Here is some good-to-know information that I found out about the Watermelons. Watermelons are from the Cucurbitaceae family and there are more than 1200 of varieties of them. Watermelons can weigh anywhere from less than a pound and up to more than two hundred pounds. They are also can be in red, yellow, orange, and white colors when in ripened stage. Some of the Watermelon’s varieties are Carolina Cross, Yellow Crimson Watermelon, Orangeglo, Moon and Stars, Cream of Saskatchewan, Melitopolski, Densuke Watermelon, and so on.
When you pick a Watermelon in the store, at the farm, or at some kind of a market, make sure that you choose a fully ripened Watermelon. A good amount of research has been done and it was conducted that fully ripened fruits that are close to being spoiled are much higher in antioxidants then the early picked fruits. When choosing which one to take home with you, try choosing the one with a deeper color and if you choose the whole and uncut Watermelons, then there has to be a yellow spot on one of the sides, that is the side it was laying on, if there is no yellow spot then the watermelon was picked to early. Also, the less of white lines on top of the green deep color the better. Not only do the Watermelons taste good but they also are pretty healthy. The Nutrients in about One Raw Watermelon Wedge (about 1/16 of whole melon = 286 grams) are: Continue reading
Pizza is something like a baked open-faced pie that consists of a thin layer of dough topped with your favorite sauce, vegetables, and cheese. Hmmm, that makes me hungry and it makes my mouth water. Store bought pizzas are not too bad, but home baked pizza is awesome, or home baked healthy and organic pizza is even better. There are lots and lots of Pizza recipes on the internet, because people have different tastes, ovens, and ingredients. Well I found a Pizza recipe that I like, and mix matched with some other ingredients, and then test cooked some, and now I was able to come up with this unique and delicious Pizza recipe (with God’s help and blessings). You can try following my Recipe with my Ingredients, or you can change the kind of flour that you want to use, like you could use two cups of whole wheat flour and one and a half cups of all-purpose flour, but whatever flour you will mix in, make sure that you equal to three and a half cups total of flour. You can also replace the honey with other honey or sugars. The salt can be changed to sea salt or iodized sea salt or some other salt. Also, you can replace the olive oil with any of your favorite oils. Also, this recipe is for hand work and not some bread machine work. Ok, lets get started.
Did you know that Blackberries are sweet, fun and healthy to eat? Well, now you do :) So, enjoy… I think that was funny. Anyway, yes, Blackberry is very important and supportive for our bodies to stay healthy. The very black blackberries are very sweet and good to eat. While they are growing they look like Raspberry shrubs, but then when they become black, you notice right away that they are not raspberries. Blackberry in Russian would be ежевика. If you get about a cup of fresh and raw blackberries, then you would enjoy these kind of nutrients:
Many people really like to drink carbonated cola, pop, soda, or soft drink. An honest dentist will tell you to stay away from dark sweet pop, because it destroys and demineralizes the enamel which protects our teeth. Did you know that some teenagers drink as many as twelve pop cans per day, sounds like someone is addicted. Did you know that sugar is considered a drug and that is why people get so addicted to sweets and not only to pop. The carbonated cola drinks extremely promote aging. Most of the soda pop provides very lethal, toxic, poisonous, and venomous effects for our bodies. Did you know that because of the high sugar levels in soft drinks the studies linked obesity, osteoporosis, toth decay, and heart diseases to these harmful drinks. Just remember this, drinking pop soft drinks extremely promotes many kinds of diseases in your body because it destroys your immune system, and we all know that the immune system is like our body’s shield from most or even all of the diseases out there. So if you destroy your body shield then you will start getting sick a lot more often from very simple and little colds, flu, bacterias, and other dangerous free radicals. An average carbonated cola, or pop, or soda, or soft drink contains these ingredients:
Buckwheat grains are very good for your health and it tastes good also. Did you know that people make strong flavored dark honey out of Buckwheat flowers. Well, anyway, the nutrients that you can find in about a cup of cooked buckwheat are:
Beautiful Pink Salmon Meat is very good and beneficial to our health. Some people like eating salmon when it is just salted and some like to bake it or broil it in the oven. You should always try to get the wild caught salmon and not the farm raised one. Also, remember this, the colder the water where Salmon came from – the better the nutrients of that salmon. The List of Nutrients in baked or broiled Salmon is amazing:
Tofu is not only a Fun and Asian food to eat, but it is also pretty healthy. Some people call Tofu something like Cheese of Asia. Tofu is made from soybeans milk. Japanese call this cheese – Tofu, but Chinese call it Doufu. The Nutrients in raw small piece of Tofu are:
Brown Rice is very awesome grain food. Brown rice is a lot healthier than white rice because to make white rice they mill and polish it with machines so hard that it losses some of the important vitamins. People like to enjoy rice in sushi, soups, fried rice dish, and boiled rice dish. In about one cup of cooked Brown Rice you will get these Nutrients:
Swiss Chard is a very healthy green vegetable. It has some taste similar to the other leafy green vegetables like spinach and beet greens. The List of Nutrients in Swiss Chard is very big and awesome:
Sweet Potatoes are very beneficial for our health, and no they do not have the same nutrients as the regular potatoes. Sometimes Sweet Potatoes are called Yam, but they really aren’t Yam. Sweet Potatoes is considered to be a root vegetable. Sweet Potatoes have these important nutrients: