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.

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How to Cook With Vegetable Glycerin

A sweet, slippery liquid, glycerin forms the backbone of fat and oil molecules. You can get food-grade glycerin, a byproduct of soap making, in bottles at drugstores, health-oriented grocery stores or the baking sections of supermarkets.

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How to Cook With Garbanzo Bean Flour

Garbanzo bean flour, as the name makes plain, comes from garbanzo beans or chickpeas and also goes by the names chickpea flour or gram flour. Unroasted garbanzo bean flour also is known as besan, besum or chana flour and forms a cornerstone of Indian, Pakistani and Greek baking.

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