Mushrooms are a nutritional powerhouse. With a significant amount of dietary fiber, low calories, and a good protein content (20-30% of dry matter) which includes most of the essential amino acids, mushooms also provide a nutritionally significant content of vitamins (B1, B2, B12, C, D and E) and trace minerals such as zinc or selenium. Mushrooms are […]
How to Avoid Organic Fraud
Step 1: Look for the USDA Organic Seal This might sound obvious, but there are many products out there (especially on Amazon) that claim to be organic but are not. The first step to ensuring something is truly organic is to look for the actual USDA seal. Without the seal, it’s not the real deal. […]
Italian Coffee May Decrease Prostate Cancer Risk
Three or more cups a day of Italian-style coffee can lower prostate cancer risk through an antitumor action confirmed also by laboratory experiments. The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, sheds light in a field still hotly debated to this day: the role of coffee, and specifically caffeine, in relation to prostate cancer. […]
Eating Legumes May Decrease Diabetes Risk
Legumes are a food group rich in B vitamins, contain different beneficial minerals (calcium, potassium and magnesium) and sizable amounts of fiber and are regarded as a low-glycemic index food, which means that blood glucose levels increase only slowly after consumption. Due to these unique nutritional qualities, eating legumes regularly can help improve human health. […]
Organic MicroGreens Recalled
Via FDA: ChloroFields of Lawrence, KS is recalling 20 cases of Asian Microgreens, because they have potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, anorganism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, […]
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