Nutrients are the constituents of food necessary for maintaining optimum body metabolic functions. Knowledge of right nutrition helps understand our daily requirements of calories, minerals, vitamins, and phytonutrients.
For instance, overweight or obesity puts you at risk of developing many diseases, especially coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, diabetes, and cancer. The majority of these conditions can be avoided OR at least put off by adopting healthy eating habits.
The main objective of this blog is to guide viewers aware of the nutrition facts about the food they eat. The blog provides the in-depth profile of each food item available around you.
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Find out the sesame seeds nutrition profile here. These tiny, crunchy seeds widely recognized as healthy, low-glycemic foods. Calories-573 per 100 g, folates-97 μg (25% DV), pyridoxine-0.790 mg (61% DV), thiamin-0.791 mg (66% DV), potassium-468 mg (10% DV), copper-4.082 mg (453% DV), iron-14.55 mg (182% DV), manganese-2.460 mg (107% DV).
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Find out the amazing health benefits of Almonds. The kernels have good nutrient profile packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and numerous other health promoting constituents.
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Globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is one of the popular thistle vegetables of Mediterranean origin. Besides known since antiquity for its aphrodisiac and medicinal properties, the antioxidant compounds in the veggie carry valuable antioxidant and health promoting properties.
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Cinnamon spice is one of the highest antioxidant value foods in the plant kingdom. It contains many active principles that are known to have antioxidant, disease control, anti-diabetic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, carminative.
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Endive, popularly known as escarole, is a very low calorie green leafy vegetable. Nevertheless, it contains healthy nutrition profile, including soluble dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Read on.
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Fava beans (broad beans in the UK) are large, flattened, light green pods usually eaten shelled for their delicious irregularly oval beans. Fava is an excellent source of phytonutrients, protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
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Button mushroom is the most popular cultivated mushrooms. 100 g of buttonhead mushrooms carry 37% and 17% RDI of riboflavin and selenium respectively.
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Fresh turnips are one of the popular root vegetables, notably rich in vitamin-C. The taproot and its top greens are excellent source of vitamins such as folates, pyridoxine, and minerals like copper, manganese, calcium.
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Limes are highly acidic, small-sized citrus family fruits of sub-Himalayan origin. Both its tangy juicy segments, and aromatic peel have their own admirers in the culinary arena. Fruit lime holds rather more essential oils, vitamin-A, niacin, and copper than its close fellow lemon.
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Lemon nutrition is very low-calorific but rich in vitamins, essential oils and antioxidant compounds. This juicy citrus fruit composes several health-benefiting compounds such as ascorbic acid, citric acid, flavonoids antioxidants like naringin, and hesperetin.
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