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American food scares the shit out of me, it so artificial and processed. Like why do that to food, why eat that??
I know fresh vegetables and fruits are too expensive, but surely there is more stuff "inbetween".
#My poo literally turned black which suggests upper digestion tract bleeding#I am allergic to soya and once went into anaphylaxis over chips#Like what are up adding to potato so I can't eat it???#Why did milk have an ingredients list?#Why do you pasteurise eggs just no#Why add so just stuff
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Evaluation Intro - Fluid Egg Whites Testimonial
I had been considering acquiring Flüssiges Eiweiß Fluid Egg Whites for some time yet with a high protein diet regimen already in place containing meat, fish as well as eggs, topped up by normal healthy protein drinks, I had always located a reason not to buy them. I also had doubts about just how to store the egg whites, how rapidly they ought to be eaten and how they must be taken. Nevertheless, having reviewed many exceptional evaluations, I decided to try the 6 pack barn farmed as well as you can read my ideas of this product below.
Healthy protein In Eggs
If you're seeking a product which is high in protein, low in carbs, low in fat and very practical then egg whites are for you. In fact, they are the purest form of protein you can get as well as if you speak to anyone looking to maintain a high protein diet, I can assure they will certainly be consuming eggs by the container load (or container lots ...)! They are likewise nature's leading protein source due to the fact that they are 100% bio-available significance they are completely taken in by the body with none of the amino acids going to waste.
They are additionally an exceptionally great option to a healthy protein shake for people seeking to slim down due to the fact that they are free from man-made flavouring, stabilisers, preservatives, sugarcoated and e numbers which numerous protein supplements have and they have basically no carbohydrates, fat or cholesterol. Nonetheless they are likewise really functional, many professional athletes include them right into their healthy protein trembles for an additional protein top up whilst they can additionally be made use of for rushed egg, omelette, baking as well as also taken in straight from the bottle!
Why Flüssiges Eiweiß Fluid Egg Whites?
Many of you may have become aware of the brand name '2 Chicks' who sell egg whites in supermarkets and also online. Nevertheless they just market small cartons and as a result the cost of purchasing them works out to be far more pricey than Flüssiges Eiweiß Liquid Egg Whites. The price per kg( since today) for Two Chicks is £& pound; 6.18; the rate per kg of Flüssiges Eiweiß barn farmed is just £& pound; 3.92! MP MAX Fluid Egg Whites are:
100% fresh egg white fully pasteurised for safety and security and also ease
Salmonella, listeria and also avadin totally free so completely risk-free to consume raw or prepared
No trans fats, flavouring, e numbers, chemicals or stabilisers
6 x 1kg bottles = 32 egg whites per container (and if our mathematics is proper ... 192 egg whites in complete!
Neutralising the avidin material means your body can totally make use of the B vitamin 'Biotin' which assists the body effectively use power stores. The pasteurisation procedure permits the egg whites to be kept for as much as 5 months in room warm so they do not need to be stored in a fridge whilst various other items usually just have a service life of 30 days.
Nutritional Information (Per 100g)
Power: 209.0 kj
Energy: 50.0 cal
Protein (as-is): 10.2 g
Carbohydrates: 1.1 g
Fat: 0.5 g
of which fills: trace
Cholesterol: trace
Utilizing Liquid Egg Whites
Before purchasing I had checked out a couple of reviews on Myprotein's internet site from clients saying they couldn't drink the egg whites right from the bottle which you need a polite (i.e. squash or juice) or a healthy protein shake with them. After that various other customers replied by stating they were very easy to consume alcohol by themselves and also didn't preference of anything.
After a labourious fitness center workout I decided to put it to the examination and also I absolutely share the views of the last clients. I found the egg whites were exceptionally simple to consume alcohol directly from the bottle, as a matter of fact it was so very easy I in some way handled to eat 500g in regarding 2 gulps! There was no aftertaste; really it seemed like I was just drinking water. Now whenever I wish to top up my everyday protein consumption as well as I am at home, I often just take the bottle from the fridge and gulp down 100-200g yet I understand that I might easily drink half a container if I wanted to.
I have actually likewise been using them in my protein shakes when I awaken in the early morning, before/after a workout and in the evening before bed. Merely include 200-300g of water right into your bottle, a scoop of healthy protein powder and 100ml of fluid whites.
Conversely, for a healthy and balanced breakfast, develop a shake including water, liquid egg whites, flaxseed as well as gruel oats; the best combination of healthy protein, fibre and also low GI carbohydrates to kick start your day.
I did try and use them for scrambled eggs but I didn't especially like the taste and learnt you would need to utilize a great deal of the fluid for one plate.
Other egg white dishes which you can explore include healthy protein pancakes, egg fried rice, healthy smoothies, quiches, meringues as well as soufflé.
How much time Do They Last?
"How do I keep liquid egg whites?" is a common question asked on the internet. Although Myprotein's have a shelf life of 5 months, once opened it is suggested that the bottle is eaten within 2-3 days with the lid secure. I understand some individuals make use of Tupperware to ration portions, freeze them then defrost them on days they want to use them. To be straightforward, I actually don't assume this is https://fluessigeseiweiss.de/ essential. I tend to go through a bottle in 4-6 days and after 5-6 days the egg whites will not go off, do not release a poor odour and also are still completely drinkable, especially if you're mixing them in with other fluids or protein powder.
Clearly it depends just how usually you mean to utilize them yet my recommendation would simply be to open a bottle, keep it in the refrigerated as well as use it within a week. Keep your unopened containers saved in a cupboard at room temperature level.
Conclusion
These 6 containers won't last me longer than 2 weeks! Nevertheless you undergo days where you do not use it since you don't have time, wish to utilize actual eggs or just do not wish to eat eggs! You additionally might not need to use it if you're already consuming plenty of protein throughout the day. I have actually now had the item for over 3 weeks and also still have 1 container left so I feel you will get an excellent month's supply of excellent quality pure protein for simply £& pound; 23.49 if utilizing the barn farmed version.
Egg whites are a fantastic resource of protein for those seeking to bulk up and also develop muscle plus those of you either aiming to slim down or strengthen. I would highly advise this product and also will be placing in a brand-new order once the last container has been taken in.
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Food: Intolerance or Allergic?
17/09/2020
First of all, when will your baby be ready to eat solid foods?
A recap:
When they are chewing their fingers and asking for more milk, here's a sign!
You then can start introducing a fruit/veggie. Starting with simple mash at first (potato, sweet potatoes, carrot, pear, apple...).
We often say that routine is the key to succeed in your child's education, but with food, diversity will prevent your child from becoming a fussy eater while growing up.
It is round the age of 6 months that you can start offering food which contains allergens. But only one a day and you may be able to see if your child has an allergic reaction or not.
I know that you will start being scared at this point of your child chocking.
We all are!
But babies are less at risk to choke if they feed themselves than being provided with a spoon.
But don't be afraid, they seem to be choking, but they're gagging. It's a gag reflex which helps to prevent choking. As they learn to eat solids, they're pushing the tongue forward or out of their mouths and do a retching movement to bring food.
The eyes may water, cough or even vomit.
Easy to say... but, don't panic!
You may even make things worse by letting your child seeing you acting crazy!
Just wait and let them cough!
Coughing is the sign your baby isn't chocking.
Chocking: you are not able to cry, cough, or gasp. Big differences!
Babies can also be offered to drink a few sips during meals with their first cup.
From 7 to 9 months
Your baby will be eating up to 3 meals a day.
More finger food is to encourage so they can feed themselves, and they will slowly develop their co-ordination. That's when they learn how to start biting. You should be able to begin trying small pieces of meat, fish and green vegetables. Their curiosity in tasting new flavours will encourage a baby not becoming a fussy eater.
However, remember!
Babies do not need any salt or sugar added to their food (or in cooking water).
From 12 months
A child will now be eating three meals a day: healthy and balanced.
As your baby grows, eating together will encourage him to copy (imitation is a key) and develop good eating habits.
In addition to milk, (about three feeds a day) and with two healthy snacks in between meals.
-> fruits
-> vegetables
-> daily products
Let's not forget breastfeeding. It's recommended to do it for up to 2 years or longer.
But that's up to you!
Don't be surprised if your child will need less breast milk as he/she will make room for more foods. They are usually weaning quickly at this point.
Which also means, no more infant formula. You can use whole cows' milk, as he/she will need the vitamins found in it. But also, he/she can now, use a cup with more confidence.
From 2 years old, if the child is eating well, he/she can have semi-skimmed milk.
Suppose you choose a healthy, balanced diet. You can use alternatives, such as soya, oat, or almond drinks, from the age of 1.
However, we should not give rice milk under five years old, as it contains traces of arsenic.
So good luck!
Food intolerance or food allergy?
A food allergy is a reaction by your immune system (it thinks like proteins are dangerous).
The body releases a chemical: histamine, which causes the classic allergy symptoms of hives or swelling, to the anaphylaxis shock.
Symptoms could be a rash, eczema, itching, just after eating. It is believed that babies with eczema problems are more likely to get a food allergy, but it's not automatic.
Food intolerance is considered as "less dangerous" (the body is merely struggling to digest).
Symptoms could happen a few hours after eating with a tummy ache or a skin rash.
If you have any suspicion of food that may have triggered some symptoms, you can try removing it from your child's diet and observing if he experiences new signs in the next two weeks.
Afterwards, reintroduce the food and see if symptoms return.
Of course, read on the labels to see if a packaged food contains any allergen.
Which explains why schools and other childcare establishments are so strict about food policies, and so, to avoid any responsibility.
Here are the most recurrent food reaction categories:
Cheese
Cheese can form part of a healthy, balanced diet for babies and young children, and provides calcium, protein, and vitamins.
Babies can eat pasteurised full-fat cheese from 6 months old. This includes hard cheeses, such as mild cheddar cheese, cottage cheese and cream cheese.
Babies and young children shouldn't eat mould-ripened soft cheeses.
Brie or camembert, or ripened goats' milk cheese and soft, blue-veined cheese, such as Roquefort, they are a higher risk that these (unpasteurised) cheeses may carry a bacteria called listeria.
You can check labels on cheeses to make sure they're made from pasteurised milk.
But you can use one of these cheeses in a part of a cooked recipe as the bacteria is killed by cooking. Baked brie, for example, is a safer option.
Eggs
Babies can have eggs from around six months.
But, of course, avoid raw eggs, including into an uncooked cake mixture, homemade creams, or desserts.
Fish
Cod is usually the first and the most favourite fish in our children's meals.
However, fish can increase the risk of food poisoning, depending on how it's been cooked. And the amount of mercury can affect the development of the nervous system. So be reasonable!
Gluten
Some people remove gluten from their diet because they "believe" they have experienced some symptoms after eating wheat.
It's essential to make sure what the symptoms are. If you have noticed your child having reactions to a portion of food or have any suspicious ... check with a GP. He might ask you to pass some detection tests with a specialist and check for any digestive or stomach illnesses. (which is a condition, not an allergy)!
Nuts
It shouldn't be given to children under five years old, as they can choke on them.
So you can prepare some from 6 months old, as long as you make sure they're well crushed.
You might need to check with your GP if there are allergies in the family before introducing any kind of nuts and peanuts.
Salt
As we mentioned before, we shouldn't add any salt or sugar in their diet.
So do not add, and only check if the food is too salty or too fat as babies don't have well developed or strong enough their kidneys yet.
Sugar
Babies don't need sugar.
(Including sugar found in juices and other drinks), it's just about dental hygiene.
Honey, sometimes, contains a bacteria that can lead to botulism, (an infection which causes weakness in the muscles) which can be very serious.
So, you can give your child some honey when he turns one year old.
And, of course, honey is a sugar, so be careful about tooth decay.
But Parents, don't necessarily overreact!
Sometimes babies have a slight reaction, (usually a small red skin reaction), simply because it is the first time they are trying something new...the body is figuring out how to react.
There is no known cure for food allergies or intolerance. The only responsible thing you can do is to avoid being in contact or being close to an allergen.
When you see the doctor, he might refer you to see an allergist. An allergy test is necessary, and with no risk and pain-free.
It's usually a skin test, a drop of the allergen on the tip of the finger. A moment later, a reddish area and a lookalike mosquito bite will appear. Then you will know if your child is positive for being allergic.
Otherwise, for children with strong reactions, a blood test is being required, checking the level of the allergen.
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Share this family :) This is for all African people everywhere, read it all, you need to know this... In July I posted a photo & said typical Congolese meal. What I should have said was pre-colonial traditional Congolese meal. Congolese people started to try & cuss me, because the food I posted wasn't the food they were brought up on. So it looked like I was in the wrong. Sitting next to a Congolese family on the bus I saw what they considered a meal. Fried chicken Fried pork Fried fish Fufu (powdered cassava) White rice Chilli Plantain Dongo dongo (okra) Cassava leaves Let me speak on this for a minute. African people had their cultures & food destroyed. Just because you speak an African language doesn't mean you know African history, you have to study to know. When you read books/journals about food written by African naturopaths, European Anthropologists, Holistic African nutritionists & botanists, you will soon realise that most West & Equatorial Africans, Kemetic & below, right up until desert or dry plains were predominantly vegan. The reason being, everything grew in those regions. Africa grew & ate plenty of natural alkaline foods. We knew the right foods to stimulate our pineal gland to produce our melanin. Now what do many Africans in Africa & diaspora eat? European influenced f*ckry. They stole our lands to grow plants that feed Europe & the European diaspora for their profit. Europeans control the food in Africa. We come from a culture of elders not carnivores. We were never cave people. Rarely, Africans would eat jungle fowl & fish but not domesticated chickens, pigs, cows or sheep. There are no wild relatives of the sheep or goat in Africa. Europeans brought them. Now we think animals that we can't eat raw, fried in genetically modified plant oil is food. Chickens, pigs, cows & sheep are fed on an anti thyroid GMO plant based diet so they get fat quickly, this make you get fat, the rotting meat is irradiated with deodorisers, formaldehyde, washed in ammonia & carbon monoxide to make this rotting blood & pus mess look fresh, 40% of meat sold in supermarkets is spoiled, the meat is pumped full of growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids & sex hormones so they reproduce quickly. We then feed this to our children, their bodies absorb these chemicals & now you have many African girls getting their period at 8 yrs old. It used to be 13-14, they are also developing breasts earlier & boys are able to get erections & ejaculate before they leave primary school. When you fry meat you destroy an amino acid called lysine, this regulates your pineal gland, this is how you produce melanin. The nucleus in every cell in your body is made of melanin. Eating fried meat is destroying your melanin & your health. There was never a frying pan found in ancient African Archeological sites. Do you really want the same health as your parents have? 1 in 3 African couples can't reproduce. 60% of African women have fibroids & thyroid problems & 40% of African men have prostate problems. Remember the Europeans destroyed our food, now they own the food industry, they stopped us from reading so we don't know what we ate traditionally & they have never known how to eat. When you look at them from an anthropological perspective, they were eating very poorly, this cause mental illness. Most of their deaths are diet related. A wolf cannot teach a gorilla how to eat. Yet we let them tell us what's healthy when Africans taught Europeans how to eat in the first place. Just look at what they were eating in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic & Neolithic periods. The bubonic plague wiped out 25% of the population of Europe, this was due to poor/no hygiene (the moors taught them to wash), having animals live in the house with them & thinking that bread, cheese, milk & cooked animals & people are food. (Google Vlad the impaler (Dracula) look up how they were still eating each other all the way up until the 1950s, there are many records of them eating each other, look up the cannibalism in Virginia in 1609, read a book called Dirt by Terence McLaughlin also read race and civilisation by Frederick Hertz. When you cook meat you also destroy glutamic acid, this feeds your brain, allows you to think properly, keeping you in touch with reality. Two vital proteins that you don't get when you cook meat & don't eat a varied plant based diet. Wild animals don't eat cooked food because it's not good for you. You destroy the enzymes needed to digest it. If you have to cook it, you should not eat it. If you wouldn't feed it to a child, you should not eat it. Cassava contains so much cyanide that it is banned in Japan. It is GMO rubbish & it got to Africa very recently. It is also hybridised. Nature did not create it, man did. The Portuguese imported it to west Africa en mass 300 years ago, it actually allow them to keep the abused Africans alive long enough to get them on ships be enslaved in Brazil and onwards. Now Africans believe it is their traditional food. But many Africans also believe in white Jesus, I don't need to go in to that now do I? Oil stewed Cassava leaves, more cyanide, destroys your liver & your kidneys, Cassava leaves are used as a purgative because your body sees them as a poison, but we call them food? Fish, Fukushima happened recently right? There are oil spills all of the time, the sea is full of micro plastics & the fish are eating this. Filtering the poisons through their gills into their bloodstream. The sea is turning acidic... Your body is turning acidic. The sea is alive with parasitical creatures & the fish ingest these, then you eat them & worms grow inside of you. They eat your food, they make you crave sugar & salt at night... night is when parasites are most active. Your body is in its assimilation phase, when your blood is full of food nutrition. When you cook fish the worm eggs do not die. The worms will wriggle out of your backside at night and lay their eggs in your crotch & ass crack, while you are asleep you will scratch that area & then touch your face, ingesting the worms and starting the process again. At night these worms wriggle up to the surface of your skin & lay their eggs. We call them whiteheads. You wake up with them but aren't sure how they got there. Meat is full of worms & makes the body acidic, land dwelling animals that eat a primarily carnivorous diet don't live long lives. The animals that eat plants do. This is because plants get more oxygen into your tissues, meat takes it away. Just compare the life expectancy of a Maasai warrior (43 mainly eats meat) to someone who lives in Nairobi 67. Look at the average life expectancy of an Inuit (43). Then go to the countryside in India (vegetarian/ mainly vegan) compare the difference in life expectancy to "carnivorous" humans. It is significant If you want to die early with cancer or organ failure, then eat loads of meat everyday. It's actually mad that many people care about where their trainers & bags that they wear on their bodies come from but they don't actually give a f*ck where the dead animals that they are putting in their bodies come from. We were raised not knowing how to eat, we raise children who raise children who don't know how to eat. It's pathetic. Much of the plantain that we eat now is hybridised, it is of the banana family, Google original banana are you will see what a banana really looks like. You could not plant a plantain or a banana and expect it to grow. You shouldn't eat anything that can't reproduce itself. I used to eat much plantain, I don't really anymore but I do still enjoy the taste. Raw or boiled is best for your health. You don't need to fry it, the sun fires it, makes it go brown, you should eat it raw. Chillies are an irritating fruit (anything fruiting & containing seeds is a fruit, tomato is a fruit so is cucumber, anything that flowers is a fruit) Chillies Should be used as a medicine but not consistently as an additive to all foods you eat. Yes it adds heat to your food, it adds heat everywhere & it irritates & inflames your digestive system, this causes enlarged & then distended colons which eventually collapse. Causing constipation & mucus/pus build ups. White rice is imported from China & India. It got to Africa from the east via cultivation in south America. It is not African traditional food. It turns into sugar, it is polished & the fibre (indigestible roughage) is removed. The rice manifests as adipose tissue (fat), causes blockages in your system, this in turn causes constipation, which in turn causes dis-ease & cancers. Research African wild rice, indigenous to Africa. This was replaced by eastern rice but African wild (Black rice is good for you & even stopped the famine in Senegal of 1201. Stop eating so much sugar & salt. It is killing your family slowly but surely. Eat more organic dark leafy Greens, these contain chlorophyll, this is a plants melanin & produces energy in your body & transports oxygen to your cells, which create tissues which create organs which create organ systems. Your body need oxygen & water in order to carry out its biological processes. Eat Fonio, Millet (was the staple in China about 9000 bc in the north, indigenous to Africa.) Boiled yam, Amaranth & quinoa (south American but very good for you) Sorghum, Kamut, Barley, Emmer, purple nutgrass. Eat fresh fruit in the morning(contains digestive enzymes and vital minerals, vitamins). Not cereal & milk. No animal eats milk with anything else but we do, you are smarter than a cow but your diet would disagree. Milk, butter, yoghurt, cheese & ice cream is all the same f*ckry, full of lipids, growth hormones, pus, sex hormones, then it is pasteurised (cooked) so you couldn't digest this bovine mammals milk if you wanted to because the digestive enzymes are destroyed. It causes osteoporosis! You create disease by why you eat. Diabetes runs in your family because the people in your family don't run & all eat the same bullsh*t food like products. I want you to be healthy because I love you. Why should proper health & nutrition just be reserved for rich European families. As I learn I will relay information. Africans were the first humans to eat food on the planet. Let's start acting like it. Pass this on please #chakabars #famfoods Books to read African holistic health, Dr Llaila Afrika Nutricide, Dr Llaila Afrika The Tao of health, sex and longevity, Daniel Reid Cambridge book of world food history.
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13 Keto-Friendly Fiber Foods http://bit.ly/2GiFxTG
While some keto or low-carb proponents claim fiber is useless at best and actively harmful at worst, I come down on the side that says fiber is probably helpful for most people. Some folks have persistently better responses to low- or no-fiber keto diets, and I won’t argue with that—I’ve seen it happen and I’ve read the studies where de-emphasizing fiber can actually improve constipation, for example.
I’ll just say that I have an opposite reaction, and, most importantly, I love eating a variety of plant foods that also happen to contain a ton of great nutrients in addition to fiber.
Do I buy into the idea that fiber is important because it is every human being’s responsibility to produce as much colonic bulk as humanly possible? No.
Do I think we should be consistently pushing the limits of our digestive tracts, performing feats of bathroom heroism so momentous they border on Herculean, and making sure the toilet bowl buckles beneath us? No.
The real value of fiber lies not in its coarseness, its tendency to form colonic bulk, to keep us topped off. The true value lies in its fermentability. A fermentable fiber is a prebiotic fiber—fiber that feeds our gut bacteria.
I won’t get into the many roles our gut bacteria play in our health today (I’ve covered that before. 1, 2, 3).
I will, however, explain why we need to be feeding our gut bacteria. Our gut bacteria form a physical barrier against incursions and colonization by pathogenic bacteria; they take up room along the gut lining so pathogens can’t. If we don’t feed our gut bacteria with prebiotics, it won’t be around to protect us. After antibiotic treatment where both good and bad gut flora are indiscriminately targeted and wiped out, pathogenic obesity-promoting bacteria take advantage of the open space. That’s a worst-case scenario, but it shows what can happen when the harmony of the gut is disturbed by antibiotics or, to a less extent, a lack of fermentable prebiotic fibers.
When our gut bacteria eat prebiotics, they also give off metabolites like butyric acid—a short chain fatty acid that our colonic cells use as an energy source and which improves metabolic health.
Gut bacteria also convert antinutrients like phytic acid into nutrients like inositol. The almond meal-obsessed keto eater would do well to have a powerful gut biome set up to convert all that phytic acid to inositol.
Now, some writers will come up with specific blends of fibers, powders and gums to create the “optimal” prebiotic diet for your gut bacteria, but that’s pretty silly. The gut is a complicated place. We’ve barely begun to even identify all its inhabitants. To think we know the precise blend of isolated fiber that will make them flourish, and then act on that, is a mistake.
A better option is to eat foods that contain fiber. Some of the prebiotic fibrous foods with the best nutrient profiles also happen to be extremely keto-friendly.
1) Almonds and Pistachios
Nuts are usually favored in health-conscious circles for a few reasons. They like the monounsaturated fat. They like the mineral profile, or the complete protein, or their ability to dissemble into nut meals and form baked goods. But what gets short shrift is the fiber content. Now, I can’t speak for other nuts, but almonds and pistachios in particular contain fiber with potent prebiotic effects. People who eat almonds and to an even greater extent pistachios end up with improved gut bacteria profiles.
2) Green Bananas
Ripe bananas are difficult to squeeze into a ketogenic diet. The green banana—an unripe one—is mostly resistant starch, a type of starch that cannot be digested and travels untouched until colonic bacteria metabolize it. It’s one of the best stimulators we know of butyric acid production. And sure, you could do a spoonful of raw potato starch to get your resistant starch, but the beauty of the green banana is that it also provides potassium, another nutrient that some find difficult to obtain and stay keto.
3) Wild Blueberries
Blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, and strawberries are all loaded with fiber, and you should eat them. They’re lower carb than you think, they’re loaded with polyphenols, and topped with some real whipped cream they make a fantastic dessert. But wild blueberries are special. They’re smaller than other berries, which increases the amount of skin per ounce you get, and skin is where all the polyphenols and fiber lie. Heck, even the blueberry’s polyphenols have prebiotic effects on the gut biome.
4) Mushrooms
A few years ago, I wrote a whole post on mushrooms. Suffice it to say, they’re quite wonderful, bordering on magical. I did not discuss the fiber they contain. It turns out that all the various mushroom polysaccharides/fibers, including beta-glucans, mannans, chitin, xylans, and galactans also act as potent prebiotics that improve the health of the host.
5) Avocado
Your standard avocado has about 12-15 grams of fiber, if you eat the whole thing. I
6) Jicama
Great with chili powder, salt, and lime juice, jicama is about 11 grams of carbs per cup, but half of those are inulin, a potent prebiotic fiber with a tendency to really ramp up butyrate production.
7) Onions
Onions are another fantastic source of inulin. They go into almost every dish of every cuisine, so there’s no excuse not to be eating onions.
8) Garlic
I’ve been known to treat garlic like a vegetable, roasting an entire cast iron pan full until brown and sweet and chewy. They’re another great source of prebiotic fiber.
9) Leeks
Leeks have more inulin than onions. Try them crispy in egg scrambles.
10) Broccoli
Broccolini is a major part of my favorite meal of the day—my Big-Ass Keto Salad. Broccoli (and cruciferous vegetables in general) has been shown to have modulatory effects on the gut biome.
11) Sauerkraut
Kraut gives you two in one. It’s a fermented food, which is great for the gut biome. And it’s cabbage, which is very fibrous. Even pasteurized kraut improves gut health.
12) Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate, the good stuff with a high cacao content (85%+) and low sugar content, is an incredible source of prebiotic fiber. Eat more of it.
13) Animal Fiber
Obligate carnivores like cheetahs who don’t eat any plants (willingly) still have gut bacteria. These gut bacteria thrive on “animal fiber,” the gristle and cartilage and other bits of connective tissue that comprise a good 20-30% of the walking weight of a prey animal. Humans are not obligate carnivores, but eating the entire animal has been a mainstay of advanced hominid existence for millions of years. I find it very likely that something, someone, somewhere inside our guts is breaking down the animal fiber we eat—so you’d better be eating some!
Not so tough, is it? It’s not like I’m suggesting you load up on bran muffins, psyllium smoothies. I don’t want you dumping flax meal into everything or munching on those awful fiber gummies. Just eat some basic, healthy, low-carb plant matter—foods that don’t really scream “fiber”—and the rest will take care of itself.
What’s your favorite low-carb source of fiber? Let me know down below.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
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A foodie's ultimate long weekend in the Scenic Rim
It might seem unlikely to find a foodie’s paradise on the edge of an ancient volcanic rim, but head south-west of Brisbane for just an hour and you’ll land at the Scenic Rim region – a spectacular landscape packed with culinary surprises.
From speciality seafood to award-winning cheese and world-class fruit, the Scenic Rim is an endless buffet of fresh produce and the ultimate spot for experiential diners. Devour the best it has to offer by digging into this long weekend itinerary.
Day 1
12PM: Spicers Hidden Vale
If Brisbane’s backyard has a best-kept secret, Spicers Hidden Vale is it. The true hero of the property – set on 12,000 acres of working farmland in the Lockyer Valley region – is the Spicers’ signature restaurant, Homage.
Head chef, Ash Martin, makes paddock to plate look positively perfect, with a menu incorporating products from the local area and herbs from the onsite market garden. By day, sweeping views of the Scenic Rim are complemented by a gourmet picnic of tomato and goats curd quiche or antipasto vegetables with olives, or seasonal two and three-course lunches.
To cap it off, Homage has been awarded one chefs hat in the 2019 Good Food Guide Awards – so you know it’s going to be worth the pitstop.
2:30PM: Freshwater Australian Crayfish Traders
Driving between Hidden Vale and Tarome, you’ll see why this area is so keen to celebrate its farmers – but stop in at Freshwater Australian Crayfish Traders’ 80-hectare property and you’ll be treated to an even more unique perspective.
Packed with over 70 freshwater dams, it’s home to some of Australia’s best crayfish with this local trader selling up to a million redclaw crayfish each year, as well as a range of other freshwater aquatic fish and shrimps, to the restaurant trade all over south-east Queensland.
Pack an Esky and grab yourself some takeaway crays at a great price.
6PM: Spicers Peak Lodge
The twists and turns your wheels will take to make it to the top of Spicers Peak Lodge are well worth it when you arrive at 10,000 acres overlooking the World Heritage-listed Main Range National Park and Great Dividing Range.
Peak Lodge might be Australia’s highest non-alpine luxury property, but that’s not it’s only claim to fame – the property’s restaurant, The Peak, was also awarded one chefs hat in the 2019 Good Food Guide Awards.
With a focus on ‘The best of Australia’, you’ll be feasting on uniquely Australian goodness with luxury trimmings. The Peak’s menu sates appetites with ingredients such as Fraser Isle spanner crab, Moreton Bay bug and Bowen mangoes.
Rest your head here and all meals and beverages – including the celebrated degustation dinner menu – are included in the price tag.
Day 2
8AM: Stay right where you are
Whatever you do, don’t skip the first meal of the day at Spicers Peak Lodge. The breakfast game is strong here – especially the dressed-up avocado on toast with goats curd, sumac and dukkah on house-baked sourdough.
Or, you can dig into other delicacies like the “Funghi Feast” served with poached eggs, mushrooms, parmesan custard, marinated grains and soft leaves.
11AM: Kalfresh Vegetables
Veggie lovers should make a beeline for Kalfresh Vegetables, Queensland’s largest supplier of carrots. You can stop in at their Kalbar base to see where most of Australia’s carrots, onions, green beans and pumpkin start life as seedlings.
Aside from observing produce and packing, you’ll also stumble across one of Queensland’s most unusual creations – carrot beer. Made with 16 per cent carrot juice, it’s surely the healthiest beer around.
12PM: Fassifern Valley Produce
Heirloom tomatoes have never looked as good as the ones that come out of Fassifern Valley Produce. With colours befitting of such exotic names, brace your taste buds for flavour bursts from their Green Zebra, Tigerella, Ida Gold and Black Cherry varieties, plus the Mortgage Lifter – a tomato named by its grower in recognition of this ruby red fruit being his ticket to a debt-free life.
Bring your reusable shopping bag and stock up at their roadside stall on Boonah-Fassifern Rd, which turns over more than a tonne of fresh tomatoes each week.
1PM: Kooroomba Vineyard & Lavender Farm
Dig into a scrumptious lunch prepared by the chefs at Kooroomba Vineyard & Lavender Farm. While seasonal vegetables are prominent on the menu it is, of course, lavender that plays a starring role in dishes like lavender confit duck leg and lavender crème brulee.
You’ll also find a cellar door and lavender shop here, all overlooking six acres of vineyards, fields of lavender and the Scenic Rim Mountains.
2PM: Naughty Little Kids
Move over Italy; Boonah is serving up some of the best gelato this side of Rome. Dig your sweet tooth into a scoop of Naughty Little Kids gelato on the farm where it’s actually produced.
They’ve put their own spin on the traditional gelato recipe by using goat’s milk instead of cow’s, which makes this ice-cream lactose friendly (not lactose-free), and 100% gluten-, egg- and nut-free to boot. Sensitive tums, rejoice!
3PM: Bunjurgen Estate vineyard
Ah, rosé; the lovable grape combination that merges the crispness of a white with the body of a red and goes down as smooth as a bubbly. If you feel the same way about rosé, make tracks to Bunjurgen Estate Vineyard for their award-winning pink drop.
Wine tastings are conducted in either an undercover outdoor cellar door or beneath a jacaranda tree, allowing you to take in the breathtaking Scenic Rim vistas with every sip. The kind folk at Bunjurgen allow BYO picnics (or fresh Fassifern Valley tomato hauls) too.
5PM: Scenic Rim Brewery & Cafe
Operating out of a heritage-listed old general store, the small family-owned Scenic Rim Brewery & Cafe is dedicated to brewing craft beer with the best ingredients.
There’s a café smack bang in the middle of the brewery’s factory floor, so you can wash down your glass of Digga, Shazza or Fat Man with a tasty treat from their Dutch-inspired menu.
7PM: Ketchups Bank Glamping
You’ve got to love a destination where even the accommodation sounds like something you can eat! Enter Ketchups Bank Glamping and their luxury eco-tents near Boonah, where you’re promised unparalleled mountain views and a relaxing evening in a rugged Australian bush setting.
They offer up BBQ dinner hampers for two, packed with locally-sourced cuts of meat and fresh vegetables ready to toss on your private BBQ or campfire; plus a country breakfast hamper for the AM.
DAY 3
11AM: Towri Sheep Cheeses
Ditch the traditional morning tea and lunch meals and dedicate this day to grazing – on sheep cheese!
