Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.
According to the University of California at Berkeley, boiled eggs and beans are high-quality proteins to include in your diet. A hard-boiled egg offers many benefits because it contains carotenoids, riboflavin, vitamin B12 and selenium. Beans are loaded with fiber, phytochemicals, antioxidants and vitamins.
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While there is no book or website promoting an official “Lentil Diet,” you may have seen it mentioned briefly in online weight-loss forums. This is a fad diet—one that encourages you to eat one food for a short period of time to spur quick weight loss, much like the grapefruit, cookie or cabbage soup diet.
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Corn oil is extracted from corn germ, bottled for consumer use in cooking and used commercially in margarine and fried snack foods, according to Soyatech. Corn oil has a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids with stability against oxidation.
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Popcorn is often touted as a low-calorie snack that fills you up before you can eat too much. Add something to it, though, such as oil for popping or flavoring, and you increase the calorie count, sometimes substantially.
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Made from dough leavened with yeast and rolled into a coil, honey buns are deep-fried then coated with a layer of sugary white icing. High in calories, honey buns contain significant amounts of both carbohydrates and fat.
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Turbinado, or raw sugar, is an alternative to table sugar, traditional brown sugar and artificial sweeteners. Turbinado is indeed sucrose, its name derived from the turbine it is spun within when it is made.
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Preservatives are substances, natural or synthetic, that help keep foods fresh looking and tasting longer and prevent them from rotting or deteriorating too quickly. Synthetic or artificial preservatives are used in processed and packaged foods sold in grocery and convenient stores for longer shelf life.
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If you're watching your weight and crave the sweet taste of a cola product, you might reach for a bottle of Coca-Cola Zero over its traditional counterpart, Coca-Cola. Launched in 2005, Coke Zero, as it's often called, is marketed as a calorie-free alternative that tastes notably similar to Coca-Cola.
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Honey bees collect nectar from flowers to make honey. The flavor, color and sweetness of honey vary depending on what flowers the bees visit. Most commercial honeys come from a wide range of flowers, but specialist honey is sometimes made from the nectar of just one flower.
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Molasses is a thick syrupy substance that is the by-product from the commercial processing of sugar cane and sugar beets into refined sugar. Molasses for human consumption most often comes from sugar cane.
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Rice comes in three grain sizes -- long, medium and short. It is most commonly consumed in its refined white form, which is sold after the outer husk and layer of bran have been removed. Brown rice is similarly relieved of its outer husk, but the bran is left intact, giving it a brown color and chewy texture.
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Stevia is a virtually noncaloric, natural food sweetener with a checkered past and a debated future.
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The human body works best when it is slightly alkaline, according to Elizabeth Lipski in the book "Digestive Wellness." In order to maintain this pH, Lipski recommends eating 60 percent foods that contribute to alkalinity and 40 percent foods that contribute to acidity. Urine reflects the body's pH.
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Diet Rite Cola is a zero-calorie soft drink made by the Royal Crown or RC Cola Company. Diet Rite was introduced in 1958 as the first diet soda. Diet Rite is described as a cola for people pursuing a healthier lifestyle as it contains no sodium, no caffeine and has no calories.
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Starbucks' Frappuccinos are a trademarked beverage containing a blend of ice and milk mixed with each customer's preferred flavored syrup and a sweetened regular or light base. The Vanilla Bean Creme Frappuccino belongs to the line of coffee-free Frappuccinos.
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Sugar is found in a variety of foods, some of which you may not have even considered. Found in everything from breakfast cereal to bread, refined sugar can add a lot of calories and carbohydrates into your diet if you aren't careful.
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If you are looking for a low-calorie snack to satisfy your sweet tooth, you may consider reaching for a Rice Krispies Treat. Kellogg’s suggests that this snack is a lower-fat alternative to high-calorie foods such as chips, cookies and pastries.
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Americans eat over 355 extra calories a day from added sugar, says the American Heart Association. One gram of sugar contains 3.87 calories.
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Olive oil producers and nutritionists tout the health benefits of olive oil, yet the strong taste and thick texture make it less desirable for some taste buds.
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Sometimes you just have to fry your food, and cold-pressed grape seed oil can make a nice alternative to chemically pressed vegetable oils. With a high smoke-point and a mild flavor, it can be used for just about any type of fried dish.
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