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Barley

Back-to-Basics Barley By Fiona Breslin Barley, perhaps best known as an essential ingredient for making beer, actually plays a wide variety of culinary roles. It’s a cereal grain similar to...

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All About Parmesan Cheese

When many of us think of Parmesan cheese we think of the powdery grated cheese we see in pizza parlors and pasta joints, or in shaker boxes on...

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Cucumbers

Cucumbers are relatives of melons. They are grown all over the world and are used for pickling, salads, and some harder varieties are even used in curries. They grow...

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Canned Tomatoes

Tomatoes are rich in the cancer-fighting phytonutrient lycopene, which gives tomatoes their vibrant, red color. Lycopene’s antioxidant properties have been studied for their potential anticancer properties, particularly in...

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Walnuts

Walnuts are part of the tree nut family, which includes Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, pine nuts, and pistachios.  All these tasty tree nuts provide phytochemicals and healthy...

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Cannellini Beans

Mild-flavored and creamy, cannellini beans are also known as white Italian kidney beans. Cannellini beans are an excellent source of fiber, protein, complex carbohydrates, plus research has found...

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Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi may not be one of the things you dash to the grocery for — heck, you may have never heard of this bulbous veg – but it’s...

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Are You Consuming Too Much Salt?

Salt.... Too Much, Just Right, or Not Enough Salt in its simplest form is sodium and chloride, which are both electrolytes and essential nutrients our bodies need to function...

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Peaches

To call someone “a peach” suggests that they are all things good, bundled up in one near-perfect package. There’s good reason for that: Not only are the sunny...

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Mad About Melons

Whether it’s watermelons, cantaloupes, or honeydews, melons of many stripes not only taste good but offer numerous benefits. Watermelons contain lycopene, the antioxidant touted for its anti-prostate cancer...

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Pumpkin

The pumpkin, along with its winter squash cousins butternut, acorn, and spaghetti, among others, is a delicious way to get a healthy helping of essential nutrients. The bright...

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Carrots

Mildly sweet and crunchy, the ever-constant carrot has been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes. High levels of beta-carotene, metabolized by the body into vitamin A,...