If you follow a vegan diet or have lactose intolerance, you need to avoid dairy products and foods containing them. Because "lactose" is also known as milk sugar, it is easy to confuse lactate as a dairy component as well.
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Discover the calorie content of Duplin Winery's award-winning Muscadine wines, including their best-selling sweet Hatteras Red. Learn about the antioxidant properties and nutritional facts for this North Carolina favorite.
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Crumbled blue cheese is a common ingredient in specialty salads and as a specialty topping on foods such as burgers and pizzas. It can be found in salads such as wedge salads with iceberg lettuce, crumbled bacon and ranch dressing, and in summer salads with ingredients such as pecans, walnuts, strawberries and lettuce.
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Plants such as coffee, tea and cacao contain caffeine. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system promoting wakefulness by competing for adenosine receptors. Adenosine is produced by the body to promote sleep and constrict blood vessels to allow more oxygen into the brain during sleep.
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The French word for perfect is parfait, and when you add whole grains and fruit to yogurt to create a delicious breakfast or snack treat, you are perfecting yogurt's already considerable health benefits. Typically, a yogurt parfait consists of layers of yogurt, grains such as granola or crushed gram crackers and fruit.
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For diabetics, management of blood sugar can be achieved through diet by understanding the glycemic index. The glycemic index represents the effect in blood sugar rise stimulated by a specific food (less than 10 is considered a low effect, and more than 20 is considered a high effect).
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The term phenol refers to a large group of chemical compounds found in plants. These chemicals make up the active substances in many plants and are responsible for controlling the activity of a range of enzymes and cell receptors, thus protecting the plant from bacterial and fungal infections and UV radiation damage.
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Moroccan oil from the desert shrub Argania spinosa was commercially developed as an ecologic/economic strategy.
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The fruits of date palms pack a nutritional punch. At the same time they contain insignificant amounts of fat and have no cholesterol. The most common dates in the United States are the Medjool and Deglet Noor varieties, which boast relatively equal nutritional values.
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Your body needs a well-balanced diet to stay healthy and energetic. But if you are an athlete, you need a diet that supports a higher level of physical activity by boosting your energy, immunity and muscle strength. A poor diet not only affects your athletic performance, but it can expose you to health complications.
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Calories are used to measure the amount of energy in food and are available on the Nutrition Facts label found on food products, as required by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The common and convenient practice of drinking water and other beverages from plastic bottles comes with downsides. You already know that buying a bottle of water costs more than filling a glass or reusable bottle at the tap. Using plastic drinking bottles also produces negative effects on health and the environment.
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Caffeine is a naturally occurring stimulant found in foods such as tea, coffee, cacao and kola nut. Primarily found in the seeds, leaves and the fruit of more than 60 plants, caffeine can be extracted and used in a concentrated form as a dietary supplement.
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Holy basil, Ocimum sanctum, is an ancient herb used in ayurvedic medicine. In India, it is known as tulsi, and is grown for its many perceived health benefits.
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Diabetes affects the way the body metabolizes sugar. Whether you have type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes, paying close attention to the amount of carbohydrates you're eating is critical.
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If you're looking to boost your protein intake on a vegetarian diet, keep in mind that the recommended dietary allowance for adult men is 56 grams of protein per day and 46 grams for women.
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Tasty olive oil is produced primarily in Mediterranean countries -- such as Italy, Spain and Greece -- and is consumed by people around the world. The flavor of olive oil depends on many factors, including climate, soil and how the olives are harvested and then pressed to produce the oil.
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Olive oil is derived from the fruit of olive trees. There are many types of olive oils, each with unique flavors and qualities. Virgin olive oil, for example, refers to olive oil that has not been synthetically treated. Common uses of olive oil include the base for salad dressings and dips for breads.
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Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the way the body metabolizes glucose. People with diabetes have to pay special attention to what they eat, since foods with carbohydrates can raise blood sugar levels.
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A vegetarian diet focuses on plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and grains. Many types of vegetarian diets exist and include lacto-vegetarian diets, in which lacto-vegetarians consume dairy products, and lacto-ovo vegetarians, who eat dairy and eggs.
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