Towri Sheep Cheeses, just outside of Beaudesert, won’t just let you devour the cheese, they’ll also teach you how to make it with their ‘art of cheese-making’ class (takes place every second Wednesday).
With 350 sheep on site, there’s no shortage of supplies to make hard and soft varieties. And you certainly won’t leave hungry with morning tea, light refreshments and lunch all part of the package.
3PM: Witches Falls Winery
Follow the ridgeline of this ancient landscape towards the coast until you reach Tamborine Mountain, timing your route to catch the cellar door at Witches Falls Winery before it closes.
Get to know their signature drops with a tasting paddle – a flight of wines will leave you with change from a tenner. If you order in advance, you can pair your tipples with a delicious platter from local deli, The Vintage Pickle.
6PM: Witches Falls Cottages
Stay within arm’s reach of the winery at Witches Falls Cottages – all about location, and offering up a secluded setting for a romantic getaway.
As for food, if there’s still belly room, you can have take-away delivered to your cottage from many of the local restaurants on the mountain or the Witches Falls team can pull together a BBQ dinner hamper complete with dessert.
Day 4
A day of hunting and gathering
Make today about stocking up on local supplies before leaving the Scenic Rim. While most of the suppliers don’t have their own farm gate, they use cafes, restaurants and boutique shops to sell their produce.
Look out for these grocery essentials:
Scenic Rim Olives: The region even produces its own olives. You’ll find them in brine, olive oil, tapenade and dukkah for a salty fix.
Dewar Honey:Making the Scenic Rim all the more sweet, these jars of liquid amber are the work of a third-generation beekeeper.
Farmer Joe’s Garlic and Produce: Warding off vampires this side of the Gondwana Rainforest, Farmer Joe’s garlic business is one of only 30 garlic growers in Australia.
Tamborine Mountain Free Range Eggs: These chickens are so special they have their own guard dog who keeps them free from predators on the 80-acre farm.
4Real Milk: If you’re enjoying a cup of coffee in this neck of the woods, chances are it’s made with 4Real Milk, a pasteurised, non-homogenised full cream milk.
The Lime Caviar Company: The Scenic Rim happens to be home to Australia’s premier grower of native finger limes. They pick-to-order and supply local and international fine dining markets.
Want more? Scenic Rim Eat Local Week is your backstage pass to the farms, wineries and food stories of the Scenic Rim. Eat your way around the region through a range of experiences from long table lunches to carrot-picking!
Have you done a foodie weekend in the Scenic Rim before? Let us know your finds in the comments below.
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Kebabs in Istanbul, sea urchins in County Cork, a sensational lobster pasta in London: top chefs and food writers share their favourite meals this year
Çiya Sofrasi and Kadiköy market, Istanbul
René Redzepi Chef-patron, Noma, Copenhagen
Walking through Kadiköy market in Istanbul you see dried aubergines hanging from stalls, dried chilli peppers and fresh dürüm, and Turkish tea being poured all throughout. You hear street merchants calling out their catch of the day, maybe a bag of sardines, turbot from the Black Sea or a kilo of mussels. I was there en route to Çiya, in the heart of this picturesque market. Çiya to me embodies the perfect restaurant: full of tradition but not afraid of innovating, with a generous and welcoming space. The meal is a cornucopia of all there is to offer from Anatolia lamb stewed with dried cherries, chopped parsley with vinegar, rice cooked with raisins and fistfuls of whole spices… I would happily put myself on a plane just to go and have lunch there on a beautiful spring day.
Pickled herring platter at Russ & Daughters, New York
Yotam Ottolenghi Chef and food writer
It was a platter of pickled herring fillets with three sauce options on the side cream, mustard and curry along with schmaltz herring fillets and then matjes herring fillets. In the centre were pickled onions, roll mops and a beet and herring salad. I had it for breakfast, around 11am, and it left a sweet (albeit fishy) taste in my mouth for the next few days.
I love the cafe, which opened last year and is strongly modelled on the long-established store. Sardines, chubs, rugelach, pickles, boxes of matzo, halva sold by the block, rye bread to blow your socks off, Bloody Marys: these are the flavours which define New York for me.
Idiazábal cheese, Urbia mountains, Spain
Elena Arzak Chef-patron, Arzak, San Sebastián
This spring I made an idiazábal cheese with a shepherd in the Urbia mountains in the Basque country. We used natural rennet which the shepherd made from the stomach of a latxa lamb. When I went to pick my cheese up this autumn (after the ageing process) it had all the rich true flavour of the milk, but you could also sense the environment in which the mother had grazed. I could close my eyes and imagine myself on that windswept mountain top. The fact I made it heightened the flavour. I ate it with my family, either by itself or with walnuts, quince jelly and apple jelly.
Dashi-simmered asparagus, tofu and egg at Koya, London
Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich Chef-owners, Honey & Co, London
We went to Koya a couple of days before it closed and had an amazing goodbye meal. The asparagus and tofu dish was so delicious, we ordered another for dessert. It had those really fat English asparagus, blanched and chargrilled, with tofu, bonito flakes and a dashi broth. It was so nicely balanced and full of flavour. The next day, Itamar went back with our head chef to eat it all over again. The food in those last days of Koya felt very organic, more like dishes Junya [Yamasaki, the head chef] would make at home than normal restaurant stuff.
Sea urchins from County Cork
Jacob Kenedy Chef-patron, Bocca di Lupo, London
From now until February or March, you can get amazing sea urchins from Ireland. I had my first one last week and it was mindbogglingly good. You can get warm-water sea urchins, which tend to be bigger and more impressive-looking, all year round, but they are much less intensely flavoured. The Irish ones mine came from John Chamberlain in Dunmanus Bay, Co Cork have an enveloping fishy flavour. Theyre wonderful stirred through pasta or with sushi, but I prefer them on their own with just a tiny squeeze of lemon. You slice them open, clean out the gunky stuff, rinse them in sea water and scoop out the eggs with a teaspoon. It makes you realise how amazing nature is, and how little we should mess with our food.
Sea-salt ice cream in Dingle, County Kerry
James Jocky Petrie Group executive development chef, Gordon Ramsay Group
In Dingle this summer, during a chowder competition with lots of Guinness and live music, I tried a sea-salt ice cream at Murphys. It was one of those things that makes you go, damn, why didnt I think of that? Everyone loves salted caramel, but this is different: just plain ice cream with sea salt. It sounds odd but it really works: the sweetness of the sugar balances the salty character. Its almost savoury but not quite its just a sweet salt. People come from miles around to eat this ice cream.
Lamb köfte at Sultanahmet Köftecisi, Istanbul
Karam Sethi Chef-patron, Gymkhana, Trishna, London
I went to Istanbul for the first time this year and ate at a place called Sultanahmet Köftecisi. After visiting the Blue Mosque nearby, we saw the big queue outside and decided to find out what was going on. They specialise in lamb köftes grilled very simply over charcoal and served with bread, pickled chillies and their house chilli paste. We ordered one and ended up having six. Its tough to find something so succulent and juicy and flavourful. I think its down to the quality and fat content of the meat, and that they serve them hot off the grill, so you can still taste the charcoal. Theyve mastered the recipe over years and years. Its the ultimate kebab.
Yuzu ramen at Afuri, Tokyo. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Yuzu ramen at Afuri, Tokyo
Brett Redman Chef-owner, The Richmond, Elliots, Jidori, London
On a research visit to Tokyo at the start of the year, I had a yuzu shio-ramen at a place called Afuri in the basement of a shopping centre in Roppongi Hills. Im not an aficionado but it was the best ramen Ive ever had. They make it with chicken stock, which makes it much lighter than the rich, milky tonkotsu ramen were used to in London. The addition of fresh yuzu is ingenious: the intensity and fragrance of yuzu peel blasts all the way through the stock. It left my head spinning: how do you get so much flavour into this bowl?
Khao chae at Lai Rod, Bangkok
Fuchsia Dunlop Food writer
I was going to recommend a meal at the Dragon Well Manor restaurant in Hangzhou every time I go there its the best meal of the year but then I had something totally amazing today in Bangkok. I was in Thailand for the first time and the food blogger The Skinny Bib recommended I go to an old-school Thai restaurant called Lai Rod. The standout from quite a long lunch was a dish called khao chae: grains of rice in iced water with flower petals, perfumed with candle smoke. It was served with a platter of deep-fried relishes green chilli stuffed with pork, fish floss flavoured with coconut, caramelised beef and some salted radish with a little egg yolk and beautifully cut pieces of green mango, cucumber and a crunchy yellow root with a remarkable taste. The combination of the sweet, salty and umami flavours from the relishes and the smoky, perfumed rice soup was a revelation.
Grilled shrimps at Sa Foradada, Mallorca
Tomos Parry Head chef, Kitty Fishers, London
I went to this fantastic cliffside restaurant this summer. The whole experience is pretty special: you park your car, jump over a fence (which stays closed to keep wild donkeys in) and walk for half an hour through fields with fig trees and goats. The trek is worth it for the food and the view youre looking out over the bay where they catch most of your dinner. I particularly liked the shrimp, cooked very simply over a grill with wood from the trees around the restaurant. A lot of the skill in grilling lies in restraint, and these shrimp were barely cooked, so you can still taste the sea without being overpowered by the wood.
Grilled shrimps at Sa Foradada, Mallorca. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Unpasteurised cream from Ottinge Court Farm, Kent
Stephen Harris Chef-patron, The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
Im slightly obsessed with dairy produce and this year Ive started buying unpasteurised cream from Ottinge Court Farm near Folkestone. We hadnt been able to get it at the restaurant for about five years because the testing required for unpasteurised milk has become prohibitively expensive for most farms. The difference is just incredible. The pasteurisation process wipes out all the interesting things. In this, I can taste a hint of flowers and a rosewater tone. Theres a slight dung-y taste, which some people find offputting but I really like. You know it has come from a cow as opposed to a goat or a sheep, because it smells a bit like when you get near cows. Ive been trying it out with a warm chocolate mousse and a tiny bit of salt and thats probably the best thing Ive tasted all year.
Iio Jozos fujisu vinegar, Japan
James Lowe Head chef, Lyles, London
In February I visited Iio Jozo, a vinegar-maker outside Kyoto which has been producing rice vinegar for 120 years. They oversee all the parts of the process themselves: they brew their own sake and have local farmers growing the organic rice for them. One thing they do is collect the sake lees the fermented rice left over after filtering and pile it into big wooden barrels to age for up to 10 years. It starts out as a white, pure-looking paste but by year ten its black like treacle. The vinegar he makes from it is incredible. He gave me a litre bottle and, at first, I tried to use it sparingly, but I ended up putting it on lots of things at the restaurant. It was gone within a week.
Pasta al forno at La Cantinetta, Barolo, Italy
Sam Harris Chef-patron, Zucca, London
Ive been eating at La Cantinetta since I started going to Piedmont 15 years ago its a very simple little trattoria run by two brothers but it was the first time Id had this dish. They ran it as a special and it was amazing a perfect baked pasta. Pasta al forno is basically lasagne, though the woman serving us insisted there was a difference. This one was quite firm and didnt collapse all over the plate, which is a good thing. There were loads of layers we counted about 15 and a very scant amount of béchamel and meat ragu, but just the right amount. The seasoning was bang on, it was really crisp on the top. Ive had millions of lasagnes over the years, but this blew my head off.
Ochazuke at Ishikawa, Tokyo
Isaac McHale Head chef, the Clove Club, London
Ochazuke is a dish of rice, a few bits to sprinkle on top seaweed, toasted things, salmon eggs, shiso, whatever you have with green tea or dashi poured over it, a Japanese late-night fridge buffet. The fresh rice, the cornerstone of a Japanese meal, was a revelation. It was fragrant, just chewy, almost al dente and made me really pay attention to the rice for the rest of our trip. Ive been reading about ochazuke in Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art for 18 years and dreaming of a Scottish version, with Assam tea and pheasant broth over barley. To be served one in one of the best restaurants in Japan, made my heart sing.
Porcini in Tuscany
Ruth Rogers Chef and co-founder, the River Café, London
The family, around 20 of us, go to Tuscany every summer, near Monte Amiata. This year we were there when the first porcini were found. Our gardener brought them for us as a surprise, then I roasted them whole with a bit of garlic and thyme, two hours after they were picked. We put them in the oven for a long time, almost an hour, then ate them with nothing else on the plate. It was the setting as much as the flavour; all of us being there together, the excitement of them arriving. It was late August, so it felt like a farewell to summer and the beginning of autumn.
Lobster pasta at Hedone, London
Nathan Outlaw Chef-patron, Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Port Isaac, Cornwall
A lot of people told me Hedone was good, but the lobster pasta was the best thing Ive ever eaten in England, and Ive eaten a lot of food in England. It wasnt so much the cooking as the ingredients. They kill all their seafood fresh to order and that makes all the difference. You dont get a menu. If you ask Mikael [Jonsson] for one, he says hell send it, but never does. But from what I can gather he took the coral from the lobster and put it into the bisque, which was slightly aerated. The pasta was just a flat sheet, almost like lasagna, and cooked perfectly. Its refreshing to see a chef sticking to his guns and cooking the best produce he can find. The British restaurant scene is much newer than in France or Spain or Italy, and I dont think weve scratched the surface of whats possible in our own country, with our own ingredients.
Sushi at Masa, New York
Hélène Darroze Chef cuisinière, Hélène Darroze at the Connaught, London
I was in New York with my chefs to cook a special dinner and we went to Masa. Its not the kind of place you can go every day its really expensive but it was an experience. You eat at the counter, and they make everything à la minute, right in front of you. The best thing was a piece where the chef took a kind of white membrane of the tuna not the the meat itself and wove it over a piece of rice into a piece of sushi. The rice was a little warm. It was so surprising: very smooth to eat but then the flavour of the tuna was like an explosion in the mouth. Just incredible.
Sushi at Masa, New York. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Pizza at Mission Chinese, New York
Lee Tiernan Chef-owner, Black Axe Mangal, London
I was scared about opening our new restaurant, and Danny Bowien invited me over to spend a few days at Mission Chinese in New York. I always feel calm around Danny. He has a lot on his plate but he just deals with it. The best thing I ate was a cheese and tomato pizza with mapo tofu on top, cooked in their wood oven. The base is made to a Tartine bread recipe, then the tofu is just rolled around on top. Its quite unusual to have a cheese and tomato DOP pizza on a Chinese restaurant menu, but nothings going to stop those guys doing what they want. I think about that pizza every day. I wish I was eating it right now, in fact.
Roast lamb in Segovia, Spain
Nieves Barragán Executive chef, Barrafina, London
When I went to Segovia, one hour north of Madrid, I went to José MarÃa, a family place where they make the best roast mixed lamb on the wood fire. There were six of us; it was a four-hour lunch. We had two things: the lamb, which came with roast kidneys, and the suckling pig, with amazing roast potatoes and grilled peppers on the side. It was stunning: juicy, crisp It sounds quite English, but the centre of Spain is like this, its very traditional all roasts. Their oven is huge, so beautiful half the size of Barrafina. I would love to have something like that in London.
Tarte tatin in Lamotte-Beuvron, France
Shuko Oda Head chef, Koya Bar, London
We visited Lamotte-Beuvron, an hour or two from Paris, where tarte tatin is originally from. We went to the local bakery and bought the tarte tatin there. I dont normally have a sweet tooth but it was absolutely beautiful. It was a nothing-special-but-everything-about-it-was-special type of thing.
Goats curd mousse at Lyles, London
Anissa Helou Food writer
Lyles has been my favourite restaurant more or less since it opened, and a few months ago I took two young Qatari friends for dinner as I wanted them to taste James Lowes cooking. It was a perfect meal, ending with an amazing goats curd mousse. It was sensational: a little bowl with the mousse on the bottom, covered by an apple granita made with estivale apples and sorrel. The apples werent peeled so the flavour was incredibly intense but not too sweet. And then there was this beautiful crunchy cracker a very, very thin sheet made with apple, sugar and star anise. The textures were incredible: creamy, icy and then crackly. My friends loved it.
Pizza at Gjusta, Los Angeles
Claire Ptak Owner, Violet Bakery, London
The thing thats really been on my mind is this pizza we had in Los Angeles at Gjusta [a bakery and café]. It was one of the best, most perfectly seasoned, chewy, crunchy, doughy things Ive ever eaten. Ive been dreaming about it. Its more like pizza bianca that you get in Rome, but thinner. They make it in big rectangular sheet pans. Really salty and oily, and stretched out. The one we ate had tomatoes, red onion, little bits of ricotta, an egg, and just oil and salt. It was transcendent.
