Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.
The USDA recommends cooking any beef to a minimum temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit to kill food-borne bacteria, which can multiply rapidly at warm temperatures below this point. However, some beef enthusiasts think this is too much and that 130 degrees Fahrenheit is best for medium-rare beef.
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Flavored butters help add interest to a variety of dishes. You can add herbs, spices, vegetables and even fruits to regular butter to boost the flavor profile and make your food more exciting. Mango butter gives a dish a slightly tropical feel, and it pairs well with corn on the cob or roasted vegetables.
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Strawberries are a delicious and versatile fruit that can be used to make nutritious smoothies, decadent desserts, healthy low-calorie salads or be eaten straight out of the carton as a snack. Plus, strawberries provide you with antioxidants, folate, vitamin C, potassium and fiber.
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Typically associated with Thanksgiving Day stuffing, gizzards are a much more versatile ingredient than you might assume. Located in the upper portion of a bird's stomach, gizzards are responsible for grinding up ingested food. Consequently, they're tough and fibrous and not very flavorful on their own.
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Though commonly considered tuna -- and similar to a small tuna in appearance --, yellowtail tuna actually belong to the amberjack species. Yellowtail are fast-swimming predatory fish common in U.S. Pacific Ocean waters. The flesh is lighter than tuna, but yellowtail has a similar firm, meaty texture.
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Baking fish is a simple and straightforward cooking method. Once the fish has been scaled, cleaned and filleted, bake it in the oven according to your favorite recipe. When you don’t have a recipe to follow, determine oven temperature and cooking time based on a few factors.
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If you are wondering just how much of your vitamin or mineral supplement is actually broken down and absorbed by your body, you can conduct a simple experiment at home. Only your vitamin supplements and a few items from the kitchen are required.
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The pork butt steak is taken from the Boston butt area of the pig, which is on the front shoulder. In a 250 lb. pig, 8 percent, or 14.7 pounds, will typically be Boston butt, and 4.4 pounds of this will be blade steaks, also called pork butt steak. This is a thin steak, often cut about 1-inch thick.
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Living Essentials, the company that makes 5-Hour Energy, sold 350 million cans of the 2 oz. drink in 2009. 5-Hour Energy can be found at supermarkets, gas stations and office supply stores. TV ads for the drink are ubiquitous.
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Chicken -- the ubiquitous white meat -- is delicious, nutritious and easy to prepare. However, while there may be a flock of ways to cook a chicken, many recipes call for simply baking or boiling the bird. Both methods produce moist, tender meat with a slight variation in the flavor and nutritional makeup.
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The world has a vast array of rice varieties. Rice varies in texture, size, shape, aroma and stickiness. Rice is also available in a number of colors, including white, brown, red and deep purple. Deep purple rice gets its dark color from its outer coating of black bran.
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Mangetout, also called snow peas, get their name -- translated from French, it means "eat all" -- from their characteristic edible pods. Technically unripe, the pods and their undeveloped peas are eaten together, either raw and crunchy or cooked to soften and sweeten but still retain a little bite.
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Hailing from Japan, udon noodles typically contain just wheat flour, water and salt. These thick noodles are light on calories, but traditional refined versions are also short on nutrients. For better nutrition, choose whole-wheat noodles instead -- these come packed with vitamins and fiber.
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Roasted, sliced almonds offer a healthy and filling alternative to the many unhealthy snacks that might tempt you throughout the day. Try a handful of roasted sliced almonds as a quick snack or as a topper for a fresh garden salad, fruit or cereal.
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If you're pregnant and looking for a good snack or meal replacement, you might be wondering whether protein bars are safe for you to eat.
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The Three Olives Company was created in 1998. Three Olives Vodka is known for its 17 varieties of lactose-free, gluten free, vegan vodkas. Vodka fans know that a smooth, tasteful vodka is what makes or breaks a vodka cocktail or martini.
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Strong in flavor, garlic-stuffed olives are green olives that have been pitted and then stuffed with whole cloves of garlic before being preserved.
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Perhaps the most important aspect of an athlete’s diet may be his fluid intake. According to the University of Missouri Extension, an athlete may begin to experience dehydration after losing as little as 1 percent of his body weight.
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The use of nutritional supplements by athletes for the purpose of improving performance is common. Commercial promotion of nutritional supplements claims a variety of performance-enhancing results. Typically, nutritional supplements have 100 percent to 500 percent of the daily recommended intake.
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Beans are the faithful friend of frugal cooks the world over. Not only are they delicious, versatile and inexpensive, beans provide more protein per calorie than meat, with the added bonus of a healthy dose of fiber.
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