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.

Scoop of chocolate whey isolate protein

How to Mix Whey & Casein

Whey and casein protein powders contain essential amino acids, which are quickly absorbed when compared to the essential amino acids in the foods you eat. Protein shakes made with these powders are best consumed immediately before and after your workouts, especially with resistance training sessions.

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High Calorie & Low Sodium Foods

A sedentary lifestyle and easy access to convenience foods could result in the consumption of an excessive amount of salt. This could be detrimental to your health, particularly if you are predisposed to high blood pressure.

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Are Pancakes Fattening?

Eating three large pancakes with butter, syrup and whipped cream can make you fat, especially if you eat over 3,500 calories in a day and are sedentary. Sitting down to a breakfast of two medium pancakes and a tablespoon of syrup after a workout refuels your muscles without enlarging the size of your fat cells.

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How to Make Soup From a Soup Bone

Cooked or raw soup bones can enhance the flavor of your any soup. Once you have carved out most of the meat from your turkey, lamb, chicken or ham, save the bones to make a hearty soup with fresh vegetables and broth. Adding cooked rice or uncooked, broken spaghetti noodles provides filler in your soup.

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How to Bake a Bundt Cake from a Boxed Cake Mix

Bundt cakes make quite an appealing presentation on a dessert or kitchen table due to their simplicity and beautiful shape. Your cake mix may be homemade or from a box. Pound cake batters do especially well when baked in a bundt pan.

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How to Cook Coconut Meat

The meat from a mature coconut is used primarily in baked goods or combined with uncooked, finely chopped poultry, meat or shrimp. While coconut milk, made by mixing water with freshly shredded coconut meat, is prized for savory dishes, the used meat is usually discarded.

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How to Bake Turkey Tails

Turkey tails are full of fat and full of flavor, so make them extra crispy when baking in the oven. These little gems are sold as turkey tail packages at many grocery stores. Marinating the tails before you bake them makes the bundles of fat even more flavorful.

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How to Eat a Mango Seed

Mangoes are rich in vitamins C and A and are excellent in fruit smoothies and protein shakes, especially if you freeze the mango ahead of time. You can certainly suck, slurp and eat the fruit and fiber right off a mango seed without tearing into the seed and digesting it.

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Frosting the cake

How to Soften Cake Icing

Cake icing is excellent for piped or drizzled cake decorations, but you may have to soften the icing to use it as a crumb coat or if you need it to flow more quickly from your decorating bag.

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