Researchers have found a way to reduce saturated fat, sugar, and salt in popular American foods without sacrificing taste, by replacing these elements with herbs and spices. Blind taste tests confirmed that participants preferred or found the modified dishes equally enjoyable as the original recipes, and modeling suggested these changes could substantially reduce daily intake of unhealthy nutrients if widely adopted. In reaction to the 1990s’ obsession with low-fat diets, numerous food manufacturers eliminated saturated fats from their items, substituting […]
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High in saturated fat and calories, whipped cream is an indulgence for most consumers, who have turned to ‘better-for-you’ low-fat options or dairy-free alternatives made from coconut or palm oils as a replacement. However, these replacements have never quite delivered on taste and texture or nutrition (as some coconut-based creams contain at least 25% fat), argued researchers at The University of Copenhagen. “The most difficult aspect of developing an alternative food is getting the texture right. Whipped cream undergoes a […]
Quinoa, that nutty sweet seed we curiously refer to as a grain, has shot up the food chain from obscure California-hipster dish to an American culinary mainstay. Its popularity has now reached the level that the people who decide such things have officially ascribed a national day in January to institutionalize its consumption, which, unlike other arbitrary consumer days (looking at you, Slurpee Day), might actually be a good thing, considering the seed’s impressive profile of nutrition, with B vitamins, […]
