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4 RED MEATS Nutritious red meats are valuable for their protein, iron, zinc and vitamin B12. In Product Review, we check out how four of these meats provide the key nutrients per serving so you can compare farmed animals with game. We follow the Australian Dietary Guidelines for servings – a serving of red meat …
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DRIED FRUITS: 5 FIBRE BOOSTERS Eating dried fruit is a great snack or natural sweetener in porridge oats or muesli. It not only helps you get those 2 plus serves of fruit a day, it adds to your intake of fibre, antioxidants, prebiotics, vitamins and minerals. Drying fruit keeps bacteria at bay by reducing water …
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5 DRINKS FOR THE DESIGNATED DRIVER Drinking lubricates most social functions. It’s one of life’s pleasures. Plain water is unquestionably the best option, but it’s rarely the first choice when drinking socially with family, friends and colleagues. Mineral water (still or sparkling) with ice and a slice of lemon is socially more acceptable and contains …
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FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EDIBLE SEAWEEDS Two books about edible seaweeds recently arrived on the editor’s desk. Ocean Greens by Lisette Kreischer and Marcel Schuttelaar (The Experiment) explores the world of edible seaweed and sea vegetables and includes 50 vegan recipes. Bren Smith’s Eat Like a Fish (Murdoch Books) is more of …
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7 LOW CARB GOOD CARBS We dipped into our book, The Good Carbs Cookbook, to share 7 low carb good carbs to put on the dinner plate. BEETROOT. Its vibrant colours come from its betalain pigments – betacyanin in red purple beetroots, betaxanthin in golden and orange beets. A medium raw beetroot (about 90g or …
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BURGERS Since everyone seems to be talking (and eating) burgers, we thought it would be interesting to compare a regular lean beef patty that just contains lean beef, with a meatless patty (we chose the top-seller Beyond Meat Beyond Burger™) and a homemade chickpea patty (the recipe is from The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook). The …
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GOOD CARBS FOR GOOD PROTEIN Using the True Health Initiatives modernised protein quality metric, we chose a couple of the top-ranking plant sources of protein they mention in their paper (brown rice and chickpeas both get a 5 out of 6) that are good for our overall health, and good for the planet. We also …
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5-STAR FOODS BOOSTED WITH B12 We chose three B12 fortified foods for Product Review – So Good Soy Milk (Sanitarium), Vegie Delights Savoury Mince (Life Health Foods), and Wellness Road Nutritional Yeast Flakes (Coles). These 5-star products set the standard for what you should be looking for on the nutrition facts panel of similar B12-fortified …
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THE FREE-FROM-DAIRY MILK BAR If you check out the ingredient list on a carton of cow’s milk, there’s one ingredient: milk (or low-fat milk). That’s because it’s a whole food that’s minimally processed (pasteurised and possibly homogenised). Plant “milks” on the other hand tend to have a longish list of ingredients because they are processed …
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WITH OR WITHOUT SUGAR? WHAT’S IN CHOCOLATE? People with diabetes don’t need to eat low or reduced-sugar chocolates to avoid high BGLs provided they don’t eat too much. However, alternatively sweetened chocolates usually do provide fewer calories, an advantage if you are trying to lose weight. “Chocolate is a supremely pleasurable ‘sometimes food’ to be …
