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 Broil Hotdogs in a Convection Oven

Convection ovens heat foods with hot air circulation, which promotes even and speedy cooking. The broiling feature applies heat from above, mimicking the cooking process of an upside down grill.

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How to Freeze Unblanched Carrots

Freezing is a quick and convenient method of food preservation you can use to save a large bunch of carrots. While many people recommend blanching carrots before you freeze them, this step isn't necessary. The purpose of blanching is to keep the carrots viable longer in the freezer.

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How to Pickle Beetroot in Malt Vinegar

Beetroot, informally shortened to beet, is a deep-red root vegetable often used in soups, stews, salads and pastas. It tastes sugary with a mild tartness, similar to a combination of sweet carrots and fresh spinach. Pickle beetroot in malt vinegar to enhance its flavor and preserve it for later use.

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Oatmeal Cookies

Non-Gluten Substitute for Oats in Oatmeal Cookies

Gluten-free oatmeal cookies are a tasty, sweet treat with high levels of dietary fiber. If you do not have oats available, or if your oats are contaminated with gluten, you can use a gluten-free substitute for the cookies.

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Does Oatmeal Fight Cancer?

Millions of living Americans have a history of cancer, according to The National Cancer Institute. Although research is not conclusive, there is evidence that eating oatmeal in your regular diet can help fight cancer.

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How to Avoid Crunchy Carrots in Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a sweet treat with a dense and moist consistency. For some, biting into a crunchy carrot in their slice of cake can ruin the indulgent experience and make the cake less appealing. To avoid crunchy carrots in carrot cake, you must soften them before adding them to the batter.

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How to Reduce Fullness

When you eat a large meal, there is about a 20-minute span between when your stomach is full and when your brain recognizes that fact. For 20 minutes, you can continue eating and not realize the feeling of fullness in your stomach. This can result in severe overeating with uncomfortable after effects.

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Raw Potato After Working Out

Snacking on a tasty, healthy food after a tough workout is a common method to resupply your body with nutrients and energy. Potatoes are starchy vegetables that provide an abundance of carbohydrates for your muscles to use as fuel.

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Barbeque Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Speeding Up the Process to Cook Pulled Pork

Pulled pork is typically a barbecue dish made with pork shoulder, also known as pork butt or Boston butt, over the course of 18 to 36 hours at minimal heat. The low- and slow-cooking method is required to break down the pork shoulder’s tough consistency and to tenderize and flavor the meat.

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Baking or Broiling Tender Beef Tips

Beef tips are cubes of steak taken from the tri-tip of a cow, a triangular cut between the animal’s hind leg and abdomen. Beef tips are typically low-priced as the cut is inherently tough. However, if you cook beef tips correctly, they become juicy and flavorful.

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Eating Oats During Pregnancy

When you are pregnant, eating a well-regulated and healthy diet greatly benefits your body. In turn, a healthy diet benefits your baby, because the nutrients you consume are your baby’s primary nutrition.

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Roast Beef

How to Arrange a Pot Roast in a Crock-Pot

A pot roast is a meat, typically beef, and vegetable dish prepared in one pot. A Crock-Pot makes cooking a pot roast simple as you can arrange the meat and vegetables and leave it to cook. The way you arrange a pot roast in a Crock-Pot will affect how evenly everything cooks and how the flavors meld.

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How to Cook a Boiled Steak

Steak can refer to a cut of beef, pork, game or buffalo that is typically served whole as the main course in a meal. Alternatively, you can cut steak up and use it in stews, salads, sandwiches and other meals.

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Kelp

How to Cook Dried Kelp

Kelp is a type of brown seaweed high in iodine, protein, calcium and iron. It is commonly sold dried, as kelp will rehydrate quickly with a number of cooking processes. You can either steam, saute or boil dried kelp to serve as a side dish or use in a recipe.

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Deep Fried Chicken

How to Cook Chicken Fully When Deep Frying

Poultry deep fryers, also known as turkey fryers, cook whole birds quickly and fully with little hassle. They produce crunchy, flavorful skin while ensuring the meat within remains moist and tender. Between 6 and 8 minutes per pound of meat is required to cook chicken fully when deep frying.

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How to Bake a Pork Cube Steak

Pork cube steak is a cut, typically from the loin of the pig, that has been pounded with a meat mallet. Some butcher shops use an electric meat mallet, as hand-held mallets can cause the meat to adopt a mushy consistency.

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How to Cook T-Bone Steaks in a Frying Pan

A T-bone steak contains a T-shaped bone in the center. It is made up of two different cuts, one on either side of the bone, the strip steak and the tenderloin. T-bone steak is tender and juicy with medium fat content that helps the meat retain flavor.

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How to Cook Frozen Tilapia on the Stove

Tilapia is a type of fish that is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and protein with a relatively low caloric content. However, according to the Science Daily website, you should select wild-caught tilapia, as farm-raised varieties contain unhealthy fats and low amounts of nutrients.

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The Best Way to Cook Steak Tips Indoors

Steak tips are small cuts of meat taken from the area where a cut of sirloin attaches to the bone. Steak tips are most commonly beef but they can also be taken from other animals, such as bison. Grilling is one of the most common methods of cooking steak tips, but you can cook them indoors with tasty results.

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