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Nutrients are the constituents of food necessary to maintain optimum metabolic functions. Knowledge of right nutrition helps understand our daily requirements of calories, minerals, vitamins and phyto-nutrients.

For example, overweight or obesity puts you at risk of developing many diseases, especially coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, diabetes and cancer. Many of these conditions can be avoided OR at least post-poned by adopting healthy eating habits.

The main objectives of this blog is to make viewers aware of the nutrition facts in the food they eat by providing in depth profile of each food item available around them.

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Banana fruit nutrition facts and health benefits

Banana fruit or dessert banana is made of soft, easily digestible flesh with simple sugars like fructose and sucrose in addition to health benefiting anti-oxidants, important minerals and vitamins...Read on.

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Coconut nutrition facts and health benefits

Coconut is a fruit of cocos nucifera palm. Its sweet, energy rich kernel is the most indispensable ingredient in the whole of Asian and Pacific cuisine...Read on.

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Carrots nutrition facts and health benefits

Carrots are among the popular root vegetables, notably rich in health benefiting compounds such as beta-carotenes, vitamin-A, minerals and polyene anti-oxidant falcarinol...Read on.

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Scallions nutrition facts and health benefits

Scallions (Spring onions) are young tender greens of allium family vegetables. Crispy spring onions add subtle flavor of onions, besides imparting bright green color to the recipes...Read on.

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Green peas nutrition facts and health benefits

Sweet, succulent green peas or garden peas are winter season crop. The peas are indeed packed with several vital nutrients, plant-sterols, vitamin C, vitamin A and essential minerals such as iron, zinc...Read on

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Tamarind nutrition facts and health benefits

Delicately sweet and sour tamarind is rich in anti-oxidant agent tartaric acid. Apart from culinary uses, its pulp has been used as laxative...Read on.

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Apricot nutrition facts and health benefits

Apricot fruits are low in calories; but rich source of dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and packed with numerous health promoting phyto-chemicals; that helps prevent heart disease, reduce LDL cholesterol...Read on.

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Brazil nuts nutrition facts and health benefits

Brazil nuts are rich in mono-unsaturated fats and selenium. Both these compounds help prevent coronary artery disease by lowering LDL cholesterol levels in the body...Read on.

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Gooseberries nutrition facts and health benefits

Deliciously sweet, succulent English gooseberries are summer season berries in the Northern hemisphere. The berries are incredibly rich source of health-benefiting phytonutrients and antioxidants...Read on.

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Kale nutrition facts and health benefits

Kale is very versatile and nutritious green leafy vegetable. It is widely recognized as an incredibly nutritious leaf-vegetable since ancient Greek and Roman times for its low fat, no cholesterol but health benefiting anti-oxidant properties...Read on.

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