7 Fun Fruit Ideas for Summer
Fruits play an extremely important role in a well-rounded, healthy diet. Fruit is packed with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, cancer fighting antioxidants, and fiber. You don’t want to leave this food group out of your diet! During the summer months there are so many beautiful and delicious fruits to be used and [...]
Crave Your Sweets And Eat Them Too With THIS Nutrition Tip!
As humans were are predisposed to love sweet tasting food. A mother’s breast milk is sweet and most babies will be inclined to enjoy sweet potatoes over regular potatoes any day. As we get older, foods that are high in sugar can lead to increased weight gain. This is partially due to the fact that [...]
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Foodie Friday: Clementines
Hurry up! Time is running out – you don’t want to miss the chance to enjoy the oh so sweet, naturally juicy, and refreshing taste of Clementines. They are only in season until the end of February (that’s this month!). This delightful citrus fruit is definitely hands down a cuter version of the everyday orange, [...]
Foodie Friday: Grapefruit
The actual beginnings of the grapefruit are not clear; the best indications are that the tart fruit is a hybrid cross between the sweet orange and sour shaddock (a citrus fruit as well). However, there is no documentation of the intentional cross. Somehow, this fruit that so many people love to eat has evolved and [...]
Foodie Friday: Pineapple
Pineapples are delicious tropical fruits that are especially fun to eat in the summer. In fact, they are my 9 year-old daughter’s favorite ingredient for her custom made smoothies! I definitely recommend eating fresh pineapple whenever possible. Pineapple is often uses in desserts, salads, and mixed fruit. Pineapples are a bromeliad fruit, which means that [...]
Foodie Friday: Dates
While certainly not the most attractive fruit, dates might just be the energy-boosting fruit that you’re missing out on! Date palms are among the oldest cultivated trees, having been grown in North America for at least 8,000 years. Classified according to their moisture content (soft, semisoft, dry), most varieties found in North America are semisoft [...]
How to Eat Dessert and Stay Lean!
It’s happened to the best of us at one time or another. You decide to start a diet, or just to start eating healthier and being more active, and thoughts soon drift to how much you’re going to miss enjoying dessert after meals. Not to worry – you don’t have to give it up! It [...]
