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.

Diet and Nutrition

What Is Calcium Chloride Used for in Food?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Michael Baker

If healthy eating habits are your goal, you're wise to read labels and monitor additives used in factory-made foods that dominate your grocery store aisles.

What Is Ash in Food?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Michael Baker

If you have started paying more attention to the nutrient content of your food, you might notice that "ash" frequently turns up as a component in most foods.

Michael Baker has worked as a full-time journalist since 2002 and currently serves as editor for several travel-industry trade publications in New York. He previously was a business reporter for "The Press of Atlantic City" in New Jersey and "The [Brazoria County] Facts" in Freeport, Texas. Baker holds a Master of Science in journalism from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.