A glossary of the most common food ingredients with bizarre names. Find out how the ingredients are derived, their potential benefits, and their risks.
Tag Archives: Nutrition
Food Cravings and What They Mean
How to decipher what your body is trying to tell you.
Getting Started With Livestock Part 3: Diet
Tips for finding the right balance of pasture, harvested forages, feed, and supplements for your animals.
Pros and Cons of Drinking Coffee
Is drinking coffee good for your health? Or is it bad for you? Often, we seem to receive conflicting information on this subject from the media. And while there are good reasons we probably really don’t want a straight answer to the question…some of us are just too curious to resist the urge to digContinue reading “Pros and Cons of Drinking Coffee”
Why the Human Body Needs Cholesterol
The crucial heath roles of a much-maligned nutrient.
Beef Tenderness and the Shear Force Test
Tenderness is critical to the meat-eating experience—nobody enjoys sinking their teeth into a tough steak. A tried-and-true method of testing beef tenderness is the plain old taste test. These days, however, there are ways to objectively measure the precise tenderness of a cut of beef. The Warner-Bratzler Shear Force Test The Warner-Bratzler shear force testContinue reading “Beef Tenderness and the Shear Force Test”
Beef Cattle Talk: A Glosssary
From 3 in 1 to heterosis to yield grade, all those confusing cattle terms you have wondered about.
Eat Your Colors: Blue and White, Plus Menu Tips
The second of a two-part series on the benefits of eating the rainbow.
C:N Ratios of Common Organic Materials
How a little math can help you build your best compost pile ever.
Eat Your Colors: Red, Orange, and Green
The first of a two-part series on the benefits of eating the rainbow.
