Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

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.

Half rack barbecue rib platter with french fries

How to Make Ribs in a Slow Cooker in 4 Hours

Spare ribs cook in a slow cooker with moist heat for tender meat that you can cut with a fork. Slow-cooker ribs require little prep time, and do not heat up the house like oven-cooked ribs.

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Closeup of grilled beef steak with vegetables

How to Cook a Fillet on a Foreman

The Foreman grill is a countertop grill that cooks from the top and the bottom at the same time, making it a quick process to cook a steak fillet. A 1-inch thick fillet cooks in 7 to 12 minutes, depending on the doneness you prefer. A Foreman countertop grill lets you cook a quick meal at home after a busy day.

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Drying Bottle gourd for keep the seed.

Bottle Gourd Nutritional Content

Bottle gourd, also called calabash, is a vine plant that produces an hourglass-shaped fruit similar to a summer squash. The gourd has a high water content, which makes the fruit low in calories.

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dredging meat in flour

How To Make Breading Stick to a Baked Chicken

Making the bread coating stick to baked chicken is not as difficult as you may think. The trick to making the breading stick is to dry the surface of the chicken, and then create a glue-like surface with a flour and egg blend.

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How to Cook Crab Cakes in a Frying Pan

Frying crab cakes in a pan is the best method of cooking this tasty dish. The size of the cakes varies from about 1-inch-diameter cakes for an appetizer, to 3 inches wide for a main dish. Cooking the cakes is not difficult, as long as there is enough moisture to hold them together so they do not crumble when flipping.

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Fall festival roast turkey

How to Stuff a Turkey With Oranges, Lemons & Limes

Change the way you stuff a turkey by using oranges, lemon and limes for a moist, delicately flavored bird. You will save calories and fat grams by not using traditional stuffing, which is loaded with butter that soaks into the meat.

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Pan fried fish fillets

How to Bake Haddock

Haddock is a white fish, similar to cod, that bakes quickly in the oven for a healthier option to fried fish fillets. Haddock and cod also go by the term scrod in some northeastern areas of the United States. A fresh haddock fillet has a translucent color and firm texture that holds together.

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Vegetable

Is Bitter Melon Poisonous?

Bitter melon is a tropical fruit that goes by several names, including bitter gourd, bitter cucumber and wild cucumber. According to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, clinical studies on the plant suggest that it may be effective as a diabetes and cancer treatment.

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three golden delicious apples

Calories in a Yellow Apple

Yellow apples are not as common as red and green varieties; however, they have the same nutritional value and calories. Apples contain natural sugar and fiber, which makes them a good snack food. Common yellow apple varieties include Golden Delicious, Pippin and Crispin.

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Sushi

Bonefish Restaurant Nutrition Guide

The first Bonefish Restaurant opened in January 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The goal was to offer a dining experience that takes the mystery and uncertainty out of eating fish.

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colored hard candies

How Many Calories Are in Lifesaver Candies?

Life Savers, manufactured by Wrigley Company, are a sweet treat that has been around since 1912. There are over 40 flavors of the traditional hard candy with the first flavor being Pep-O-Mint. The hole-in-the-center candies are available in low-calorie sugar-free, traditional, and higher calorie gummy varieties.

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Hot Baked Potato

How to Freeze Twice-Baked Potatoes

Potatoes do not preserve well when left whole, but you can turn them into twice-baked potatoes and place them in the freezer for up to three months. This method of preserving works well for extra potatoes from a plentiful garden harvest or a dinner for which you baked too many potatoes.

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Delicious Chocolate Muffins

How Do I Make Mini Puff Pastry Shells?

Puff pastry is pre-made flaky pastry dough that you can cut into pieces to form into mini-shells for appetizers or desserts. Making the pastry into shells lets you create individual delicacies that are easy to both serve and eat.

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Salmon Fillet

How to Check If Salmon Is Cooked?

The hardest part of cooking a salmon fillet is figuring out how to determine whether the fillet is fully cooked or not. The University of Alaska Fairbanks lists the visual indicator of salmon that no longer looks translucent and becomes a cloudy, pink color as ready to eat.

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