Top Ten Natural Antibiotics (PART I)

Hippocrates said, “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.” Never is this more true than providing what your bod...

Top 10 Facts About Rice

1. Rice has been feeding us for 5,000 years. The first known account was in China about 2,800 BC. 2. Rice has been found in med...

AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF HONEY

NATURE'S ENERGY BOOSTER The benefits of honey go beyond its great taste. A great natural so urce of carbohydrates which provid...

TYPES OF MARGARINE AND BUTTER (DON’T BE CONFUSED!)

Still a lot of people out there are confused between margarine and butter and their different uses. Whereas butter is made from the b...

SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE “HEALTHIER” RICE FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS

Rice is widely consumed in Asian countries as the main dish in everyday meal and the biggest source of carbohydrate intake by most of...

IS INSTANT NOODLE REALLY CAUSING HEALTH PROBLEMS?

Well, before we start discussing it, you probably aware and familiar about this topic. Some people said instant noodle is the cau...

Crab Sticks Aren't Even Crab!!!

Crab sticks (imitation crab meat, seafood sticks, krab) are a form of kamaboko, a processed seafood made of finely pulverized white fish...

Change Your Dietary Practices to Avoid Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD)

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is one of major nutritional problem in Southeast Asia. The signs and symptoms of VAD are xerophthalmia, nigh...

Fun Food Facts For Kids: Part II

In this part of this series we are talking about some food facts for kids, talking about cooking, vegans, food allergy and many more Hum...

Fun Food Facts For Kids: Part I

Enjoy these fun food facts for kids. Learn a range of interesting facts about food and nutrition, topics that play an important role in ev...

The potential of winged bean as functional food: Part III (end)

Lectin Lectins are sugar-binding proteins which are highly specific for their sugar moieties . They typically play a role in biologic...

FOOD FACTS: Why garlic makes your breath smell bad and more

Initially, most of the bad breath resulting from eating garlic comes directly form the sulphuric compounds introduced into your mouth...

Why Do Chili Peppers Taste Hot?

The culprit of the burning feeling you get from jalapeno-loaded Mexican food: chemical compounds called capsaicinoids. The odorless, fla...

The potential of winged bean as functional food: Part II

The Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), also known as the Goa bean (kacang botol in Malaysia) and Asparagus Pea and Winged Pea...

The potential of winged bean as functional food: Part I

Functional food science represents one of the more controversial areas of food and health because it suggests using food and the component ...