Category:Food And Drinks

Salt

Salt is an essential element in the diet of all living things --humans, animals, and even many plants. Critical to life, it is made up of 40% sodium and 60% chlorine. With over 14,000 known uses, salt is an integral part of a person's diet. The human body cannot exist without salt. Salt has been worshipped; salt has been used as money. Salt was once worth its weight in gold. Homer, who lived about 550 B.C., called salt “divine”. Plato said salt was “dear to the Gods’. Salt has been the cause of many wars during the ancient and the medieval periods. The earliest known food additive, salt brings out natural flavors and makes foods palatable.

Salt in the form of Sodium plays an important role in the regulation of muscle contraction, fluid balance and nerve impulses in the human body and is essential for overall good health. More...

Junk Food

Everyone loves hamburgers, pizzas, chips and sweets even though it is obvious that they are high in fat, salt and/or sugar. Condemned as nutritionally bankrupt, junk foods continue to rule for they are well marketed. Clever advertising has created an association of having a good time with pizzas, colas and burgers.

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This section contains unbiased, carefully researched, condensed information about ingredients, methodologies, equipment, techniques and recipes, and also provides links to the latest news. It is pledged to help us make informed decisions about what we put inside our bodies.

The sustaining core of this section is the belief that how we eat and what we eat is at the heart of who we are…. as individuals, as families and as communities.

We also believe that while food is a necessity for survival, it is also a metaphor replete with layers of meaning- food is love, joy, memories, comfort and refuge. Its consumption involves all five senses and impacts our well-being in a manner that is unique. We hope that this section will help us understand food and drink as health and happiness

Bread

• Buy bread which lists wholemeal flour as the first and the major ingredient.
• A good whole grain bread loaf is heavier, firmer and chewier than a loaf made of refined flour.
• The lesser ingredients in the bread, the healthier it is and the smaller its carbon footprint.
• Buy stone ground bread. If slow-speed steel hammer-mills have been used in the place of stones, they are as effective and listed on the label as “stone-ground”.
• If bread is made entirely with l00% stone-ground whole grains, it will state so on the label.
• Choose a product with a minimum of chemicals listed on the label.
• If caramelized sugar or colourant is mentioned amongst the ingredients, then it is not true brown bread but coloured white bread. More....