Cooking & Baking Tips: Healthy Fats, Grain Prep & Substitutes

Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.

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Cold Pressed Sesame Oil Benefits

Sesame oil, also known as gingelly or til oil, is obtained from sesame seeds. It plays a prominent role in Asian cuisine and also alternative medicine. Oil is expressed from sesame seeds either by simply crushing or toasting over heat. The first method provides cold-pressed sesame oil.

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How to Ferment Brown Rice

Fermenting rice before eating it removes phytic acid and introduces the beneficial gut bacteria which help extract more calories from what we eat. For both gains, brown rice is better than white rice because it still has the nutritious bran and germ since milling and processing only removes the indigestible husk.

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