Pizza at Gjusta, Los Angeles. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Grouse from Scotland
Blanche Vaughan Cook and food writer
I was standing on a moor in mid-September just when the heather is in flower and I shot a grouse. I plucked it myself, wrapped it up and took it back on the train. Its a nice thing to be able to cook for other people. I made a recipe I learned at the River Café: you make a bruschetta with roast tomatoes on top, slosh in red wine so it soaks into the bread, then you brown the bird and roast it on top of the bruschetta so all the juices seep in.
Burger at the Four Seasons, New York
Fergus Henderson Co-owner, St John, London
A perfect burger at the Four Seasons bar in the Seagram Building in New York. I had a dry martini, which is a good way to start lunch, and a very nice pinot noir to wash it down. A real treat. It was a classic burger but its the setting: its a beautiful room, a special place. They have chainmail on the windows, which shimmers. The bar has amazing spikes hanging above it, so everything they serve could be the last thing you ever eat or drink before a spike runs you through, which adds a certain twist to the whole thing.
Grilled cauliflower at Hearth, New York
Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley Cookery writers
In September we went to Hearth in New York. They offered us a seat at the chefs pass (directly in front of the kitchen), where we enjoyed the most incredible six-course tasting menu right at the heart of all the action. The atmosphere was electric, the food was incredible the grilled cauliflower with sunflower seeds and capers, and grilled beef neck were especially memorable and typical of chef Marco Canoras food philosophy. His rustic, home-style cooking champions seasonal produce, nose-to-tail eating and a waste not, want not attitude.
Spaghettoni at Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda, Italy
Andrea Petrini Food writer, founder of Gelinaz!
Spaghettoni at Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda, Italy. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Its simple almost provocatively simple. Spaghettoni [thick spaghetti], butter and beer yeast. When it comes to the table its almost monochrome between pure white and lightly brown-ish in colour. The title of the dish may be simple, but of course its not just one butter, but a blend of three, and the beer has been spread out and cooked in the oven on a very gentle temperature until it solidifies. You have totally al dente spaghetti, the very savoury, milky presence of the butter, the suggestion of the crunchiness of the yeast that adds a dose of acidity, and a gently insinuating touch of caramelisation. Its immediately recognisable comfort food that also pushes the boundaries. Its an instant classic, something I fear the chef, Riccardo Camanini, will have on his shoulders for many years to come. You cannot add anything else, because you would destroy the balance, the subtle dialogue between these three major ingredients. And if you take something out, it falls apart. For me, thats the definition of a dish, or a piece of art. You eat it in three bites, but it stays with you for a really long time.
Porra de naranja at Arte de Cozina, Málaga, Spain
Samantha Clark Chef and co-owner, Moro, Morito, London
We have a house near Granada and we decided to do a detour and fly into Málaga to try a restaurant, Arte de Cozina, that one of our chefs had told us about. The standout dishes were porra de naranja and kids sweetbreads. Porras are the precursors to gazpachos but made with fewer ingredients sometimes just bread or dried fava beans, garlic, olive oil and water. This one was scented with orange. The texture was smooth and creamy, the flavour subtle with orange, a fruity olive oil and perhaps a touch of vinegar. Topped with chopped almonds for crunch and salty jamón to balance the sweetness, it was nectar.
Adidas nigiri at Sawada, Tokyo
Enrique Olvera Chef-patron, Pujol, Mexico City
Sawada is a tiny two-Michelin-star sushi bar with only six chairs, where the owner, Koji Sawada, and his wife are the only ones taking care of every aspect of the entire omakase. It was a tuna fish nigiri, but a totally different cut, between the chutoro (belly area) and the otoro, with so much fat it actually melted in your mouth. It was named by Sawada as the three lines of fat form an Adidas appearance, like the three lines of the sport brand. The thing that inspired me the most was to see Sawada doing such an unusual thing but with so much respect for his culture. Innovating from tradition, applying a subtle change or improvement. You can still do new things that honour your roots.
Bonnat Madagascar chocolate bar
David Williams The Observer wine writer
As someone with expensive tastes in wine and whisky (professional hazard) and cheese (just plain greed), Ive been wary of developing an addiction to posh bean to bar chocolate. The chocolate penny finally dropped with a bar made by French artisans Bonnat from beans sourced in Madagascar. A light, fruity, elegant creamy style described as the pinot noir of chocolate, it had me using words Id usually reserve for wine: balance, texture, and most of all, length (the taste lasted for minutes).
Buttermilk chicken at the Clove Club, London
Thomasina Miers Wahaca founder, cookery writer
For my mothers birthday at the end of January we took her to the Clove Club. They blew us away with the food. We had the buttermilk chicken, consommé and 100-year-old madeira, and an Orkney scallop and orange dish that was so light. Its exceptional how much they make from scratch: the charcuterie, the butter, the bread My mother was blown away. Her eyes were shining like a seven-year-olds at Christmas.
Jamón from Barcelona
Angela Hartnett Chef-patron, Murano, Cafe Murano
I bought a jamón from Joan La Llar del Pernil, brought it back to London and had a jamón party in my garden. I invited Nieves [Barragán] and José [Pizzaro] over, and some of my chefs; I thought Id get everyone round at 2pm and theyd be gone by 8pm, but, of course, everyone was there until two in the morning. Weve since gone back to Barcelona and bought another jamón.
Squat lobster from the Firth of Clyde
Ben Reade Co-founder, Edinburgh Food Studio, Edinburgh
The most delicious thing I ate this year was a surprise gift of squat lobsters from a fisherman on the Firth of the Clyde called Ian Wightman. Id ordered a load of langoustines [for a festival I was cooking at in North Ayrshire] and he gave us these as a bonus. We cooked them up the top of a glen over an oak fire, with white wine, butter and some nutmeg. They are one of the sweetest, most delicious meats ever, but not many people use them in fact, most fishermen throw them back because theyre so small and they have horrible shells that cut into your fingers when youre opening them. But theyre really worth the hassle, and the less you do when youre cooking them the better.
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The best food they ate in 2015
Kebabs in Istanbul, sea urchins in County Cork, a sensational lobster pasta in London: top chefs and food writers share their favourite meals this year
Çiya Sofrasi and Kadiköy market, Istanbul
René Redzepi Chef-patron, Noma, Copenhagen
Walking through Kadiköy market in Istanbul you see dried aubergines hanging from stalls, dried chilli peppers and fresh dürüm, and Turkish tea being poured all throughout. You hear street merchants calling out their catch of the day, maybe a bag of sardines, turbot from the Black Sea or a kilo of mussels. I was there en route to Çiya, in the heart of this picturesque market. Çiya to me embodies the perfect restaurant: full of tradition but not afraid of innovating, with a generous and welcoming space. The meal is a cornucopia of all there is to offer from Anatolia lamb stewed with dried cherries, chopped parsley with vinegar, rice cooked with raisins and fistfuls of whole spices… I would happily put myself on a plane just to go and have lunch there on a beautiful spring day.
Pickled herring platter at Russ & Daughters, New York
Yotam Ottolenghi Chef and food writer
It was a platter of pickled herring fillets with three sauce options on the side cream, mustard and curry along with schmaltz herring fillets and then matjes herring fillets. In the centre were pickled onions, roll mops and a beet and herring salad. I had it for breakfast, around 11am, and it left a sweet (albeit fishy) taste in my mouth for the next few days.
I love the cafe, which opened last year and is strongly modelled on the long-established store. Sardines, chubs, rugelach, pickles, boxes of matzo, halva sold by the block, rye bread to blow your socks off, Bloody Marys: these are the flavours which define New York for me.
Idiazábal cheese, Urbia mountains, Spain
Elena Arzak Chef-patron, Arzak, San Sebastián
This spring I made an idiazábal cheese with a shepherd in the Urbia mountains in the Basque country. We used natural rennet which the shepherd made from the stomach of a latxa lamb. When I went to pick my cheese up this autumn (after the ageing process) it had all the rich true flavour of the milk, but you could also sense the environment in which the mother had grazed. I could close my eyes and imagine myself on that windswept mountain top. The fact I made it heightened the flavour. I ate it with my family, either by itself or with walnuts, quince jelly and apple jelly.
Dashi-simmered asparagus, tofu and egg at Koya, London
Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich Chef-owners, Honey & Co, London
We went to Koya a couple of days before it closed and had an amazing goodbye meal. The asparagus and tofu dish was so delicious, we ordered another for dessert. It had those really fat English asparagus, blanched and chargrilled, with tofu, bonito flakes and a dashi broth. It was so nicely balanced and full of flavour. The next day, Itamar went back with our head chef to eat it all over again. The food in those last days of Koya felt very organic, more like dishes Junya [Yamasaki, the head chef] would make at home than normal restaurant stuff.
Sea urchins from County Cork
Jacob Kenedy Chef-patron, Bocca di Lupo, London
From now until February or March, you can get amazing sea urchins from Ireland. I had my first one last week and it was mindbogglingly good. You can get warm-water sea urchins, which tend to be bigger and more impressive-looking, all year round, but they are much less intensely flavoured. The Irish ones mine came from John Chamberlain in Dunmanus Bay, Co Cork have an enveloping fishy flavour. Theyre wonderful stirred through pasta or with sushi, but I prefer them on their own with just a tiny squeeze of lemon. You slice them open, clean out the gunky stuff, rinse them in sea water and scoop out the eggs with a teaspoon. It makes you realise how amazing nature is, and how little we should mess with our food.
Sea-salt ice cream in Dingle, County Kerry
James Jocky Petrie Group executive development chef, Gordon Ramsay Group
In Dingle this summer, during a chowder competition with lots of Guinness and live music, I tried a sea-salt ice cream at Murphys. It was one of those things that makes you go, damn, why didnt I think of that? Everyone loves salted caramel, but this is different: just plain ice cream with sea salt. It sounds odd but it really works: the sweetness of the sugar balances the salty character. Its almost savoury but not quite its just a sweet salt. People come from miles around to eat this ice cream.
Lamb köfte at Sultanahmet Köftecisi, Istanbul
Karam Sethi Chef-patron, Gymkhana, Trishna, London
I went to Istanbul for the first time this year and ate at a place called Sultanahmet Köftecisi. After visiting the Blue Mosque nearby, we saw the big queue outside and decided to find out what was going on. They specialise in lamb köftes grilled very simply over charcoal and served with bread, pickled chillies and their house chilli paste. We ordered one and ended up having six. Its tough to find something so succulent and juicy and flavourful. I think its down to the quality and fat content of the meat, and that they serve them hot off the grill, so you can still taste the charcoal. Theyve mastered the recipe over years and years. Its the ultimate kebab.
Yuzu ramen at Afuri, Tokyo. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Yuzu ramen at Afuri, Tokyo
Brett Redman Chef-owner, The Richmond, Elliots, Jidori, London
On a research visit to Tokyo at the start of the year, I had a yuzu shio-ramen at a place called Afuri in the basement of a shopping centre in Roppongi Hills. Im not an aficionado but it was the best ramen Ive ever had. They make it with chicken stock, which makes it much lighter than the rich, milky tonkotsu ramen were used to in London. The addition of fresh yuzu is ingenious: the intensity and fragrance of yuzu peel blasts all the way through the stock. It left my head spinning: how do you get so much flavour into this bowl?
Khao chae at Lai Rod, Bangkok
Fuchsia Dunlop Food writer
I was going to recommend a meal at the Dragon Well Manor restaurant in Hangzhou every time I go there its the best meal of the year but then I had something totally amazing today in Bangkok. I was in Thailand for the first time and the food blogger The Skinny Bib recommended I go to an old-school Thai restaurant called Lai Rod. The standout from quite a long lunch was a dish called khao chae: grains of rice in iced water with flower petals, perfumed with candle smoke. It was served with a platter of deep-fried relishes green chilli stuffed with pork, fish floss flavoured with coconut, caramelised beef and some salted radish with a little egg yolk and beautifully cut pieces of green mango, cucumber and a crunchy yellow root with a remarkable taste. The combination of the sweet, salty and umami flavours from the relishes and the smoky, perfumed rice soup was a revelation.
Grilled shrimps at Sa Foradada, Mallorca
Tomos Parry Head chef, Kitty Fishers, London
I went to this fantastic cliffside restaurant this summer. The whole experience is pretty special: you park your car, jump over a fence (which stays closed to keep wild donkeys in) and walk for half an hour through fields with fig trees and goats. The trek is worth it for the food and the view youre looking out over the bay where they catch most of your dinner. I particularly liked the shrimp, cooked very simply over a grill with wood from the trees around the restaurant. A lot of the skill in grilling lies in restraint, and these shrimp were barely cooked, so you can still taste the sea without being overpowered by the wood.
Grilled shrimps at Sa Foradada, Mallorca. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Unpasteurised cream from Ottinge Court Farm, Kent
Stephen Harris Chef-patron, The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
Im slightly obsessed with dairy produce and this year Ive started buying unpasteurised cream from Ottinge Court Farm near Folkestone. We hadnt been able to get it at the restaurant for about five years because the testing required for unpasteurised milk has become prohibitively expensive for most farms. The difference is just incredible. The pasteurisation process wipes out all the interesting things. In this, I can taste a hint of flowers and a rosewater tone. Theres a slight dung-y taste, which some people find offputting but I really like. You know it has come from a cow as opposed to a goat or a sheep, because it smells a bit like when you get near cows. Ive been trying it out with a warm chocolate mousse and a tiny bit of salt and thats probably the best thing Ive tasted all year.
Iio Jozos fujisu vinegar, Japan
James Lowe Head chef, Lyles, London
In February I visited Iio Jozo, a vinegar-maker outside Kyoto which has been producing rice vinegar for 120 years. They oversee all the parts of the process themselves: they brew their own sake and have local farmers growing the organic rice for them. One thing they do is collect the sake lees the fermented rice left over after filtering and pile it into big wooden barrels to age for up to 10 years. It starts out as a white, pure-looking paste but by year ten its black like treacle. The vinegar he makes from it is incredible. He gave me a litre bottle and, at first, I tried to use it sparingly, but I ended up putting it on lots of things at the restaurant. It was gone within a week.
Pasta al forno at La Cantinetta, Barolo, Italy
Sam Harris Chef-patron, Zucca, London
Ive been eating at La Cantinetta since I started going to Piedmont 15 years ago its a very simple little trattoria run by two brothers but it was the first time Id had this dish. They ran it as a special and it was amazing a perfect baked pasta. Pasta al forno is basically lasagne, though the woman serving us insisted there was a difference. This one was quite firm and didnt collapse all over the plate, which is a good thing. There were loads of layers we counted about 15 and a very scant amount of béchamel and meat ragu, but just the right amount. The seasoning was bang on, it was really crisp on the top. Ive had millions of lasagnes over the years, but this blew my head off.
Ochazuke at Ishikawa, Tokyo
Isaac McHale Head chef, the Clove Club, London
Ochazuke is a dish of rice, a few bits to sprinkle on top seaweed, toasted things, salmon eggs, shiso, whatever you have with green tea or dashi poured over it, a Japanese late-night fridge buffet. The fresh rice, the cornerstone of a Japanese meal, was a revelation. It was fragrant, just chewy, almost al dente and made me really pay attention to the rice for the rest of our trip. Ive been reading about ochazuke in Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art for 18 years and dreaming of a Scottish version, with Assam tea and pheasant broth over barley. To be served one in one of the best restaurants in Japan, made my heart sing.
Porcini in Tuscany
Ruth Rogers Chef and co-founder, the River Café, London
The family, around 20 of us, go to Tuscany every summer, near Monte Amiata. This year we were there when the first porcini were found. Our gardener brought them for us as a surprise, then I roasted them whole with a bit of garlic and thyme, two hours after they were picked. We put them in the oven for a long time, almost an hour, then ate them with nothing else on the plate. It was the setting as much as the flavour; all of us being there together, the excitement of them arriving. It was late August, so it felt like a farewell to summer and the beginning of autumn.
Lobster pasta at Hedone, London
Nathan Outlaw Chef-patron, Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Port Isaac, Cornwall
A lot of people told me Hedone was good, but the lobster pasta was the best thing Ive ever eaten in England, and Ive eaten a lot of food in England. It wasnt so much the cooking as the ingredients. They kill all their seafood fresh to order and that makes all the difference. You dont get a menu. If you ask Mikael [Jonsson] for one, he says hell send it, but never does. But from what I can gather he took the coral from the lobster and put it into the bisque, which was slightly aerated. The pasta was just a flat sheet, almost like lasagna, and cooked perfectly. Its refreshing to see a chef sticking to his guns and cooking the best produce he can find. The British restaurant scene is much newer than in France or Spain or Italy, and I dont think weve scratched the surface of whats possible in our own country, with our own ingredients.
