Patel

Standing in front of the fridge, you hold an apple: a Honeycrisp. Will it raise your blood-sugar level? Can you count it in your day’s allotment? How can one apple be one serving? That isnt obvious. Botany doesn’t agree with biology about what’s edible. Half the fruit’s fiber are on the peel. The core takes … Read more

What’s this? You’re in produce aisle, staring at red grapes. Will they count toward your carb allotment? It is an honest quandary, since nothing appears more innocently fruit-like than a fruit, until you read the label. Think of it: grapes are little bags of sugar encased in a delicate wrapping. Compared to something like melon … Read more

A lot of people think “oh I know, one cup of strawberries is X number of grams of carbs,” but that’s not true at all. It depends on whether you measured your fruit with leafy greens chopped off or not. It also depends on if it was frozen as a whole, a cut-up block, or … Read more

We tend to lump all oranges together as carbohydrate sources, which is true until someone squeezes one into a glass and drinks it, or cuts up some segments for a salad bowl. Drinking an orange’s liquid versus biting into the fruit itself isn’t merely a matter of mouthfeel; it’s a very different experience for your … Read more

But now you face a banana: Will it screw with your day’s carb allotment? Is it a risk? Or is there no way to know unless you grab it, look at it, and see it transform from a thing into something else? The problem isn’t the banana; it’s how much banana you actualy consume. A … Read more

Pick up a loaf of white bread and check out nutrition label. It says there’s two grams of protein per slice. You make yourself a sandwich with it and, an hour later, wonder what happened. The math adds up on paper, but your body sure doesn’t seem to agree. The reason is that most people … Read more

At its most basic level, most people treats a bagel like a carbohydrate delivery system. That’s what nutrition labels tell us. But what about the protein added by dough and toppings? When we look past that surface-level fact, we see that many morning sandwich are loaded with far more muscle fuel than folks realize. Those … Read more

Most folks believe bone broth is just a healthy version of flavored water, but it isn’t even close. What matter most is the gelatin extracted from the collagen-packed connective tissues and joints as they cook away during hours-long simmering sessions. This process transforms hard-to-digest structural proteins into digestible molecules that your body absorbs to improve … Read more

Sometimes it’s just some oatmeal in the mornings, or a blender jar full. But throw in some chia seeds? Then it gets interesting. Chia seeds have gotten lots of press over the years for being good for you. How much do you add? When does enough become too much? How do you get to the … Read more

Pasta manufacturers provides nutritional information for dry pasta, meaning the hard strands, but protein density change drastically during cooking. If you go solely based off of the box, you may be overestimating amount of nutrition you recieve. To better monitor your intake, learn what’s actualy being counted. Cooked pasta weigh double because it can absorbs … Read more