Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Food - Wood fragrances Cuisine


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The Food - No need to wonder if there is a dish that uses this type of wood as a seasoning. Cinnamomum Verum Latin name, not only smells delicious but kalu who has been added to the dish would be more delicious! Want to try?

If you often make setup tape or cookies may be familiar with this spice. Yak, Cinnamomum Verum or Cinnamoman Burmani Latin name, better known by the term cinnamon. Do you imagine then that the use actually stem wood, but the part used is the bark that is peeling and dry.

In the mountains of the Kerinci, known for good-quality cinnamon. From the results of an abundance of cinnamon also be exported in addition to cinnamon oil and cinnamon syrup. Syrup is similar to maple syrup, brown and thick with a strong sweet taste.

In addition to delicious dishes to be used as seasonings, spices that have properties slightly sweet spicy flavor with a strong fragrance was also saving millions of properties that are good for health loh! Perhaps this is because the chemical constituents such as essential oil, safrole, sinamadehide, eugenol, tannin, resin, calcium oksanat.

According to health experts, cinnamon efficacious drug for gout, high blood pressure, heartburn, no appetite, headache (Vertigo), colds, diarrhea, flatulence, vomiting, hernia, constipation, asthma, ulcers , painful urination, and others.

If cinnamon mixed with food, the effect will menimblkan fresh, fragrant and delicious cuisine. But you should pay attention to the provision of cinnamon in the dish should be the correct amount. For example, for cooking soup, mix the cinnamon sticks about 5 cm to one liter of liquid material.

For bread, cake or cookies simply add at least a teaspoon of cinnamon powder or adjust the recipe. If you give too much cinnamon flavor and aroma will eliminate the native cooking or baking.

Typically, the flavor and aroma of cinnamon powder sharper than cinnamon sticks. However, cinnamon powder can not survive long because of cinnamon powder can easily be damaged and be bland aroma of cinnamon. So, should keep the cinnamon sticks and dry powder in a sealed container and store in dry place not exposed to direct sunlight.

Friday, May 25, 2012

The Food - Beyond Restaurant Serves Food in Nutrition Needs


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The Food - Eating in restaurants is a fun activity. In addition to setting menyengkan menimati customers will also get a lot of food portions. But the portions served in restaurants exceeds nutritional needs.

Many restaurants offer a full menu of American racing in large portions. The portion in excess of that recommended by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). Average saturated fat and sodium. This analysis has also been published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.

"If you eat out at night, you will not find a healthy meal." explained Helen Wu, a researcher and assistant analyst told USA Today.

Wu and colleagues evaluated the regular menu items 28 433 and 1833 children's menu in 245 restaurants in the U.S. in February and May 2010. Most of the nutritional value of food under the average of the recommended USDA is about 667 calories.

Restaurants that have been evaluated do not meet the standards. Most contain saturated fat and sodium. The Government recommends that no more than 767 mg of sodium in the diet.

The average sodium contained in a pack of food can reach 1512 mg. While the amount of saturated fat