Sushi at Masa, New York
Hélène Darroze Chef cuisinière, Hélène Darroze at the Connaught, London
I was in New York with my chefs to cook a special dinner and we went to Masa. Its not the kind of place you can go every day its really expensive but it was an experience. You eat at the counter, and they make everything à la minute, right in front of you. The best thing was a piece where the chef took a kind of white membrane of the tuna not the the meat itself and wove it over a piece of rice into a piece of sushi. The rice was a little warm. It was so surprising: very smooth to eat but then the flavour of the tuna was like an explosion in the mouth. Just incredible.
Sushi at Masa, New York. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Pizza at Mission Chinese, New York
Lee Tiernan Chef-owner, Black Axe Mangal, London
I was scared about opening our new restaurant, and Danny Bowien invited me over to spend a few days at Mission Chinese in New York. I always feel calm around Danny. He has a lot on his plate but he just deals with it. The best thing I ate was a cheese and tomato pizza with mapo tofu on top, cooked in their wood oven. The base is made to a Tartine bread recipe, then the tofu is just rolled around on top. Its quite unusual to have a cheese and tomato DOP pizza on a Chinese restaurant menu, but nothings going to stop those guys doing what they want. I think about that pizza every day. I wish I was eating it right now, in fact.
Roast lamb in Segovia, Spain
Nieves Barragán Executive chef, Barrafina, London
When I went to Segovia, one hour north of Madrid, I went to José MarÃa, a family place where they make the best roast mixed lamb on the wood fire. There were six of us; it was a four-hour lunch. We had two things: the lamb, which came with roast kidneys, and the suckling pig, with amazing roast potatoes and grilled peppers on the side. It was stunning: juicy, crisp It sounds quite English, but the centre of Spain is like this, its very traditional all roasts. Their oven is huge, so beautiful half the size of Barrafina. I would love to have something like that in London.
Tarte tatin in Lamotte-Beuvron, France
Shuko Oda Head chef, Koya Bar, London
We visited Lamotte-Beuvron, an hour or two from Paris, where tarte tatin is originally from. We went to the local bakery and bought the tarte tatin there. I dont normally have a sweet tooth but it was absolutely beautiful. It was a nothing-special-but-everything-about-it-was-special type of thing.
Goats curd mousse at Lyles, London
Anissa Helou Food writer
Lyles has been my favourite restaurant more or less since it opened, and a few months ago I took two young Qatari friends for dinner as I wanted them to taste James Lowes cooking. It was a perfect meal, ending with an amazing goats curd mousse. It was sensational: a little bowl with the mousse on the bottom, covered by an apple granita made with estivale apples and sorrel. The apples werent peeled so the flavour was incredibly intense but not too sweet. And then there was this beautiful crunchy cracker a very, very thin sheet made with apple, sugar and star anise. The textures were incredible: creamy, icy and then crackly. My friends loved it.
Pizza at Gjusta, Los Angeles
Claire Ptak Owner, Violet Bakery, London
The thing thats really been on my mind is this pizza we had in Los Angeles at Gjusta [a bakery and café]. It was one of the best, most perfectly seasoned, chewy, crunchy, doughy things Ive ever eaten. Ive been dreaming about it. Its more like pizza bianca that you get in Rome, but thinner. They make it in big rectangular sheet pans. Really salty and oily, and stretched out. The one we ate had tomatoes, red onion, little bits of ricotta, an egg, and just oil and salt. It was transcendent.
Pizza at Gjusta, Los Angeles. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Grouse from Scotland
Blanche Vaughan Cook and food writer
I was standing on a moor in mid-September just when the heather is in flower and I shot a grouse. I plucked it myself, wrapped it up and took it back on the train. Its a nice thing to be able to cook for other people. I made a recipe I learned at the River Café: you make a bruschetta with roast tomatoes on top, slosh in red wine so it soaks into the bread, then you brown the bird and roast it on top of the bruschetta so all the juices seep in.
Burger at the Four Seasons, New York
Fergus Henderson Co-owner, St John, London
A perfect burger at the Four Seasons bar in the Seagram Building in New York. I had a dry martini, which is a good way to start lunch, and a very nice pinot noir to wash it down. A real treat. It was a classic burger but its the setting: its a beautiful room, a special place. They have chainmail on the windows, which shimmers. The bar has amazing spikes hanging above it, so everything they serve could be the last thing you ever eat or drink before a spike runs you through, which adds a certain twist to the whole thing.
Grilled cauliflower at Hearth, New York
Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley Cookery writers
In September we went to Hearth in New York. They offered us a seat at the chefs pass (directly in front of the kitchen), where we enjoyed the most incredible six-course tasting menu right at the heart of all the action. The atmosphere was electric, the food was incredible the grilled cauliflower with sunflower seeds and capers, and grilled beef neck were especially memorable and typical of chef Marco Canoras food philosophy. His rustic, home-style cooking champions seasonal produce, nose-to-tail eating and a waste not, want not attitude.
Spaghettoni at Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda, Italy
Andrea Petrini Food writer, founder of Gelinaz!
Spaghettoni at Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda, Italy. Illustration: Nick Shepherd
Its simple almost provocatively simple. Spaghettoni [thick spaghetti], butter and beer yeast. When it comes to the table its almost monochrome between pure white and lightly brown-ish in colour. The title of the dish may be simple, but of course its not just one butter, but a blend of three, and the beer has been spread out and cooked in the oven on a very gentle temperature until it solidifies. You have totally al dente spaghetti, the very savoury, milky presence of the butter, the suggestion of the crunchiness of the yeast that adds a dose of acidity, and a gently insinuating touch of caramelisation. Its immediately recognisable comfort food that also pushes the boundaries. Its an instant classic, something I fear the chef, Riccardo Camanini, will have on his shoulders for many years to come. You cannot add anything else, because you would destroy the balance, the subtle dialogue between these three major ingredients. And if you take something out, it falls apart. For me, thats the definition of a dish, or a piece of art. You eat it in three bites, but it stays with you for a really long time.
Porra de naranja at Arte de Cozina, Málaga, Spain
Samantha Clark Chef and co-owner, Moro, Morito, London
We have a house near Granada and we decided to do a detour and fly into Málaga to try a restaurant, Arte de Cozina, that one of our chefs had told us about. The standout dishes were porra de naranja and kids sweetbreads. Porras are the precursors to gazpachos but made with fewer ingredients sometimes just bread or dried fava beans, garlic, olive oil and water. This one was scented with orange. The texture was smooth and creamy, the flavour subtle with orange, a fruity olive oil and perhaps a touch of vinegar. Topped with chopped almonds for crunch and salty jamón to balance the sweetness, it was nectar.
Adidas nigiri at Sawada, Tokyo
Enrique Olvera Chef-patron, Pujol, Mexico City
Sawada is a tiny two-Michelin-star sushi bar with only six chairs, where the owner, Koji Sawada, and his wife are the only ones taking care of every aspect of the entire omakase. It was a tuna fish nigiri, but a totally different cut, between the chutoro (belly area) and the otoro, with so much fat it actually melted in your mouth. It was named by Sawada as the three lines of fat form an Adidas appearance, like the three lines of the sport brand. The thing that inspired me the most was to see Sawada doing such an unusual thing but with so much respect for his culture. Innovating from tradition, applying a subtle change or improvement. You can still do new things that honour your roots.
Bonnat Madagascar chocolate bar
David Williams The Observer wine writer
As someone with expensive tastes in wine and whisky (professional hazard) and cheese (just plain greed), Ive been wary of developing an addiction to posh bean to bar chocolate. The chocolate penny finally dropped with a bar made by French artisans Bonnat from beans sourced in Madagascar. A light, fruity, elegant creamy style described as the pinot noir of chocolate, it had me using words Id usually reserve for wine: balance, texture, and most of all, length (the taste lasted for minutes).
Buttermilk chicken at the Clove Club, London
Thomasina Miers Wahaca founder, cookery writer
For my mothers birthday at the end of January we took her to the Clove Club. They blew us away with the food. We had the buttermilk chicken, consommé and 100-year-old madeira, and an Orkney scallop and orange dish that was so light. Its exceptional how much they make from scratch: the charcuterie, the butter, the bread My mother was blown away. Her eyes were shining like a seven-year-olds at Christmas.
Jamón from Barcelona
Angela Hartnett Chef-patron, Murano, Cafe Murano
I bought a jamón from Joan La Llar del Pernil, brought it back to London and had a jamón party in my garden. I invited Nieves [Barragán] and José [Pizzaro] over, and some of my chefs; I thought Id get everyone round at 2pm and theyd be gone by 8pm, but, of course, everyone was there until two in the morning. Weve since gone back to Barcelona and bought another jamón.
Squat lobster from the Firth of Clyde
Ben Reade Co-founder, Edinburgh Food Studio, Edinburgh
The most delicious thing I ate this year was a surprise gift of squat lobsters from a fisherman on the Firth of the Clyde called Ian Wightman. Id ordered a load of langoustines [for a festival I was cooking at in North Ayrshire] and he gave us these as a bonus. We cooked them up the top of a glen over an oak fire, with white wine, butter and some nutmeg. They are one of the sweetest, most delicious meats ever, but not many people use them in fact, most fishermen throw them back because theyre so small and they have horrible shells that cut into your fingers when youre opening them. But theyre really worth the hassle, and the less you do when youre cooking them the better.
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New Beginnings: Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie recipe, seasonal cleansing, and the Litha Lifestyle blog!
Welcome to the Litha Lifestyle blog, where I will share my perspectives on health and nutrition, helping to support you on your journey!
Today I will be making my first blog post all about syncing up our health goals with the power of the new season, and providing my Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie recipe that I guarantee will help you look and feel better in just five days! So if you start drinking it on Monday morning, you’ll have clearer skin, a flatter tummy and increased calmness and energy right in time for the weekend :)
You can scroll down to find the recipe, but first I’d like to empower you with the knowledge of why each of its ingredients are there, and how they tie into overall health strategies that take advantage of the changes taking place in nature during the spring. I personally have always found that the more I understand how different foods and lifestyle practices serve me (or not), the easier it becomes to make the best choices.
Spring is a natural time of cleansing, balancing and renewal that has filtered into our culture and consciousness. For example, “spring cleaning” one’s home is a standard practice for many, as is fasting (Lent, 6th March - 18th April 2019) and exchanging eggs (Easter, 21st April 2019). Why eggs? According to Professor Ronald Hutton, a historian at Bristol University, “The bird’s egg has always been one of the most ubiquitous human symbols of new life in general and spring in particular.” Eggs have been used as Easter gifts in England since at least the Thirteenth Century (Hutton, Ronald: The Stations of the Sun, p. 198, Oxford University Press 2001). According to the European Food Information Council, the mineral chromium, found in egg yolk, is used by the body to control blood sugar levels and may help with weight loss (EUFIC: Chromium in the diet, 1st December 2008. Available here).
At this time of year, the days are getting noticeably lighter, plants and trees are visibly renewing, animals are emerging from hibernation, and you may naturally feel a desire to follow suit!
“Of one thing alone it is possible to be confident; that, although the timing of the feast of Resurrection [Easter] was dictated by historial accident, it could not have fallen at a more appropriate point of the European calendar, when so much in nature conduced to a mood of celebration and renewal.” (Hutton, 2001, p. 181).
You may want to cultivate and harness this naturally available energy and direct it towards your goals, whether they be related to weight loss, career, relationships or any other area of your life you feel drawn to focus on, “big” or “small”. Here are some great ways to do it!
Spring clean your cupboards, fridge and freezer! Get rid of those musty old spices that have gone past their BBE date, white flour, leftover takeout, sugary drinks and cereals, pasteurised dairy, canned drinks (including alcohol), microwave meals, crisps, processed meats and everything you know isn’t serving you anymore. Clean the fridge and cupboards themselves with non-toxic products such as Ecover and defrost your freezer. This is a particularly useful job to save for when you feel you are about to react to stress with emotional eating, because it can give you space to ground, centre and get back in touch with your true needs at that moment.
Start your day with a big mug of warm water with the juice of half a lemon squeezed in to rehydrate and support your weight loss and skin tone with a healthy liver, followed by the Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie (recipe below). This is a natural time of year to cleanse and lighten your diet, after enjoying lots of hot, comforting foods during the cold and darkness of winter. Making the smoothie the night before and storing it in the fridge makes making the right choice at breakfast time a doddle ;)
Try to use less oils in your cooking and on your salads for a few weeks and incorporating more fresh fruit and vegetables into your daily routine, such as the Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie, a big green salad sprinkled with cleansing unfiltered raw apple cider vinegar for lunch, and your favourite sprouts sprinkled over your dinner, with fresh fruit and veggie stick snacks whenever you get peckish between meals. Even substituting your mid-morning cookie for a mid-morning banana will make a difference you can feel in your body and energy levels- so try it!
Sprouting seeds perhaps capture the energy of this season better than any other food, and are bursting with vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. Add them to anything and everything!
Trim your hair to encourage healthy regrowth. If you don’t have a green salon nearby, you can bring your own non-toxic shampoo and conditioner to the salon with you, and simply ask them not to use styling products.
Exfoliate the dead skin of winter away by mixing a handful of finely ground salt into your shower gel, and massaging it into your body in circular motions, beginning at your feet and working up, making more room for new cells. Moisturise afterwards with everyone’s favourite- raw coconut oil.
Gently help to purge your body of toxins by sweating it out in a sauna or going for a hard hike or bike ride, and increasing your water intake.
Get a massage and get comfortable! Wearing tight, restrictive clothing can impede lympahtic drainage, so slip into some lighter, more comfortable and breathable clothes- perhaps in brighter colours than you were drawn to over winter- and book yourself in for a vigororous Swedish massage.
Try taking a quality magnesium oxide supplement such as Mag07 right before bed every night. As you may have gathered from point 6, cleansing is about what comes out of your body as well as what you put into it. Without putting too fine a point on it, if you struggle to go to the bathroom in the morning or are only moving your bowels once a day, your body is asking for help. You really don’t want to be holding onto that waste and stagnation any longer! The magnesium in Mag07 acts as a vehicle to deliver nascent oxygen to your bowel, helping it to excrete more efficiently. It is non-addictive, much gentler on your system that laxative herbs like senna, and cheaper than colonic hydrotherapy.
You may naturally have “hibernated” in front of the television or over your device during the winter evenings, so start being more choosy with how you spend your spare time. Take time out from the electronic devices to write your goals in your journal, prioritise them, and consider sensibly how to take steps towards achieving them. There’s never a bad time to do this, but right now, the very power of the season itself is behind you- so go for it!
Getting your mornings in order with a big mug of warm/ hot water with lemon juice followed by the Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie is a perfect first step to get started on your own springtime cleanse. Here’s a breakdown of all the cleansing and nurturing ingredients that make it such a special smoothie!
The extra water flushes out impurities by improving the function of all your organs, including your skin; the vitamin C-rich lemon juice supports your liver function, which includes breaking down fat; the darker a leafy green is, the more nutritious it is, so kale is a “superfood” but we can skip the Iceberg lettuce; celery, pineapple, coriander and parsley are all natural diuretics that help to flush out water weight, giving you a flatter tummy and a better defined chin and cheekbones; avocados are a wholefoods source of “good” fats and fibre that will help keep you feeling full and satisfied until lunchtime; ginger promotes circulation of the blood and lymph, which assists toxins in being satisfactorily processed; aloe vera juice is rich in beta-carotene and vitamins C and E, which is why it is so often found in face cream, and also lubricates your intestines, improving digestion and elimination.
A good breakfast smoothie has a ratio of about 75% greens to 25% of fruit, which gives it a slight natural sweetness. This balance prevents bloodsugar spikes and crashes associated with pure fruit smoothies, but is more palatable and nutritious than a 100% vegetable smoothie. This balance also gives the smoothie its beautiful colour :)
Spring Clean Green Breakfast Smoothie (serves 2)
🌊 500ml water (preferably distilled) 🍋 Juice of 1/2 lemon 🍃 1 lettuce (anything except Iceberg) 🌱 3 sticks of celery 🥑 1 avo (frozen is fine) 🍍 1/2 pineapple, peeled and chopped (frozen is fine) 🍌 1 banana (frozen banana gives the smoothie a creamier consistency) 🍃 Kale, roughly chopped or shredded by hand, stalks removed (black kale gives a great colour but ordinary curly kale works fine)
Optional extras, if you like the taste:
✨ Thumb-size piece of ginger root ✨ 3 shots pure aloe vera juice ✨ Small handful fresh coriander and half that amount again of fresh parsley ✨ Handful sprouts, e.g. alfalfa
1. Roughly blend everything except the kale together to make room in the jug.
2. Top up the jug with the kale.
3. Blend thoroughly until smooth and serve!
The Green Breakfast Smoothie keeps well in the fridge for a couple of days, so you can make batches. If you or your kids find the taste too "green" or "grassy" at first, trying substituting fresh spinach for the kale, or adding an extra banana to the mix 🍌 You can even blend in some stevia to sweeten it some more, if you’re really struggling, but avoid adding actual sugar such as honey or maple syrup as this will upset the precious balance of your blood sugar levels.
