About Okra Okra is a wonderful and underutilized vegetable. The young pods are best and cook more quickly when still tender but fully mature pods work fine with just a little extra cooking time and moisture. Okra supplies a lot…
Vary Your Berries For Maximum Whole Food Health
Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are, in order, the four most popular berries in the US. They should be part of every healthy whole food diet. All four berry varieties provide high amounts of necessary vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, many…
What Do Bitter Greens Add To A Healthy Whole Food Diet?
Bitter greens add a lot of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory packed nutrition to any healthy whole food diet. The bitterness is caused by numerous phytontrients that repel insect pests, bacterial invaders and fungal growth but are good for us. Bitter greens…
Tomatoes Are The Taste Of Summer And Fall
Ask most people and they will tell you tomatoes are vegetables. Tomatoes are actually fruits, however, and are also technically berries. Which reminds me of a quote I heard a while back: “knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit,…
Roasted Spaghetti Squash Recipe
Spaghetti squash is a member of the hard, or winter, squash family which also includes acorn and butternut squash. This family of vegetables are good sources of carotenoids, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin. Though relatively high in starches, the complex…
Fusilli Pasta Salad Recipe
Fusilli pasta salad is good to make during the summer and fall when fresh local tomatoes, peppers and herbs are available. As with most of my recipes, this one is designed for easy substitutions. Feel absolutely free to use different…
Grapes – Good For Health
Grapes are a type of berry that have been cultivated for at least 8,000 years. A woody deciduous(meaning they drop their leaves during winter) vine, grapes are in the genus vitus. There are two main lineages of grapes, one native…
The Power Of Pineapples
The pineapple is a member of the bromeliad plant family. They originated and grew wild in the South American countries of Paraguay and Brazil. From there, pineapples were spread throughout the rest of South America and into the Caribbean and…
Eat Carrots For More Than Carotenoids
Most people think of orange when carrots are mentioned. This is because almost all commercially grown carrots world-wide are orange varieties. Most carrots did not become orange until after the 17th century, however, and it was politics in the Netherlands…
Pears Provide Powerful Nutrition
Pears are a tasty tree fruit that comes in many varieties. There is a pear with the shape, color, flavor, sweetness and texture to please almost everyone. This fruit has dietary fiber in abundance and is also a good source…