Articles tagged with vitamins
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Grape Hemp Crunch Green Drink
After our last two posts about real food I was inspired to make a delicious green drink using an ingredient I’ve never tried before: hemp. This is a yummy, delicious and nutritious blended green meal recipe to help you cleanse this spring. Hemp seed has a nutty taste and adds just the right amount of crunch [...]
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The Secret Health Benefits of Apples
There are a number of nutrient rich Superfoods that individuals can consume on a daily basis. Goji berries, quinoa, acai berries, amalaki fruit, camu camu berries, aloe vera, and spirulina are a few Superfoods individuals may consider exotic. However, there aren’t many people that would throw apples into that group. Apples may not be [...]
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Health Benefits of Paprika
As you may have guessed, paprika is made from dried and ground up sweet red peppers or chili peppers (capsicum annuum). It is traditionally used in Hungarian and South American cooking, but can now be found in a variety of international cuisines. It also makes for a very pretty garnish on some dishes. Paprika can range [...]
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Vegan Sun-Dried Tomato and Pesto Torta
Ingredients 1 prepared recipe of cashew cheese (use 2 cups of cashews and as little water as possible) 1/4 cup oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes 1 cup fresh basil leaves 1/4 cup lightly toasted pine nuts Divide cashew cheese into 3 equal parts. Line your container with plastic wrap, letting it hang over the sides of the bowl. Place one part cashew [...]
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Sweet Pots & Ginger Soup Recipe
It’s certainly getting colder but tonight’s dinner reminded me that winter has its perks. I love to warm my bones from a wintery chill with some delicious homemade soup; especially root vegetables. Super nutritious but even tastier, this sweet and slightly spicy sweet potato soup is brimming with nutrients. Sweet potatoes have been ranked the most nutrient dense [...]
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Oven-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Anise Seeds
I have a disclosure to make, I actually love Brussels sprouts. Still, many people despise them. People are afraid of them because they are often prepared in a horrible manner: boiled. Boiling is the wrong way to go when in comes to this vegetable. This is because they are technically a cruciferous vegetable; a cabbage vegetable. [...]
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Health Benefits of Honey
Nothing goes hand in hand with autumn like ‘comfort food’. The temperature begins to drop, our bodies begin to adjust to the chill and we seek warm, nourishing comfort food. Honey is often added to comfort food to enhance its taste. It is placed on cereal, crème of wheat, toast, bagels, pancakes, [...]
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Peachy Pink Summer Smoothie
The summer is winding down but so far grocery stores are still stocking watermelons and seasonal peaches! Here’s a pink smoothie that will certainly delight your taste buds. Watermelon is almost if not as refreshing and rehydrating as coconut water! If you’re looking for a very basic yet tasty and nutritious smoothie, try this one: Makes: 1 [...]
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Beautiful Salads: Calorieless Slimfast Snacks
Exotic Bean Salad Edamame Beans Celery (cut) tomatoes radish (cut) Bed of lettuce peas mango dressing beautiful purple flowers Caribbean Salad onions peppers of all colours tomatoes white onions Colourful Circular Salad chopped carrots chopped cucumber chopped tomatoes shredded lettuce chopped red onion chopped peppers
