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Fat-Soluble Vitamins
What are the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K vitamins are essential micronutrients that dissolve in fat and are stored in the body's liver and fatty tissues for long-term use. They are crucial for vision, immune function, bone health, and blood clotting, and are...
Creatine from Real Food
The Powder is heavily processed🏭💊🧪 Everyone's talking about creatine.No-one is asking about how the powder is actually made. Here's the short version . . . 👇 Creatine monohydrate powder is synthesised from industrial feedstocks (the base chemicals you feed into a...
Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score
Nine Essential Amino Acids ☀️ Proteins, the building blocks of life, are large molecules made up of amino acids that are important for cell function, tissue structure, and body regulation. There are 20 amino acids that function as building blocks of proteins. Humans...
Plant Pairings for a Healthier Bigger Harvest
Grow food better, naturally! 🧑🌾 Smart Plant Pairings for a Healthier, Bigger Harvest. Grow better, naturally! The right plant combinations can boost growth, improve flavor, and keep pests away 👇✅Peppers + Cilantro — cilantro helps repel unwanted pests. 🌶️🫑...
Whole Fruits vs. Fruit Juice
A physiological and metabolic perspective 🍇🍌🍎🍍🍒🍐🥝 Although derived from the same source, whole fruits and fruit juices elicit distinct metabolic and hormonal responses due to differences in fiber integrity, food matrix structure, and nutrient delivery kinetics....
Vegetable Fruit Nutrient Chameleons
Between categories 🍅🥒🎃🫑🌶️ Some foods sit quietly between categories: vegetable fruits are one of them. Tomatoes. Cucumbers. Courgettes. Aubergines. Peppers. Squash. Pumpkin. Botanically, they are fruits. Nutritionally, they behave like vegetables, and they bring...
Foods Nutritional Value Based on Nutrient Density and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention
Nutrient Profiling System☀️ A Nutrient Profiling System (NPS) has been developed and tested using the Nutritional Value Score (NVS)—a novel NPS based on priority nutrients and dietary factors predictive of noncommunicable disease risk—to better identify foods with...
Examining Nutrient Bioavailability
Numerous factors impact nutrient bioavailability☀️ Nutrient bioavailability is defined as the measure of the total amount of nutrients in a given food that can be digested, absorbed, metabolized, and stored in the body, A recent study, co-authored by Ty Beal, PhD,...
Nutritional Impacts of Alternative Animal Source Foods
Examining Alt-ASFs health benefits☀️ Animal source foods (ASFs), including meat, eggs, fish, and dairy products, provide unique nutritional properties and contribute to healthy diets worldwide. Yet, for a variety of reasons, the dietary landscape has moved somewhat...
Achieving a Protein Quality Diet
Protein and amino acid composition and digestibility Protein quality isn’t just about the protein.Current protein quality measures are based on amino acid composition and digestibility, and they have taken us a long way. They’ve been an important step forward and...
Recommended Dietary Guidelines
Whole nutrient based natural foods The USDA has recently published the 2025 - 2030 Recommended Dietary Guidelines which changes the focus to emphasize the importance of eating whole nutrient-dense based natural foods as protein, dairy, vegetables, fruits,...
Carbohydrates Science
The Science of Energy When you eat carbohydrates, your body converts them into glucose. That glucose enters your bloodstream and fuels your cells — especially brain and muscle cells. If your body doesn’t get enough quality carbs, it struggles to maintain consistent...