The Spring Equinox is just before 10pm on 20th March 2019. Why not implement some of these “spring clean” strategies today, and see how different you look and feel by then- the point between winter and summer when day and night are in perfect balance (equinox means the time of equal day and night, when night and day are of exactly 12 hours each). We can use that energy to bring better balance into our bodies and souls.
#raw#rawtill4#plantbased#vegetarian#wellness#smoothie#recipe#smoothierecipe#detox#cleanse#juicecleanse#greensmoothie#naturalweightloss#weightloss#lithalifestyle
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Everything you've ever wanted to know about ice cream
Scoop gelato is made in a somewhat various means to soft which makes it possible for the manufacturer to use a mouth watering series of flavours and also various structures by including what we in the profession phone call 'additions' which are the little bits of fruit, delicious chocolate, cookie etc that are combined in to the gelato when it is created you to take pleasure in when you consume it.
The 2nd major kind is what we in the profession telephone call 'difficult' yet which is understood by numerous satisfied clients as scooped being functioned as it is by being dug of a bathtub or container as well as overdid to a crunchy cone.
However not also soft gelato is just the same as you will certainly see by circumnavigating the nation where in some locations it is brilliant as well as white like the colour of milk as well as in others it is a lot more gold like the colour of butter or abundant lotion. It is not just the colour that varies as specific manufacturers select the sort of flavour they desire with some a little sweeter than others or having a certain vanilla preference.
So what are the various sorts of gelato?
The initial primary kind is what we in the gelato profession phone call 'soft' yet which is recognized to numerous pleased consumers as perhaps 'Mr Whippy' or 'Mr Softee' and also is frequently functioned as a '99' in a crisp cone total with a little stick of abundant, half-cracked delicious chocolate.
Is all gelato the very same?
In one really crucial means all gelato coincide as they are all stunning as well as are assured to bring a smile to your face, yet simply think of it momentarily, there are numerous, several sorts of items all called gelato yet appearance, really feel as well as taste really various to each other.
So are all gelato the exact same? Definitely not!
They likewise utilize procedures as well as equipment that require the 'human touch' be it in picking and also blending the components or maintaining a close eye on the cold to make certain the gelato is of the best, finest feasible.
A lot of the craftsmen gelato manufacturers do not market their items with the high road grocery stores yet favor to market via smaller sized electrical outlets such as ranch stores, expert gelato parlours, neighborhood sellers, resorts as well as dining establishments.
For a lot of artisan gelato manufacturers the components consist of milk, eggs, butter and also lotion which are combined with each other as well as blended to make a light, melt-in-the-mouth structure all of us like.
Throughout the spinning procedure the temperature level of the mix is reduced to in between -2 ° C as well as -7 ° C and also it is likewise at this phase that the craftsmen manufacturer might include items of fruit, toffee, cookie or nuts etc to finish the dish.
Craftsmen manufacturers have the ability to be 'hands on' as they make smaller sized sets of gelato that will certainly be offered as well as consumed in as brief a time as feasible as 'fresh' gelato is the most effective around.
Where can I discover Craftsmen gelato?
The easy solution to this is anywhere and also all over yet you might require to look a little closer to identify it.
A lot of the moment you might not identify the name of the manufacturer however one suggestion is to consider the manufacturers deal with to see just how regional they are to you and also at the cost as premium, craftsmen gelato does set you back a little bit much more however provides terrific worth for cash.
Active ingredients arranged, the procedure can start.
The last of the procedure is getting it to you whether by a gelato van, in a parlour or your neighborhood store, club, resort or dining establishment simply embed and also appreciate!
What is Craftsmen gelato?
Fairly just, craftsmen gelato is gelato made by a craftsmen which the thesaurus interpretation of craftsmen being a 'experienced artisan'. Diving a little bit deeper in to the thesaurus informs us that a crafts-person is some one that makes points skilfully by hand.
This done, the gelato is placed in to a container which might be a private bathtub or a household pack and even a 'Napoli' tray to be happily presented in an open fridge freezer closet in a gelato parlour or store, and after that it's off to the cool area where the gelato is 'solidified' at a bone cooling temperature level of -28 ° C.
Although now-a-days, gelato manufacturers do not dive their hands in to a dish to make their gelato, the craftsmen manufacturers absolutely do take an extremely 'hands on' method making use of all the abilities that numerous have actually gained from numerous, several years making gelato with dishes and also methods usually passed on from one generation to the following.
The initial stage at the same time is to choose the active ingredients consisting of the milk which in a lot of cases is created by their very own cows or purchased from regional farmers and also vendors. The exact same treatment is taken control of the various other components consisting of the flavours and also additions which are commonly provided by expert firms that resource their resources from all over the world.
Lastly, if you are trying to find craftsmen gelato in your location after that why not call the Gelato Partnership on 01332 203333 and also we will certainly guide you in the best instructions or you can make use of 'Locate a Gelato Parlour' on top of this page.
There are about 1,000 craftsmen gelato manufacturers throughout the UK as well as Ireland from the Network Islands to the Shetlands and all factors north, southern, eastern and also west.
Exactly how is craftsmen gelato made?
Along with the experience as well as ability of the craftsmen manufacturer, fantastic gelato starts with wonderful active ingredients.
The following action is to spin the mix to assimilate some air. It might appear unusual that gelato has air in it yet if it really did not it would certainly appear of the fridge freezer like and also ice and also not such as gelato in all. The quantity of air additionally differs from manufacturer to manufacturer and also from dish to dish however it is constantly included in generate the 'lick-able' reward all of us like.
The initial step is blending the components to the craftsmen manufacturers possess dish prior to being pasteurised. This entails home heating the blend to exterminate unsafe microorganisms prior to the mix is cooled down as rapidly as feasible to a temperature level of in between 0 ° C as well as -4 ° C for at the very least 4 hrs as well as typically a lot longer specifically as the flavours are included at this phase.
Quit Me and also Purchase One!
Gelato Factoids Individuals of Scotland and also Northern Ireland consume even more gelato typically than those in England and also Wales. Typically, everyone in the UK consumes 9 litres of gelato yearly; seems a great deal however the Scandinavians consume extra with the Americans covering the graph at 20 litres each year! Studies have actually revealed that males are most likely to select gelato as a treat than ladies. Gelato Sundaes were developed when it came to be prohibited to offer gelato with flavoured soft drink on a Sunday in the American community of Evanston throughout the late 19th century. Some investors obtained round it by offering it with syrup rather, calling it an 'Gelato Sunday' as well as at some point changing the last 'y' with an 'e' to prevent disturbing spiritual leaders The majority of gelato consists of even more milk healthy protein weight for weight than exists in milk itself Today most gelato include just about 5% fat and also a lot of calcium, minerals and also vitamins While lots of people are just knowledgeable about a handful of gelato firms there more than 1,000 in the U.K. creating thousands of flavours. In spite of this reality, vanilla stays the much-loved being selected 9 breaks of 10. Today increasingly more gelato have mouth-watering flavours consisting of Smoked Bacon and also Egg, Black Pepper, Chilli and also Black Pudding any kind of lots used beer such as Newcastle Brown! The Japanese additionally have steed meat as well as the Koreans Eco-friendly Tea ... wonderful! If you just take a couple of scoops type a huge bathtub of gelato, safeguard the high quality of the gelato by protecting against air reaching it by scrunching up a couple of items of greaseproof paper as well as placed these in addition to the gelato prior to changing the cover.
Ice crystals in gelato reveal that it has actually been terribly maintained ie. it has actually been permitted to thaw and afterwards been refrozen. If you spot ice crystals you need to toss the gelato away as well as get even more.
Every person enjoys gelato as well as lots of people hold a comparable love for the terrific British custom, the gelato van; yet just how as well as when did this means of offering gelato start and also just how has it established throughout the years?
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13 Keto-Friendly Fiber Foods
While some keto or low-carb proponents claim fiber is useless at best and actively harmful at worst, I come down on the side that says fiber is probably helpful for most people. Some folks have persistently better responses to low- or no-fiber keto diets, and I won’t argue with that—I’ve seen it happen and I’ve read the studies where de-emphasizing fiber can actually improve constipation, for example.
I’ll just say that I have an opposite reaction, and, most importantly, I love eating a variety of plant foods that also happen to contain a ton of great nutrients in addition to fiber.
Do I buy into the idea that fiber is important because it is every human being’s responsibility to produce as much colonic bulk as humanly possible? No.
Do I think we should be consistently pushing the limits of our digestive tracts, performing feats of bathroom heroism so momentous they border on Herculean, and making sure the toilet bowl buckles beneath us? No.
The real value of fiber lies not in its coarseness, its tendency to form colonic bulk, to keep us topped off. The true value lies in its fermentability. A fermentable fiber is a prebiotic fiber—fiber that feeds our gut bacteria.
I won’t get into the many roles our gut bacteria play in our health today (I’ve covered that before. 1, 2, 3).
I will, however, explain why we need to be feeding our gut bacteria. Our gut bacteria form a physical barrier against incursions and colonization by pathogenic bacteria; they take up room along the gut lining so pathogens can’t. If we don’t feed our gut bacteria with prebiotics, it won’t be around to protect us. After antibiotic treatment where both good and bad gut flora are indiscriminately targeted and wiped out, pathogenic obesity-promoting bacteria take advantage of the open space. That’s a worst-case scenario, but it shows what can happen when the harmony of the gut is disturbed by antibiotics or, to a less extent, a lack of fermentable prebiotic fibers.
When our gut bacteria eat prebiotics, they also give off metabolites like butyric acid—a short chain fatty acid that our colonic cells use as an energy source and which improves metabolic health.
Gut bacteria also convert antinutrients like phytic acid into nutrients like inositol. The almond meal-obsessed keto eater would do well to have a powerful gut biome set up to convert all that phytic acid to inositol.
Now, some writers will come up with specific blends of fibers, powders and gums to create the “optimal” prebiotic diet for your gut bacteria, but that’s pretty silly. The gut is a complicated place. We’ve barely begun to even identify all its inhabitants. To think we know the precise blend of isolated fiber that will make them flourish, and then act on that, is a mistake.
A better option is to eat foods that contain fiber. Some of the prebiotic fibrous foods with the best nutrient profiles also happen to be extremely keto-friendly.
1) Almonds and Pistachios
Nuts are usually favored in health-conscious circles for a few reasons. They like the monounsaturated fat. They like the mineral profile, or the complete protein, or their ability to dissemble into nut meals and form baked goods. But what gets short shrift is the fiber content. Now, I can’t speak for other nuts, but almonds and pistachios in particular contain fiber with potent prebiotic effects. People who eat almonds and to an even greater extent pistachios end up with improved gut bacteria profiles.
2) Green Bananas
Ripe bananas are difficult to squeeze into a ketogenic diet. The green banana—an unripe one—is mostly resistant starch, a type of starch that cannot be digested and travels untouched until colonic bacteria metabolize it. It’s one of the best stimulators we know of butyric acid production. And sure, you could do a spoonful of raw potato starch to get your resistant starch, but the beauty of the green banana is that it also provides potassium, another nutrient that some find difficult to obtain and stay keto.
3) Wild Blueberries
Blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, and strawberries are all loaded with fiber, and you should eat them. They’re lower carb than you think, they’re loaded with polyphenols, and topped with some real whipped cream they make a fantastic dessert. But wild blueberries are special. They’re smaller than other berries, which increases the amount of skin per ounce you get, and skin is where all the polyphenols and fiber lie. Heck, even the blueberry’s polyphenols have prebiotic effects on the gut biome.
4) Mushrooms
A few years ago, I wrote a whole post on mushrooms. Suffice it to say, they’re quite wonderful, bordering on magical. I did not discuss the fiber they contain. It turns out that all the various mushroom polysaccharides/fibers, including beta-glucans, mannans, chitin, xylans, and galactans also act as potent prebiotics that improve the health of the host.
5) Avocado
Your standard avocado has about 12-15 grams of fiber, if you eat the whole thing. I
6) Jicama
Great with chili powder, salt, and lime juice, jicama is about 11 grams of carbs per cup, but half of those are inulin, a potent prebiotic fiber with a tendency to really ramp up butyrate production.
7) Onions
Onions are another fantastic source of inulin. They go into almost every dish of every cuisine, so there’s no excuse not to be eating onions.
8) Garlic
I’ve been known to treat garlic like a vegetable, roasting an entire cast iron pan full until brown and sweet and chewy. They’re another great source of prebiotic fiber.
9) Leeks
Leeks have more inulin than onions. Try them crispy in egg scrambles.
10) Broccoli
Broccolini is a major part of my favorite meal of the day—my Big-Ass Keto Salad. Broccoli (and cruciferous vegetables in general) has been shown to have modulatory effects on the gut biome.
11) Sauerkraut
Kraut gives you two in one. It’s a fermented food, which is great for the gut biome. And it’s cabbage, which is very fibrous. Even pasteurized kraut improves gut health.
12) Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate, the good stuff with a high cacao content (85%+) and low sugar content, is an incredible source of prebiotic fiber. Eat more of it.
13) Animal Fiber
Obligate carnivores like cheetahs who don’t eat any plants (willingly) still have gut bacteria. These gut bacteria thrive on “animal fiber,” the gristle and cartilage and other bits of connective tissue that comprise a good 20-30% of the walking weight of a prey animal. Humans are not obligate carnivores, but eating the entire animal has been a mainstay of advanced hominid existence for millions of years. I find it very likely that something, someone, somewhere inside our guts is breaking down the animal fiber we eat—so you’d better be eating some!
Not so tough, is it? It’s not like I’m suggesting you load up on bran muffins, psyllium smoothies. I don’t want you dumping flax meal into everything or munching on those awful fiber gummies. Just eat some basic, healthy, low-carb plant matter—foods that don’t really scream “fiber”—and the rest will take care of itself.
What’s your favorite low-carb source of fiber? Let me know down below.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
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References:
Hernández E, Bargiela R, Diez MS, et al. Functional consequences of microbial shifts in the human gastrointestinal tract linked to antibiotic treatment and obesity. Gut Microbes. 2013;4(4):306-15.
Ukhanova M, Wang X, Baer DJ, Novotny JA, Fredborg M, Mai V. Effects of almond and pistachio consumption on gut microbiota composition in a randomised cross-over human feeding study. Br J Nutr. 2014;111(12):2146-52.
Jiao X, Wang Y, Lin Y, et al. Blueberry polyphenols extract as a potential prebiotic with anti-obesity effects on C57BL/6 J mice by modulating the gut microbiota. J Nutr Biochem. 2019;64:88-100.
Jayachandran M, Xiao J, Xu B. A Critical Review on Health Promoting Benefits of Edible Mushrooms through Gut Microbiota. Int J Mol Sci. 2017;18(9)
Nielsen ES, Garnås E, Jensen KJ, et al. Lacto-fermented sauerkraut improves symptoms in IBS patients independent of product pasteurisation – a pilot study. Food Funct. 2018;9(10):5323-5335.
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13 Keto-Friendly Fiber Foods
While some keto or low-carb proponents claim fiber is useless at best and actively harmful at worst, I come down on the side that says fiber is probably helpful for most people. Some folks have persistently better responses to low- or no-fiber keto diets, and I won’t argue with that—I’ve seen it happen and I’ve read the studies where de-emphasizing fiber can actually improve constipation, for example.
I’ll just say that I have an opposite reaction, and, most importantly, I love eating a variety of plant foods that also happen to contain a ton of great nutrients in addition to fiber.
Do I buy into the idea that fiber is important because it is every human being’s responsibility to produce as much colonic bulk as humanly possible? No.
Do I think we should be consistently pushing the limits of our digestive tracts, performing feats of bathroom heroism so momentous they border on Herculean, and making sure the toilet bowl buckles beneath us? No.
The real value of fiber lies not in its coarseness, its tendency to form colonic bulk, to keep us topped off. The true value lies in its fermentability. A fermentable fiber is a prebiotic fiber—fiber that feeds our gut bacteria.
