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.
From batteries to fertilizers, soaps and hairspray, there are more uses of the chemical potassium hydroxide than most people are aware. As a strong base it help neutralize acid, but it can also be used as a food thickener or stabilizer.
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Sodium nitrate is a colorless, odorless, crystalline compound, sometimes referred to as soda niter, nitrate of soda or Chile saltpeter. It is used for making potassium nitrate, fertilizers, explosives, in the production of high-strength glass, some limited pharmaceuticals and to preserve meats.
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Benzoic acid is found both naturally, in foods such as berries and milk products, and as an added preservative in processed foods such as baked goods, candy, chewing ice cream, jams, pickles and soft drinks. It is also found as a preservative in cosmetics and personal care items, such as mouthwash.
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Simple sugars and starches are part of a large group of compounds known as carbohydrates. Sugars are monosaccharides, or single units of specific molecules such as glucose, fructose, and mannose. Starches, on the other hand, are polysaccharides, long chains of chains of single sugar molecule subunits linked together.
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The Miracle Berry, Synsepalum dulcificum, is a fruit that possesses a strikingly unusual property: when the pulp from the red berries coat a person's tongue, everything they subsequently consume tastes sweet.
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Sodium acetate is the sodium salt of acetic acid. It has the chemical formula C2H3O2Na and is also known as sodium ethanoate. It is an inexpensive chemical that has a wide range of uses, including as a food additive and pickling agent or a laboratory reagent.
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Rosehip oil is extracted from the fruit seeds of the wild rose bush plant called Rosa affinis rubiginosa. Most rosehip oil extracts are derived from the wild plants grown in the southern Andean Mountains, in Chile and Argentina.
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Dicalcium phosphate is a calcium supplement commonly found in prepared breakfast cereals, in pharmaceuticals as an inert ingredient to bind tablets, and in toothpastes. However, too much dicalcium phosphate, or dicalcium phosphate taken in conjunction with other medications, can have negative consequences.
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Eggs are composed of a yellow yolk and translucent white fluid called albumen. They can be eaten raw, scrambled, poached, boiled, fried or as an ingredient in innumerable dishes. They help in coagulation, foaming, emulsification and browning. However, eggs—and in particular egg whites—can cause adverse side effects.
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Different types of breads are made from different types of flours. It is the type of flour that determines the quantity and quality of the carbohydrates in the resulting bread.
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Lecithin is also known as phosphatidylcholine. It is a fat, or lipid, material found in the membranes of all living cells and functions to regulate the entry and exit of cellular nutrients. While lecithin is found in many foods, either naturally or as a food additive, it is also sold as a dietary supplement.
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Glycerin is a highly unique compound that is used to both moisturize your skin and provide anti-freeze for your car. Glycerin is also known as glycerol, glycerine, propane-1, 2, 3-triol, or 1,2,3-propanetriol. This simple chemical compound has a variety of uses in manufacturing, research, and cosmetic products.
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You've probably encountered many products containing sodium metabisulfite without even realizing it. Sodium metabisulfite preserves food and is used extensively in commercial wine making. It is a bleaching agent in the textile, pulp and paper industries.
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Maintaining proper water chemistry in your pool is essential for health and safety. One of the most common pool chemicals is hydrocholoric acid, often known as muriatic acid. It is a very strong acid used to lower the pH or total alkalinity of the water. It can also be used as an acid washer for cleaning an empty pool.
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It is hard to believe that a product first isolated from ox bile in 1849 would play such an important role in the poultry industry. Choline--also known as vitamin B4 or, more formally, as 2-hydroxyethyl-trimethyl ammonium hydroxide--is a common dietary supplement in the livestock and poultry industries.
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Imagine rubbing petroleum byproducts on your baby's skin. That is exactly what you do every time you use baby oil. Baby oil and mineral oil are mixtures of petroleum distillation byproducts.
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Oxygen supplements can be life saving or a marketing scam. When provided in the form of supplementary oxygen gas, as in an emergency medical situation, oxygen supplementation is vital for survival.
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If you're shopping at Costco and want a treat, you can choose from Kirkland Signature frozen yogurt--Costco's store brand--or the soft-serve YoCream--yogurt served from their food courts.
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