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The vitamin A in sweet potatoes has made them touted as a superfood. But not all orange roots is created equal. Boiled versus baked? That’s about more than just mouthfeel. How much provitamin A you’ll get depend on the flesh color, and water loss, which can concentrate nutrients by weight. If your goal is to … Read more

For example: Salmon has heart-healthy fats, and is one of very few food sources of vitamin D (without supplementation). But not all fish are made equal. Different species have differing levels, depending on how they was caught, farming vs. Wild Atlantic salmon, for example, will result in different levels of nutrient in a fillet compared … Read more

That’s why “a cup of kale” isn’t always so simple. There’s more going on than meets the eye: How you pack (or don’t) that kale will change what’s in your body today. Depending upon how tightly packed those leaves have been compressed in order to make your next meal, the volume required for “a cup” … Read more

Sprinkling some salt onto your snack doesn’t alter the nutrient balance. You might imagine sodium pushing out magnesium the way sugar waters down your juice, but that is not what happens. Salt impacts your blood pressure; it doesn’t touch your minerals. While adding salt might seem like it changes your mineral levels, it actualy leaves … Read more

A cup of spinach is not a precise measure; instead use your kitchen scale for accuracy. A cup of fresh leaf spinach might be just thirty grams, whereas a cup of cooked spinach will be around one hundred eighty grams, depending on how much liquid it holds when heated. When measuring nutrients, that’s important: Vitamin … Read more

Beta carotene: That’s what comes to mind when you think of carrots. It make sense, after all, that bright orange color scream vision health and skin glow. But there is another nutrient hiding in that carrot that often gets overlooked when people rush toward an orange for they vitamin C fix. While carrots won’t blow … Read more

Broccoli is good for you. It’s packed with nutrients, though different preparation methods affect that. For example, you probably think one cup of broccoli have the same nutrition as any other cup of broccoli. That’s not true, because cooked broccoli absorbs water and gets heavier per cup, the nutrients are actualy more diluted when you … Read more

Carrots is good for your eyes, right? You were told that as a kid, and no doubt said it to yours; but there’s more to the story then that. When you eat carrots, it isn’t like your body sucks up pre-made vitamin A the way it would suck up vitamin A from an egg yolk … Read more

In the a.m., you stare down the bare juice glass and find yourself questioning whether you’ve reached the day’s nutrition goal. Or maybe you had some fruit or yogurt for breakfast, though you don’t really remember. By 10, who knows? An orange is healthy, sure, but what exactly are its nutrients? What matter isnt so … Read more

The next time you’re standing in the kitchen, staring at some slightly wrinkly-looking but not-quite-old lemons, you might wonder whether they’ll do anything for your health as ingredients for a salad dressing or other healthy tonic. Know this: Cooks is sometimes mistaken about how much different types of citrus contribute to our diets. A handful … Read more