Segundo
Uncommon Nutrition from the Common Fig ~
Growing fig trees is both easy and rewarding. He says, "A beginner can check for ripeness by gently squeezing them."in the photo against the stones next to the ampelopsisaspects - sweet, uncontaminated by insect larvae," states dpmichael, who ate the...
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El Segundo
Check out CHIA - an Indigenous Food
Foods made with chia can also be found online and in natural foods markets. Chias bland flavor and tiny size allows for great versatility and ease of incorporation into most foods.The natural antioxidants found in chia seeds allow them to be stored at...
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El Segundo
Check out CHIA - a Super Salvia
Golden chia growswell in the west from California to Utah and south to Northern Mexico.Thanks to a health conscious gift shop owner at Long Beach Island, NJ many years ago, I discovered chia seeds as food.
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El Segundo
Superfruit ~ Acai Berry,
And Nestle USA have engaged in an exclusive joint licensing agreement for a line of healthy beverages, including acai products, under the JambaNestle recently announced on their website that the product line, including smoothies and juices, is now available...
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El Segundo
Eat your greens! Dandelions are a dandy way to get super nutrition in a variety of tasty ways..
Plate your pasta and right before serving, stir in as much goat cheese as you like - pour over the pasta immediately - toss and enjoy!Please give dandelion greens a try. Either mince or use a garlic press to add several cloves ofand let simmer for 10...
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El Segundo
What\'s in Your Acifidity Bag? Asafoetida is in Mine!
The potent powder is best fried in butter (ghee) to dissipate the smell before adding the remaining ingredients to the pot. The storage of asafoetida requires an airtight container enclosed in a sealable bag (or two) to prevent the smell from contaminating...
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El Segundo
Herbal Remedies for Cold & Flu Symptoms: What\'s For Dinner?
Roche laboratories. Jun 1999.scar.utoronto.ca/~burton/foodcourse/spices.html. You can quickly glance through the list and determine which of your favorite dinner recipes include the most powerful herbs and spices to allow you to fight off colds and flu.Check...
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Celebrate National Nutrition Month by Gardening with Children
"Kids learn to identify andtaste a variety of fresh, seasonal food that they grow and why these foods are good for their bodies," according to Stacey Antine, MS, RD and CEO of HealthBarn USA- a nutrition education program in North Jersey, which features...
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El Segundo
Kids Eat Right with Colorful Gardens
All rights reserved.School Gardens as a Strategy for Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption The real reason eating right from color is so important is because different color foods contain different nutrients.
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El Segundo
Celebrate National Nutrition Month!
Tilling, digging new beds, hammering in stakes, building pergolas, refilling bird feeders, mowing the lawn, trimming hedges, laying stone or brick for paths and borders, dragging around hoses, moving bags of mulch and dirt, weeding, hauling a wheelbarrow...
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El Segundo
Superfruit ~ Goji Berry,
Be aware that this is a relatively new product here in the western world, and more studies and reliable data will become available to consumers in due time. There are many untrue health claims and myths that surround this berry, as well as many trueAt...
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El Segundo
Kiwifruit: By Any Other Name, It\'s still Delicious and Nutritious
Copyright © GNU Free Documentation License. According to the California Kiwifruit Commission, California began producing Kiwifruit in the late 1960s. Did you know that Kiwi is a relatively new name for this nutrient-dense fruit?
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