I won’t get into the many roles our gut bacteria play in our health today (I’ve covered that before. 1, 2, 3).
I will, however, explain why we need to be feeding our gut bacteria. Our gut bacteria form a physical barrier against incursions and colonization by pathogenic bacteria; they take up room along the gut lining so pathogens can’t. If we don’t feed our gut bacteria with prebiotics, it won’t be around to protect us. After antibiotic treatment where both good and bad gut flora are indiscriminately targeted and wiped out, pathogenic obesity-promoting bacteria take advantage of the open space. That’s a worst-case scenario, but it shows what can happen when the harmony of the gut is disturbed by antibiotics or, to a less extent, a lack of fermentable prebiotic fibers.
When our gut bacteria eat prebiotics, they also give off metabolites like butyric acid—a short chain fatty acid that our colonic cells use as an energy source and which improves metabolic health.
Gut bacteria also convert antinutrients like phytic acid into nutrients like inositol. The almond meal-obsessed keto eater would do well to have a powerful gut biome set up to convert all that phytic acid to inositol.
Now, some writers will come up with specific blends of fibers, powders and gums to create the “optimal” prebiotic diet for your gut bacteria, but that’s pretty silly. The gut is a complicated place. We’ve barely begun to even identify all its inhabitants. To think we know the precise blend of isolated fiber that will make them flourish, and then act on that, is a mistake.
A better option is to eat foods that contain fiber. Some of the prebiotic fibrous foods with the best nutrient profiles also happen to be extremely keto-friendly.
1) Almonds and Pistachios
Nuts are usually favored in health-conscious circles for a few reasons. They like the monounsaturated fat. They like the mineral profile, or the complete protein, or their ability to dissemble into nut meals and form baked goods. But what gets short shrift is the fiber content. Now, I can’t speak for other nuts, but almonds and pistachios in particular contain fiber with potent prebiotic effects. People who eat almonds and to an even greater extent pistachios end up with improved gut bacteria profiles.
2) Green Bananas
Ripe bananas are difficult to squeeze into a ketogenic diet. The green banana—an unripe one—is mostly resistant starch, a type of starch that cannot be digested and travels untouched until colonic bacteria metabolize it. It’s one of the best stimulators we know of butyric acid production. And sure, you could do a spoonful of raw potato starch to get your resistant starch, but the beauty of the green banana is that it also provides potassium, another nutrient that some find difficult to obtain and stay keto.
3) Wild Blueberries
Blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, and strawberries are all loaded with fiber, and you should eat them. They’re lower carb than you think, they’re loaded with polyphenols, and topped with some real whipped cream they make a fantastic dessert. But wild blueberries are special. They’re smaller than other berries, which increases the amount of skin per ounce you get, and skin is where all the polyphenols and fiber lie. Heck, even the blueberry’s polyphenols have prebiotic effects on the gut biome.
4) Mushrooms
A few years ago, I wrote a whole post on mushrooms. Suffice it to say, they’re quite wonderful, bordering on magical. I did not discuss the fiber they contain. It turns out that all the various mushroom polysaccharides/fibers, including beta-glucans, mannans, chitin, xylans, and galactans also act as potent prebiotics that improve the health of the host.
5) Avocado
Your standard avocado has about 12-15 grams of fiber, if you eat the whole thing. I
6) Jicama
Great with chili powder, salt, and lime juice, jicama is about 11 grams of carbs per cup, but half of those are inulin, a potent prebiotic fiber with a tendency to really ramp up butyrate production.
7) Onions
Onions are another fantastic source of inulin. They go into almost every dish of every cuisine, so there’s no excuse not to be eating onions.
8) Garlic
I’ve been known to treat garlic like a vegetable, roasting an entire cast iron pan full until brown and sweet and chewy. They’re another great source of prebiotic fiber.
9) Leeks
Leeks have more inulin than onions. Try them crispy in egg scrambles.
10) Broccoli
Broccolini is a major part of my favorite meal of the day—my Big-Ass Keto Salad. Broccoli (and cruciferous vegetables in general) has been shown to have modulatory effects on the gut biome.
11) Sauerkraut
Kraut gives you two in one. It’s a fermented food, which is great for the gut biome. And it’s cabbage, which is very fibrous. Even pasteurized kraut improves gut health.
12) Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate, the good stuff with a high cacao content (85%+) and low sugar content, is an incredible source of prebiotic fiber. Eat more of it.
13) Animal Fiber
Obligate carnivores like cheetahs who don’t eat any plants (willingly) still have gut bacteria. These gut bacteria thrive on “animal fiber,” the gristle and cartilage and other bits of connective tissue that comprise a good 20-30% of the walking weight of a prey animal. Humans are not obligate carnivores, but eating the entire animal has been a mainstay of advanced hominid existence for millions of years. I find it very likely that something, someone, somewhere inside our guts is breaking down the animal fiber we eat—so you’d better be eating some!
Not so tough, is it? It’s not like I’m suggesting you load up on bran muffins, psyllium smoothies. I don’t want you dumping flax meal into everything or munching on those awful fiber gummies. Just eat some basic, healthy, low-carb plant matter—foods that don’t really scream “fiber”—and the rest will take care of itself.
What’s your favorite low-carb source of fiber? Let me know down below.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
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References:
Hernández E, Bargiela R, Diez MS, et al. Functional consequences of microbial shifts in the human gastrointestinal tract linked to antibiotic treatment and obesity. Gut Microbes. 2013;4(4):306-15.
Ukhanova M, Wang X, Baer DJ, Novotny JA, Fredborg M, Mai V. Effects of almond and pistachio consumption on gut microbiota composition in a randomised cross-over human feeding study. Br J Nutr. 2014;111(12):2146-52.
Jiao X, Wang Y, Lin Y, et al. Blueberry polyphenols extract as a potential prebiotic with anti-obesity effects on C57BL/6 J mice by modulating the gut microbiota. J Nutr Biochem. 2019;64:88-100.
Jayachandran M, Xiao J, Xu B. A Critical Review on Health Promoting Benefits of Edible Mushrooms through Gut Microbiota. Int J Mol Sci. 2017;18(9)
Nielsen ES, Garnås E, Jensen KJ, et al. Lacto-fermented sauerkraut improves symptoms in IBS patients independent of product pasteurisation – a pilot study. Food Funct. 2018;9(10):5323-5335.
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13 Keto-Friendly Fiber Foods
While some keto or low-carb proponents claim fiber is useless at best and actively harmful at worst, I come down on the side that says fiber is probably helpful for most people. Some folks have persistently better responses to low- or no-fiber keto diets, and I won’t argue with that—I’ve seen it happen and I’ve read the studies where de-emphasizing fiber can actually improve constipation, for example.
I’ll just say that I have an opposite reaction, and, most importantly, I love eating a variety of plant foods that also happen to contain a ton of great nutrients in addition to fiber.
Do I buy into the idea that fiber is important because it is every human being’s responsibility to produce as much colonic bulk as humanly possible? No.
Do I think we should be consistently pushing the limits of our digestive tracts, performing feats of bathroom heroism so momentous they border on Herculean, and making sure the toilet bowl buckles beneath us? No.
The real value of fiber lies not in its coarseness, its tendency to form colonic bulk, to keep us topped off. The true value lies in its fermentability. A fermentable fiber is a prebiotic fiber—fiber that feeds our gut bacteria.
I won’t get into the many roles our gut bacteria play in our health today (I’ve covered that before. 1, 2, 3).
I will, however, explain why we need to be feeding our gut bacteria. Our gut bacteria form a physical barrier against incursions and colonization by pathogenic bacteria; they take up room along the gut lining so pathogens can’t. If we don’t feed our gut bacteria with prebiotics, it won’t be around to protect us. After antibiotic treatment where both good and bad gut flora are indiscriminately targeted and wiped out, pathogenic obesity-promoting bacteria take advantage of the open space. That’s a worst-case scenario, but it shows what can happen when the harmony of the gut is disturbed by antibiotics or, to a less extent, a lack of fermentable prebiotic fibers.
When our gut bacteria eat prebiotics, they also give off metabolites like butyric acid—a short chain fatty acid that our colonic cells use as an energy source and which improves metabolic health.
Gut bacteria also convert antinutrients like phytic acid into nutrients like inositol. The almond meal-obsessed keto eater would do well to have a powerful gut biome set up to convert all that phytic acid to inositol.
Now, some writers will come up with specific blends of fibers, powders and gums to create the “optimal” prebiotic diet for your gut bacteria, but that’s pretty silly. The gut is a complicated place. We’ve barely begun to even identify all its inhabitants. To think we know the precise blend of isolated fiber that will make them flourish, and then act on that, is a mistake.
A better option is to eat foods that contain fiber. Some of the prebiotic fibrous foods with the best nutrient profiles also happen to be extremely keto-friendly.
1) Almonds and Pistachios
Nuts are usually favored in health-conscious circles for a few reasons. They like the monounsaturated fat. They like the mineral profile, or the complete protein, or their ability to dissemble into nut meals and form baked goods. But what gets short shrift is the fiber content. Now, I can’t speak for other nuts, but almonds and pistachios in particular contain fiber with potent prebiotic effects. People who eat almonds and to an even greater extent pistachios end up with improved gut bacteria profiles.
2) Green Bananas
Ripe bananas are difficult to squeeze into a ketogenic diet. The green banana—an unripe one—is mostly resistant starch, a type of starch that cannot be digested and travels untouched until colonic bacteria metabolize it. It’s one of the best stimulators we know of butyric acid production. And sure, you could do a spoonful of raw potato starch to get your resistant starch, but the beauty of the green banana is that it also provides potassium, another nutrient that some find difficult to obtain and stay keto.
3) Wild Blueberries
Blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, and strawberries are all loaded with fiber, and you should eat them. They’re lower carb than you think, they’re loaded with polyphenols, and topped with some real whipped cream they make a fantastic dessert. But wild blueberries are special. They’re smaller than other berries, which increases the amount of skin per ounce you get, and skin is where all the polyphenols and fiber lie. Heck, even the blueberry’s polyphenols have prebiotic effects on the gut biome.
4) Mushrooms
A few years ago, I wrote a whole post on mushrooms. Suffice it to say, they’re quite wonderful, bordering on magical. I did not discuss the fiber they contain. It turns out that all the various mushroom polysaccharides/fibers, including beta-glucans, mannans, chitin, xylans, and galactans also act as potent prebiotics that improve the health of the host.
5) Avocado
Your standard avocado has about 12-15 grams of fiber, if you eat the whole thing. I
6) Jicama
Great with chili powder, salt, and lime juice, jicama is about 11 grams of carbs per cup, but half of those are inulin, a potent prebiotic fiber with a tendency to really ramp up butyrate production.
7) Onions
Onions are another fantastic source of inulin. They go into almost every dish of every cuisine, so there’s no excuse not to be eating onions.
8) Garlic
I’ve been known to treat garlic like a vegetable, roasting an entire cast iron pan full until brown and sweet and chewy. They’re another great source of prebiotic fiber.
9) Leeks
Leeks have more inulin than onions. Try them crispy in egg scrambles.
10) Broccoli
Broccolini is a major part of my favorite meal of the day—my Big-Ass Keto Salad. Broccoli (and cruciferous vegetables in general) has been shown to have modulatory effects on the gut biome.
11) Sauerkraut
Kraut gives you two in one. It’s a fermented food, which is great for the gut biome. And it’s cabbage, which is very fibrous. Even pasteurized kraut improves gut health.
12) Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate, the good stuff with a high cacao content (85%+) and low sugar content, is an incredible source of prebiotic fiber. Eat more of it.
13) Animal Fiber
Obligate carnivores like cheetahs who don’t eat any plants (willingly) still have gut bacteria. These gut bacteria thrive on “animal fiber,” the gristle and cartilage and other bits of connective tissue that comprise a good 20-30% of the walking weight of a prey animal. Humans are not obligate carnivores, but eating the entire animal has been a mainstay of advanced hominid existence for millions of years. I find it very likely that something, someone, somewhere inside our guts is breaking down the animal fiber we eat—so you’d better be eating some!
Not so tough, is it? It’s not like I’m suggesting you load up on bran muffins, psyllium smoothies. I don’t want you dumping flax meal into everything or munching on those awful fiber gummies. Just eat some basic, healthy, low-carb plant matter—foods that don’t really scream “fiber”—and the rest will take care of itself.
What’s your favorite low-carb source of fiber? Let me know down below.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
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Vanilla Bean Gelato - Dish
This vanilla bean gelato recipe uses the science behind gelato production to produce exceptionally creamy gelato with an extremely smooth mouthfeel. The volatile flavour molecules in the vanilla extract give the gelato an immediate burst of flavour that is followed by the sweet, creamy, rich, full bodied, and somewhat woody, flavour of grade A (or ‘black’) Bourbon vanilla beans.
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Cream Milk Sugar Skimmed milk powder Inulin Egg yolks 1 large grade A (or ‘black’) Bourbon vanilla bean.
Produces 800 ml (0.85 quarts) of gelato mix
PART 1: QUICK-READ RECIPE
PART 2: LONG-READ RECIPE
1. Mix composition spreadsheet
Don’t worry if the spreadsheet below looks confusing, I’m going to walk you through it step by step. You just need to pay attention to the cells in yellow, green, and blue.
Let’s start with the fat content of your milk and cream. For gelato production, you can use any kind of cream (US: light, whipping, heavy; Australia: light, thickened, single, double; Canada: half and half, table, whipping; UK: singe, double) and milk as long as you know the fat content of both. Here in the UK, the fresh double cream I use contains 47.5g of fat per 100ml, which equates to 47.5% fat, and the whole milk 3.7g of fat per 100ml, or 3.7% fat.
To start, enter the fat content of your cream in cell B2, and the fat content of your milk in cell B3. Press enter to update the spreadsheet. Cells B6 to B11 (in green) display the amount of each ingredient, in grams, that you’ll be using for this recipe.
That’s all that we need to do to the spreadsheet for now; we’ll come back to it later after the heating stage.
2. Inulin
is a dietary fiber found in a variety of plant foods such as bananas, barley, chicory, and onions. It’s an ingredient that I’ve only just recently become extremely interested in not only because of its association with a wide range of health benefits, which include improved bowel habits (1), increased calcium absorption with positive effects for bone health (2), and a reduced risk of heart disease (3), but also because it significantly improves texture; I’ve discussed the texture enhancement abilities of dietary fiber in my post on fiber in ice cream.
3. Prepare an ice bath
The next step is to prepare an ice bath. An ice bath is a mixture of ice and water that you’ll use to cool your mix as quickly as possible to no more than 7.2°C (45°F) within a maximum of 1.5 hours. This minimises the time the mix spends in the ‘danger zone’, between 5°C (41°F) and 65°C (149°F), where bacteria likes to multiply.
Fill a fairly large bowl about 2/3 of the way with ice cubes and place a large zip-lock freezer bag next to the bowl ready for later.
4. Vanilla beans
I’ve tested Tahitian, Indian, Bourbon, and Ugandan vanilla beans, and have found that grade A (or ‘black’) Bourbon beans have the best flavour and aroma. Bourbon vanilla is the term used collectively for beans from Madagascar, Reunion, Comoro Islands, and the Seychelles. The aroma is sweet, creamy, rich, full bodied, tobacco-like, somewhat woody, deep balsamic, and has sweet spicy back notes (4).
The only downside to grade A Bourbon beans is that they are ridiculously expensive. You can use lower grade B Bourbon, or Tahitian, Mexican, Indonesian, Indian, or Ugandan beans that are, generally, cheaper and will still give fairly decent results.
4.1. How to choose vanilla beans
When choosing vanilla beans, a high vanillin (>0.20%), high moisture (>20%) bean is the most likely to deliver the best quality flavour.
4.1.1. A high vanillin content
Vanillin is the most abundant of the vanilla flavour constituents, varying considerably from trace quantities to almost 3% by weight of cured vanilla beans, and is generally used as a prime indicator of flavour quality. The lower the vanillin content, the lower the quality of the bean, not just because of the vanillin itself, but also due to the other flavour notes that develop along with vanillin during curing.
4.1.2. A high moisture content
The moisture content of commercial vanilla beans varies from 10% for poor quality lower grade beans to 35% for gourmet beans (5). Drier beans are less aromatic than high moisture beans and flavour notes, such as pruney, woody, floral, fruity, and rummy, which develop along with vanillin during curing, do not develop and/or are lost, in over-dried (low moisture) beans (6).
4.1.3. Bean length
The length of the bean is also a good indicator of quality with Grade A beans usually measuring over 15 cm (5.9″) in length.
