The number of total carbohydrates in a product includes both sugar and fiber. If you are trying to reduce your sugar intake in general, knowing what proportion of your carbohydrate intake is sugar allows you to track how you’re doing and adjust your eating habits, if necessary.
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Red cabbage, often called purple cabbage because it tends to look more purple than red, turns into a visually depressing mess if not cooked in the right conditions. This is due to chemical reactions with substances in the water and metal with which it comes in contact.
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Typical instructions for cooking rice on the stove include covering the rice after it boils. This steams the rice in addition to simmering.
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Lichen sclerosus can occur in both men and women and in both adults and children. While it tends to occur on the genitals, it also appears on non-genital areas of the body.
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Dark nonstick pans have become a very common sight in kitchens. While you still have to grease the pans in many cases, the nonstick coating makes it that much easier to extract the food from the pan.
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Pistachios pop open as they mature. The shell usually splits along a ridge, making opening the shell very simple. Sometimes you find shells that have split open only a little or worse, not at all.
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Distilled water has no minerals in it, which can make the water taste odd and possibly awful if you’ve never tried it before.
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That the same spice can have different names is nothing new; for example, cumin is sometimes called comino in areas such as Texas. Spices can also take different forms, such as onion powder and dehydrated onion bits.
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Taking a week off from doing any sort of intense activity or workout can actually help you do better in the long run. A full week off is basically a vacation for your body. Just as a week off from your job can help your mind recover and rest, so too can a week without the gym help your muscles.
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Lasagna is a convenient meal to make before the start of a busy week because you can prepare a large amount and sock away individual portions in the freezer for later cooking.
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High blood pressure, or hypertension, can be difficult to control, and treatments range from dietary changes to medications. Because dietary changes mean restricting what you eat, any new food, especially one that seems to have a major positive effect on high blood pressure, are welcome additions.
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Finding out that the nuts you have in the pantry have gone stale is disappointing, especially if you found out right as you were mixing up your favorite quick bread, or worse, if you found out by biting into a rancid-tasting cookie that you just baked.
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Oats are sneakier than they look. Not only can you use them in cereals, cookies and breads, but you can hide them in soups and smoothies.
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Chickpeas or garbanzo beans are lumpy, light tan beans that you can eat cold in salads, roasted as a crunchy snack or cooked in soups and stews. They are common in Indian, South American and Middle Eastern cuisine.
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Adzuki beans, also called aduki or azuki beans, are small, red, dry beans often used in Japanese and Chinese dishes. Their small size lets them cook more quickly than other beans, and they have a reputation for not causing quite as much of a gas problem as other beans.
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Soup makes for an economical meal, especially if you make a large batch and store portions for future meals. Various soups will keep for two or three days in the refrigerator and for over two months in the freezer, saving you the trouble of dirtying up another set of cookware.
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The colander insert you find along with pasta pots is supposed to make draining the pasta much easier than holding the pot over a sink. Instead of trying to simultaneously drain the water and stop the pasta from falling into the sink, all you have to do is lift up the colander insert.
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Sweetening foods can be tricky if you’re trying to clean up your diet. A pure, natural sugar such as pure maple syrup could seem like the perfect healthy substitute, and in fact, pure maple syrup does have something to offer in terms of nutrition.
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Sesame oil is fragrant and tasty, but it’s not just liquid fat that you pour over salad. While it is fat -- it doesn’t have any carbohydrates floating around in it -- the type of fat and the vitamin content in sesame oil might have a beneficial effect on your health.
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Kanten is a traditional Japanese food made from a type of seaweed. Kanten is called agar agar in the United States. It was originally made from one seaweed, Gelidium, and dried in snow, but the Tokyo Foundation notes that modern kanten is more often made from Gracilaria seaweed.
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