SuperTracker SuperTracker is the free tool provided by the USDA to plan and track diet and exercise choices. The tool is geared to a pretty standard American diet – compared to a tool such as NutritionData, SuperTracker has a small range of food items and preparations in its database. When applicable, for a particular food…
Category: Nutriate Research
Food and body care research notes.
Whole Foods and Cooking Oil
Used Cooking Oil Fuels Whole Foods’ Commissary – Green Retail Decisions. Nice that Whole Foods is making good reuse of cooking oil; not so nice that Whole Foods and other local restaurants are still using so much cooking oil. And what measures has this Whole Foods facility taken to require less energy?
Choosing a Rollator (Walker)
Terminology walker = a four-legged device to assist a user with walking which has wheels only on the front two legs (and traditionally has tennis balls on the back two feet). Body weight is transferred to the walker through the user’s arms; the user holds onto to either end of the rail which wraps horizontally…
Ethiopian Recipes
(Refer to the Nutriate Ethiopian Recipes page for Injera, Ata Kilt, and Niter Kibbeh recipes.) Kik Alicha (Spiced Yellow Peas) 1 cup dried split yellow peas (green work in a pinch, but yellow are better) 3 cup filtered water, plus more as needed 1 T olive oil 1 medium yellow onion, finely minced 2 cloves…
Spices
Grains of Paradise mixed with Love in a Mist (Nigella seed)? Background graveolens: Meaning: Heavy scented, unpleasant smell; Pronunciation: grav-ee-OH-lens Ethiopian Berbere = spice mix that includes korarima, allspice, garlic, ginger, rue, and chili. Korarima (or korerima or kewrerima) = Aframomum corrorima or Ethiopian cardamom. In the ginger family. ‘False cardamom’ or cardamom powder. Spice…
Heavy Metals
Heavy metals persist in the environment and in the human body (stored in fat tissues) and are tied to a number of nervous disorders. Lead A study discussed in the 2012 September 21 Living on Earth connected children’s exposure to lead and mercury to ADHD. Adolescents with elevated blood levels of lead were 4 to…
Diarrhea
From the 2012 September 19 Savage Love column: “Semen contains prostaglandins — “a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body,” says Wiki — and some people experience explosive diarrhea shortly after ingesting the prostaglandins in semen.”
Recipe Notes
MLK Cafe in Oakland makes a gluten-free pizza crust with teff flour. Per article in the 2012 September 17 print edition of the Christian Science Monitor, selected locations of McDonald’s in India will go vegetarian with menu items such as the McAloo Tikki burger (a type of mashed potato sandwich), McCurry, and Pizza McPuff (a…
Thermochromic Dye
FoodEngineering September 2012. – page 22 Coors, Mountain Dew, and Hiball (energy drink manufacturer based in San Francisco) are using thermochromic dyes on their can labels. The dye changes color when the can temperature drops below 45 degrees F. The Coors and Hiball dye goes from clear to blue, and the Mountain Dew dye goes…
Coffee-infused cereals
Food Business News | New coffee-infused cereals debut in Hawaii. – 2012 Sept 13 Do we really need a breakfast cereal that provides 25% the caffeine of a cup of coffee? Is this cereal exclusively targeted at adults?