Nutrition

A wholesome breakfast should be the first meal of your day and yet it’s the one that contains the most…

People who suffer from kidney failure, especially in its chronic form, need to make dietary changes to stay healthy and…

Microbiota-accessible carbohydrates (MACs) are carbohydrates that are resistant to digestion by a host’s metabolism. In fact, various studies have linked…

Allergy to food additives is a problem that often goes unnoticed because people can confuse it with food intolerance. These…

Avitaminosis is the total absence of vitamins in a body. However, this is a very rare condition. Hypovitaminosis, a deficiency of vitamin D, is a lot more common. Vitamins are necessary nutrients for our bodies. However, it’s relatively easy not…

Currently, diet soda is replacing many sugary sodas and other drinks. Worrying about gaining weight leads many of us to opt for drinks lower in calories. However, can diet soda have the opposite effect and actually make you gain weight?…

Nutmeg is a spice from Indonesia that has medicinal properties. People use this spice often in gastronomy, as it enhances…

Conjugated linoleic acids are slightly modified essential fatty acids. This characteristic offers a series of health benefits to the body,…

Food processing is required to prevent the deterioration of many foods. After all, over time, foods undergo biochemical modifications and…

There’s a huge variety of new “fruit-flavored” drinks on the market nowadays. This is because everyone’s aware of the importance…

Vegetable oils can come from many different origins. Some of them are obtained from seeds and others from cereals or…

Vitamins are necessary nutrients for the body’s proper functioning. Overall, there are both fat-soluble or water-soluble vitamins, depending on where they dissolve, as the names suggest. Unlike some minerals, they act in very small amounts. In addition, the body is unable…

For many years, doctors have linked an excessive intake of salt and sugar to a wide variety of diseases. In…

There are many types of fats in foods. Some are healthy, while others are harmful. Hydrogenated fats are vegetable fats that can behave like animal fats in the body. In this regard, they’re also called trans fats, which change their…

You can’t always find buttermilk, and when you don’t, you can use whey or alternatives to whey to make it.…

If you read the food labels when you go shopping you’ll often see they’re either enriched or fortified or both.…

The food you eat conditions the health of your digestive system. If you eat a diet rich in sugar, poor quality fats, and refined flours, your odds of suffering from stomach problems are high. To prevent these problems, we’ve decided…

You’ve probably heard that you should eat five meals a day, either because it helps you lose weight, because it speeds up your metabolism, or because you have to eat every three hours so you don’t feel hungry. But is…

You’re on a diet. You’re probably depriving yourself of eating bread, rice, fruit, and other non-fattening carbohydrates. However, this isn’t…

It’s important to keep high cholesterol at bay even though it’s a normal part of your body’s cells. In fact,…