Eating – Sub Topics

Who says white can’t be red? Scientists at the Technion-Israel institute of Technology created a kosher white wine with all of the beneficial health effects of red wine by adding skins of chardonnay or Muscat grapes (which are white or yellow) to the alcohol for the flavonoids, The wine is available under the Binyamina Winery...

Wine scares many people. They envision snobbish wine store clerks, $200 bottles, and the need to know whether there are hints of chocolate, raspberry, or dirty old socks in the “bouquet.” The truth is that you don’t need to know much about wine to enjoy it; just find out which types of wines you like...

Which fruits and veggies pack the most powerful antioxidant punch? Researchers at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University figured it out by measuring various fruits and vegetables for their “oxygen radical absorbance capacity,” a fancy way of saying their antioxidant power. Here are the top 10 performers in each category: Fruits...

Remember when eggs were off limits because of their cholesterol content (one large whole egg contains about 213 grams)? Well, not only are eggs back—with studies finding that even two eggs a day have no effect on cholesterol—but certain eggs are actually beneficial. That’s because some farmers have begun producing so-called “designer” eggs, extra high...

Hearing you need to get nine or more servings of fruits and vegetables can be daunting. But consider the definitions of a serving (below) from the National Cancer Institute. All varieties of fruits and vegetables—fresh, frozen, canned, dried, and 100 percent juice—count. One medium-size fruit (apple, orange, banana, pear). ‘/o cup of raw, cooked, canned...

Breads that say multigrain, seven-grain, nutra-grain, cracked wheat, stone-ground wheat, or enriched wheat must fill the bill, right? Wrong. Unless the word whole appears in the first ingredient, the bread is lacking some of the vitamins and minerals, not to mention fiber, of whole grains. Even a dark brown bread is no guarantee of whole...