Category: Nutrition
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Sweet Potato – The Superfood with Multiple Benefits
Sweet on potatoes, but worried about the calories they contain? It’s time for you to try a healthier alternative. Sweet potatoes, best known as shakarkandi in India, don’t belong to the same tuberous family as the potato. However, their starchy and creamy texture makes them an ideal substitute for regular potatoes in most dishes. Recently…
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Spinach Benefits and Recipes: Why and what you need to be eating!
Spinach, a popular green leafy vegetable, is loaded with many nutrients. It is full of iron and has various vitamins and minerals. This cruciferous vegetable is scientifically known as Spinacia oleracea, and it originated in Persia. However, nowadays, it is available globally. The USA and China are the leading producers of spinach. This anti-cancerous veggie…
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Grapefruit – Why You Must Consume this Magical Fruit?
The grapefruit or Citrus Paradise is a hybrid fruit. It is also known as the forbidden fruit, Chakotra, in Hindi. It is a subtropical citrus fruit as opposed to its sweeter counterparts and contains a tart taste. It belongs to the family of oranges. Grapefruits are low in calories, sodium-free, cholesterol-free, gluten-free and fat-free, rich…
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Hemp Hearts: The Healthy Food for Your Heart
Hemp hearts are the soft inner part of hemp seeds that is appreciated well only after removing their hard shells. It has a mild, nutty flavour. It comes from cannabis sativus. But there are two main types of cannabis sativus that produce: 1. Drug products include hashish and marijuana, and several other compounds with psychoactive…
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Maple Syrup: The Antioxidant Ambrosia and its Benefits
Since time immemorial, maple syrup has been an inseparable companion of pancakes and desserts. No Spring is incomplete in Canada, Vermont, and specific parts of North America, the East Coast, and the Midwest, without collecting the raw maple sap and creating maple syrup. Tapping the Maple trees begin as early as January and the harvesters…