Farming Farmacology: What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health and Healing by Daphne Miller tells how to apply lessons learned from sustainable farming in improving personal health. Minimally Processed Food Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson offers a guide to optimize nutrition (and taste) when selecting (whole) foods to purchase and…
Category: Nutriate Research
Food and body care research notes.
LesserEvil Chia Crisps
LesserEvil Brand Snack Co. introduces Chia Crisps The initial four flavors are Southern Barbeque, Crunchy Dill Pickle, Jalapeno White Cheddar, and Feta and Black Olive. Though the product is billed as Chia Crisps, more accurately it is a baked bean and rice chip with a bit of chia seed. In comparison to the very similar…
Travel Books
General Fodor’s Fodor’s How to Pack Fodor’s How to Pack by Laurel Cardone, copyright 1997 would be of more value if it better reflected the exigencies of post 9/11 travel. Carry-on luggage is much more of a pain given the limitations on carrying liquids and gels, the often much longer lines at security and longer…
Tofu Misozuke
Tofu Misozuke – something new to try! Rau Om’s Amazing, Cheese-Like Tofu Misozuke | What the Fork | East Bay Food and Restaurant News. Rau Om site – including their 2011 version of the recipe. And the Rau Om recipe with lots of comments on the Recipe Renovator site. And the Post Punk Kitchen Forum…
Taste
November eNews: Be Part of a Moving Experience. Did You Know? The concept of a tongue map showing distinct areas specializing in sour, sweet, bitter, and salty taste stems from the mistranslation of a paper written by researcher D. P. Hanig in 1901. Hanig’s original tongue map showed that all areas were sensitive to the…
Teas
Pukka Tea Pukka love: okay, okay but pretty weak second soak Pukka relax: ennh, not good second soak Pukka refresh: ennh, not good second soak
Kashi® Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies
Kashi : Our food : Kashi® Cookies, Chocolate Almond Butter. Kashi (an independently operated subsidiary of Kellogg Company; based in La Jolla, California) makes a number of packaged food products including breakfast cereal and grain bars. In April 2012 Kashi received bad publicity over its use of GMO ingredients, most notably soy. In parallel with…
Ingredients to Avoid
Refer to Product and Vendor Selection Criteria. various 2016 An article in Food Processing on 2016 March 22 lists five controversial ingredients that some processors are avoiding – but which the US FDA (as this time still) considers safe. brominated vegetable oil (BVO) BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) nitrites and nitrates aspartame high-fructose…
Vitamin D
Article on Vitamin D and using full spectrum lighting to combat seasonal depression and sunlight to combat problems associated with inadequate Vitamin D absorption. Vitamin D-rich foods: Per CNP, exposing prepped / chopped raw mushrooms to 15 minutes of sunlight before cooking in order to greatly increases the cooked mushrooms’ Vitamin D content. (Exposure to…
Dental Care
Toothpaste Sensitivities Symptoms Receding gums Hot / cold sensitivities Mucous and congestion Mouth ulcers Diarrhea ameliorate http://www.jcadonline.com/2487/toothpaste-allergy-diagnosis-and-management/ x References Diary of a reluctant allergy sufferer: Toothpaste free xx