Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Cooking with Gluten Free Flours: Part 2
Following on from my article Cooking with Gluten Free Flours: Part 1, here are another three popular flours that are excellent for your health, have tasty unique flavours and are very flexible to cook with. Soybean, buckwheat and chickpea flours are enjoyed around the world in a variety of different ways including bread & pastry making, pasta, baking, desserts and…
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Teff: Tiny Seed, Big Nutrition
Teff is a grass seed native to the North East African countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Also known as ‘love grass’, it has been traditionally used there as a staple food for thousands of years. Teff has an impressive nutritional profile, is gluten free and is becoming increasingly popular in western countries in all types of cooking both savoury and sweet. The Teff…
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Tips for Storing your Wholefoods
Whole foods are packed full of minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins and carbohydrates, all of which are susceptible to natural environmental elements such as light, heat, air, moisture and insects. Due to this vulnerability, whole foods are best kept under certain conditions in order to slow down the degradation of nutrients and to prevent the growth of unwanted microbes and bugs….
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Stress, Anxiety and the Wholefood Diet
Around the globe, there is a growing epidemic of mood disorders with anxiety at the core. Anxiety is a broad term used to describe a range of symptoms that varies for different individuals. Commonly experienced symptoms include excessive worry, trouble relaxing, irritability, problematic sleep, difficulty concentrating as well as the resultant muscular tension and hardness. Extreme cases of anxiety can…
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Anti-inflammatory Foods for Health
Inflammation is a normal and healthy process that is occurring in our body all of the time. It is the response by our immune system to protect our body from potentially harmful bacteria, toxins and viruses. Inflammation is also important in the repair and maintenance of our cells. However, constant inflammation can be harmful to the body leading to conditions…
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