Recipes
Foods to check out
- [1] Quinoa is a non-grass-grain pseudocereal closely related to beets, spinach and tumbleweeds. Pronnounced KEEN-wah
- an unusually complete protein source among plant foods
- phosphorus, magnesium, iron
- gluten-free
- easy to digest
- light and fluffy, like white rice or couscous, mild slightly nutty flavour.
- Quinoa can serve as a high-protein breakfast food mixed with honey, almonds, or berries
- Quinoa flour can be used in wheat-based and gluten-free baking.
- Quinoa may be germinated in its raw form to boost its nutritional value.
- 2-4 hours of sprouting is all that's needed for germination benefits. This also softens it, making it suitable for salads and other cold foods.
- http://gogoquinoa.com
- [2] [3] were grown in North America before maize was popularized.
Ingredients and Additives
- Oat bran is the outer casing of the oat.
- [5] Ascorbyl palmitate, aka "vitamin C ester".
- a fat-soluble form of vitamin C
- an antioxidant food additive
- Oral supplements of ascorbyl palmitate are less effective, due to the substance breaking down again into ascorbic acid (a sugar acid) and palmitic acid (a saturated fatty acid) before being digested.
- [6] Calcium hydroxide
- For potato chips this is likely a preservative or possibly a filler. I haven't found a definite source for it yet. Perhaps it's there to balance the acidity of ascorbyl palmitate (which becomes ascorbic acid and palmitic acid).
- a weak basic
- Used in the food industry for processing water for alcoholic beverages, soft drinks. ("processing"?)
- Used to fortify fruit drinks such as Tropicana Calcium + Vitamin D orange juice. ("fortify"?)
- Used in the separation of sugar from sugar cane in the sugar industry
- Used in home food preservation in the making of pickles.
- In Native American and Mesoamerican cooking, calcium hydroxide is called "cal". Corn cooked with cal becomes nixtamal which significantly increases the bioavailability of niacin, and is also considered tastier and easier to digest.
- A strong antimicrobial effect and is a bone-regeneration stimulant. Used during root canals. [7] [8]
Needs more research:
- oat fibre ("fibre"?)
- [9] "A more concentrated form of oat bran"
- There's a "soluble oat fibre", meaning there is insoluble.
- There is a suggestion that the benefits may be damaged by processing. Perhaps also by preparation.
- whole cracked flax ("cracked"?)
- I think "cracked" just means shelled. If correct, then it's a filler word. May be an alternate word for "ground".
- milk ingredients ("ingredients"?)
- modified milk ingredients ("modified"?)
- hydrogenated vegetable oil ("hydrogenated"?)
- [10] Ascorbic acid
- antioxidant
- only one form of ascorbic acid is "vitamin c" !! Learn more.
- Produced (alongside Palmitic Acid) by eating Ascorbyl Palmitate.
- [11] Modified starch
- Modified corn starch
- Hydrolyzed corn gluten
- [12]? TODO
- [13] Wheat gluten
- [14] Soy protein
- [15] Acetic acid
- [16] Calcium chloride
- [17] Lecithin
- Soy lecithin
- [18] Enriched flour
- [19] Soybean oil
- [20] Sodium stearoyl lactylate
- Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate
- [21] Guar gum
- [22] Sodium metabisulphite
Terms
- [23] palmitic acid
- [24] a saturated fatty acid
- Produced (alongside Ascorbic Acid) by eating Ascorbyl Palmitate.
- [25] fatty acid
Preserving
- Smoking
- Drying
- Salting
- TODO
Freezing
Long-duration freezing must be -18°C or colder.
- [27] National Center for Home Food Preservation: How Do I? ...Freeze
Working rant
Why are you fat?
You are an expression of your culture.
Born into it by accident, then forced upon you, then reinforced, and probably accepted and colluded with.
Our culture is pervasive, and very few people commit themselves to culture jamming.
The culture expresses itself in all the things related to your physique.
There is a chain of things from the source to your physique. The way food is selected, created, grown, packaged, labelled, stored, shipped, purchased, prepared, served, eaten. The times for meals, the amount of meals, the mix of foods. The very tools you cook your foods with, or eat your foods with.
When that culture is toxic, it taints everything on that chain.
What can be done? Become aware of the culture, and of that chain. Identify and closely examine the philosophies at the most rudimentary levels.
The open free market encourages cheap products and cheap practises. Food laws are based solely around basic public safety.. everything else is a matter of appeasing the public, which can be strongly directed through advertising. Most of our "old ways" have been completely consumed by this culture. Who cooks from scratch anymore? Don't talk to me about time, you can find the time.. it's not even hard to do so.
Resources
- [29] Food Additives
- [30] Canadian Government: Healthy Canadians
- [31] Canadian Government: Food Safety
- Safe food handling and preparation. A portal to other government resources.
- [32] Canadian Government: Health Canada > Food and Nutrition
- [37] American Government: National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Has various "how to" topics.
- [38] Canadian Government: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- For things like crop information.
- [39] The 100 Mile Diet
- Only eat foods produced within 100 miles.
- [40] The Hour : Barbara Kingsolver
- She lived for a year like this.
this is a jumping-point to all sorts of topics
- [41] Health Canada: Healthy Living