4.2. Preparing your bean
Vanilla’s flavour is contained in two different parts of the pod (commonly referred to as the bean): the sticky material that contains the small black beans, and the pod wall.
On a chopping board, run the tip of a sharp knife down the pod to separate it into two. Using the back of the knife, scrape out the sticky material into a small bowl.
If you have a coffee or spice grinder, grind the two halves of the pod into a fine powder. Studies has shown that vanillin yield increases with decreasing pod particle sizes: powdered pods have a higher vanillin yield than 2mm and 5mm chopped beans (7). If you don’t have a coffee grinder, dice the two pod halves into small pieces; the smaller you can get them, the better.
Add your ground/diced pod halves to the same bowl containing the small sticky material and set aside for later.
4.3. Why use vanilla extract?
Rob Linforth, Principal Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Science, notes that as we eat, what we register most intensely is the rate of change of flavour: that is, we perceive a quick, powerful burst of flavour more intensely than a slow, gradual build up of flavour (8).
Flavour can be best defined as a combination of taste, aroma, texture, temperature, sight (and even sound) experienced by an individual when eating or drinking. Flavour results from two types of molecules: those that are volatile (i.e. small and light enough to evaporate from their source), which are responsible for aromas; and those that are non-volatile (i.e. don’t easily evaporate at room temperature), which are responsible for taste. It is generally believed that aroma is more important than taste in determining overall flavour, a generalisation that can be easily demonstrated by observing the difficulty in distinguishing between an apple and a pear if our nose is blocked by a cold or pinching fingers. Alcohol (vanilla extract is made up of alcohol, water, vanilla pods, and sometimes sugar), being volatile, releases aroma compounds relatively quickly, giving a quick burst of vanilla aroma as soon as it is eaten.
5. Heating the mix
Before you combine your ingredients, weigh your pan and write down its weight. You’ll use this measurement later at the end of the heating stage.
Add the sugar to your pan, followed by the egg yolks. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, mix these two ingredients well. The dissolved sugar will help prevent the yolks from curdling. Add the cream, milk, skim milk powder, and inulin and stir well.
For the next step, you’ll need a food thermometer and a timer.
Over a medium heat, bring your mix up to 75°C (167°F) whilst constantly stirring (this step usually takes me between 13 and 15 minutes). Once the temperature reaches 75°C (167°F), turn the heat down to low, move your pan about 1/4 of the way off the heat, and continue heating and stirring until the temperature slowly reaches 77°C (170°F), which should take another 2-3 minutes.
Whilst stirring, keep the mix at 77°C (170°F) for 30 minutes, adjusting the position of your pan to help regulate the temperature. Don’t worry if you go slightly over 77°C (170°F); just try and keep the temperature as close to 77°C (170°F) as you can.
5.1. Why heat the mix to 77°C (170°F) for 30 minutes?
I know that keeping the mix at 77°C (170°F) for 30 minutes is quite cumbersome, but it’s essential for two reasons: 1. to pasteurise the mix, and 2. to significantly enhance smoothness of texture by promoting reversible protein denaturation.
5.1.1. To pasteurise the mix
Ice cream needs to be pasteurised to destroy all pathogens and the enzyme phosphatase that may be harmful to health. Pasteurised ice cream can be obtained by the mixture being heated:
5.1.2. To promote reversible protein denaturation
Milk proteins are classified in two major categories. The first and most abundant is the casein family, and the second the whey proteins. When milk proteins are subjected to heat treatment, the whey proteins may undergo structural changes, commonly known as denaturation. Protein denaturation involves 2 steps: an unfolding step at 70 to 78°C (158 to 172°F), and an aggregation step at 78 to 82.5°C (172 to 180°F), that mostly follows unfolding (10).
Heating milk so that the whey proteins undergo partial protein unfolding yields a more voluminous and more stable foam, improves the emulsifying characteristics of the proteins, imparts beneficial body and smoothness of texture, increases the meltdown time of the ice cream, and contributes to reduced iciness (11 12 13 14). Foaming and emulsifying characteristics, however, may be impaired if protein undergoes aggregation (15). Studies have shown a greater degree of protein denaturation with longer heating times (10 16).
6. Mix weight after heating
After 30 minutes at 77°C (170°F), the next step is to weigh your mix. This step is a bit cumbersome but I’ll go through it step-by-step with an example.
Here we go.
After 30 minutes at 77°C (170°F), take your pan off the heat and place it on a set of digital scales. Subtract the weight of your pan, which you wrote down earlier, from the weight displayed on the scales and write this post-heating mix weight down on sheet of paper; you’ll need this figure to update the mix composition spreadsheet later.
If your post-heating mix weight is greater than 871g, place the pan back on the heat and continue stirring until you get a post-heating mix weight of 871g; don’t worry if the temperature doesn’t rise back up to 77°C (170°F) during this extra heating time. If your post-heating mix weight is considerably lower than 871g (below around 771g) after 30 minutes, you can still go ahead and freeze your in your ice cream or gelato machine, but it will likely be too sweet.
After 30 minutes at 77°C (170°F), I take my pan off the heat and weigh it on my digital scales. The scales display a total weight of 1950g. I know that my pan weighs 1060g (I weighed the empty pan before I added all the ingredients) so I subtract 1060g (the weight of my pan) from 1950g (the weight of the pan and post-heating mix), which gives me 890g. I know that my target post-heating mix weight (cell E5) should be 871g so I will put the pan back on the heat and continue heating and stirring for another 2 – 3 minutes. After 3 more minutes, I take my pan back off the heat and weigh it again. This time the scales display 1931g. I subtract 1060g (the weight of my pan) from 1931g (the weight of the pan and post-heating mix), which gives me 871g.
7. Cooling the mix
Once you get your post-heating mix weight down to 871g, add the blended vanilla powder/diced pieces and sticky material and put the pan back onto the heat. Whilst stirring, keep the temperature above 72°C (162°F) for 15 seconds to pasteurise the vanilla pod.
Switch the heat off and carefully pour your mix into the zip lock bag that you placed next to your ice bath, making sure that you scrape out as much of the vanilla powder/pieces as possible. Seal the bag and place it in your ice bath, which should, by now, contain a little melted water. If it doesn’t, add just a little bit of tap water.
Once your mix has cooled to 7.2°C (45°F), which should take no more than 1.5 hours, place the zip-lock bag in the fridge and leave it overnight. To improve the extraction efficiency of the beans, I’d recommend sloshing the mix around the bag every few hours. This will give your gelato a stronger vanilla flavour.
8. Freezing your mix in your ice cream or gelato machine
The next day, carefully sieve the mix into a large bowl or jug, using a clean wooden spoon to press down on the vanilla powder/pieces to extract as much of the flavour as possible. Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and pour your mix into your ice cream or gelato machine. I’d recommend reading my review of either the Lello 5030 Musso Pola, or the Cuisinart ICE-100, where I discuss the key principles of the freezing stage.
8.1. How do I know when the gelato is ready?
Draw temperature (the temperature at which gelato is extracted from the machine) significantly influences texture, with lower draw temperatures producing smoother texture. In my tests, I’ve found that gelato extracted at between -10°C and -12°C (14°F and 10.4°F) is perceived smoother and creamier than that extracted at conventional draw temperatures of around -6°C (21.2°F). I’d recommend getting a cheap r to read the draw temperature.
Quickly scoop your gelato into a pre-chilled container and place it in the freezer to harden. It will take between 1 and 2 hours to get your gelato to a serving temperature of around -14°C (7°F).
9. Mix composition spreadsheet adjustment
When I make this recipe, my mix weight usually decreases from a pre-heating mix weight of 1050g (cell E4) to a post-heating mix weight of 871g (cell E5), a result of the reduction of water through evaporation. It’s unlikely, however, that you’ll get exactly the same post-heating mix weight as I do because of a host of factors, including the size of your pan, rate of stirring, and room temperature, that affect the rate of evaporation.
If you don’t achieve a post-heating mix weight of 871g after 30 minutes of heating, I’d strongly recommend adjusting my Excel mix composition spreadsheet so that the next time you make this recipe, you’ll end up with the correct mix composition after exactly 30 minutes of heating.
To start, download the spreadsheet by clicking on the ‘download’ icon that’s four icons in from the right of the black bar under the spreadsheet; you won’t be able to save any changes you make to without downloading the spreadsheet. Enter your post-heating mix weight, which you wrote down earlier, in cell E5. Changing the post-heating mix weight will alter the mix composition so you will also need to adjust the data in cells B4, B5, E1, E2, and E3, so that the data in row 13 (in blue) is as follows:
• Total solids (cell A13): 46% • NFMS (cell B13): 12% • Fat (cell D13): 8% • Sugar (cell E13): 17% • Egg (cell F13): 4% • Inulin (cell G13): 5%
The spreadsheet will then update the weight of each ingredient in cells B8 to B11. The cream (cell B2) and milk (cell B3) fat content will be set to my default when you download the spreadsheet so make sure that you also update these to your cream and milk fat contents. Save the changes you make to the spreadsheet.
The downloaded mix composition spreadsheet will then be good to go the next time you make this recipe.
10. References
1. Marteau, P., Jacobs, H., Cazaubiel, M., Signoret, C., Prevel, J. M., and Housez, B., 2011. Effects of chicory inulin in constipated elderly people: a double-blind controlled trial. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 62.164-170.
2. Meyer, D., and Stasse-Wolthuis, M., 2006. Inulin and bone health. Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research. 4. 211-226.
3. Brighenti, F., 2007. Dietary fructans and serum triacylglycerols: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Nutrition. 11.2552-2556.
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11. Schmidt, K., Lundy, A., Reynolds, J., and Yee, L. N., 1993. Carbohydrate or protein based fat mimicker effects on ice milk properties. Journal of Food Science. 58(761–763):779.
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14. Goff, H. D., 2008. 65 Years of ice cream science. International Dairy Journal. 18(7).
15. Phillips, L. G., Schulman, W. and Kinsella, J. E., 1990. pH and heat treatment effects on foaming of whey protein isolate. Journal of Food Science. 55:1116–1119.
16. McKenna, B. M., and O’Sullivan, A. C., 1971. Whey protein denaturation in concentrated skimmilks. Journal of Dairy Science. 54.1075-1077.
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If you plan to work all through your pregnancy then it is essential that you take some opportunity to assess your workplace as well as those activities which you're associated with daily to establish whether there are any possible hazards.
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Any vaccinations that use live viruses are avoided throughout pregnancy, for example Rubella, measles, mumps and yellow fever. It's vital that you create your doctor aware that you're pregnant prior to having any immunisations. Immunisations are needed for traveling to your states, and these ought to be discussed fully with your physician before finalising any travel plans.
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If you are travelling globally, speak with your doctor about required immunisations and also what effect they could have in your unborn infant
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I had been thinking of purchasing Myprotein Liquid Egg Whites for a while yet with a high healthy protein diet plan currently in position including meat, fish as well as eggs, covered up by regular protein shakes, I had actually always discovered a reason not to acquire them. I additionally had doubts regarding the best ways to save the egg whites, just how rapidly they must be consumed and exactly how they must be taken. Having checked out numerous excellent reviews, I made a decision to attempt the 6 pack barn farmed and also you can read my ideas of this item below.
Protein In Eggs
If you're looking for an item which is high in myprotein referral code, reduced in carbohydrates, low in incredibly practical and also fat then egg whites are for you. As a matter of fact, they are the purest type of healthy protein you could obtain as well as if you speak to anybody looking to maintain a high healthy protein diet plan, I can assure they will certainly be consuming eggs by the bucket lots (or carton lots ...)! They are likewise nature's leading healthy protein source due to the fact that they are 100% bio-available definition they are totally absorbed by the body with none of the amino acids going to waste.
They are likewise a very great choice to myprotein referral code shake for people looking to reduce weight because they are devoid of artificial flavouring, stabilisers, preservatives, sugarcoated as well as e numbers which several protein supplements contain and also they have basically no carbohydrates, fat or cholesterol. Nevertheless they are also very useful, many athletes include them right into their protein drinks for an extra healthy protein top up whilst they could also be made use of for scrambled egg, omelette, cooking as well as taken in directly from the bottle!
Why Myprotein Liquid Egg Whites?
Much of you could have become aware of the brand 'Two Chicks' that sell egg whites in grocery stores and online. Nonetheless they just market tiny containers and also because of this the cost of buying them exercises to be far more costly compared to Myprotein's Liquid Egg Whites. The cost per kg (since today) for Two Chicks is £ 6.18; the rate per kg of Myprotein's barn farmed is just £ 3.92!
MP MAX Fluid Egg Whites are:
1. 100% fresh egg white completely pasteurised for safety and also benefit 2. Salmonella, listeria as well as avadin totally free so entirely safe to eat raw or cooked 3. No trans fats, flavouring, e stabilisers, numbers or preservatives 4. 6 x 1kg bottles = 32 egg whites each bottle (and also if our mathematics is correct ... 192 egg whites in complete!
Neutralising the avidin material implies your body could fully make use of the B vitamin 'Biotin' which assists the body efficiently use power stores. The pasteurisation procedure permits the egg whites to be stored for up to 5 months in room warm so they do not need to be saved in a fridge whilst other products normally only have a service life of Thirty Day.
Nutritional Info (Per 100g).
Energy: 209.0 kj. Power: 50.0 cal. Protein (as-is): 10.2 g. Carbohydrates: 1.1 g. Fat: 0.5 g. of which fills: trace. Cholesterol: trace.
Utilizing Fluid Egg Whites.
Before getting I had read a couple of testimonials on Myprotein's website from consumers saying they could not consume the egg whites straight from the bottle and that you require a friendly (i.e. squash or juice) or a protein shake with them. Then various other clients replied by stating they were very easy to consume alcohol by themselves and also didn't taste of anything.
I discovered the egg whites were extremely simple to drink straight from the bottle, in fact it was so easy I in some way handled to take in 500g in concerning 2 gulps! Currently whenever I desire to cover up my daily protein consumption as well as I am at residence, I frequently simply take the container from the refrigerator as well as gulp down 100-200g yet I understand that I could conveniently drink half a container if I desired to.
I have also been utilizing them in my healthy protein trembles when I wake up in the morning, before/after a workout and in the evening before bed. Simply include 200-300g of water right into your bottle, a scoop of healthy protein powder and 100ml of fluid whites.
For a healthy and balanced breakfast, produce a shake consisting of water, fluid egg whites, flaxseed and also porridge oats; the best mix of healthy protein, fiber and also reduced GI carbohydrates to kick start your day.
I did attempt and also utilize them for rushed eggs yet I really did not specifically like the taste and also figured out you would need to make use of a lot of the liquid for one plate.
Other egg white recipes which you could try out include healthy protein pancakes, egg fried rice, healthy smoothies, quiches, meringues as well as soufflé.
For how long Do They Last?
" How do I store liquid egg whites?" is an usual inquiry asked on the internet. Although Myprotein's have a life span of 5 months, as soon as opened it is recommended that the bottle is consumed within 2-3 days with the cover secure. I understand some individuals utilize Tupperware to distribute portions, freeze them after that thaw them on days they wish to use them. To be honest, I truly do not assume this is needed. I have the tendency to undergo a container in 4-6 days as well as after 5-6 days the egg whites will certainly not go off, do not produce a bad odour as well as are still perfectly drinkable, specifically if you're mixing them in with various other liquids or protein powder.
Certainly it depends how often you intend to use them but my suggestion would just be to open up a bottle, keep it in the refrigerated as well as utilize it within a week. Maintain your unopened containers kept in a cupboard at space temperature.
Conclusion.
You go through days where you do not utilize it since you do not have time, desire to make use of actual eggs or simply don't want to consume eggs! I have actually currently had the product for over 3 weeks as well as still have 1 container left so I feel you will get a good month's supply of high quality pure protein for simply £ 23.49 if making use of the barn farmed version.
I had been assuming about purchasing Myprotein Fluid Egg Whites for a while but with a high healthy protein diet plan already in area being composed of meat, fish as well as eggs, covered up by routine protein shakes, I had constantly located a factor not to get them. If you're looking for a product which is high in protein, low in carbs, low in incredibly functional and fat then egg whites are for you. They are the purest form of protein you can get as well as if you talk to anyone looking to preserve a high healthy protein diet plan, I could assure they will certainly be consuming eggs by the bucket tons (or container tons ...)! I have a tendency to go through a container in 4-6 days and also after 5-6 days the egg whites will certainly not go off, do not offer off a bad smell and are still completely drinkable, especially if you're blending them in with various other fluids or protein powder.
You go through days where you don't utilize it since you don't have time, desire to use real eggs or just do not desire to eat eggs!
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