KTK-Nutrition

This week my daughter asked me to do some research on the benefits of sugar free wine.  I had not even heard that this was a new thing.   Seems odd as who ever heard of wine having a lot of sugar?   Curious, I did do some research on the subject.   If you Google “sugar free wine” you will find a lot of topics coming up including:            Dry Farm Wine – Sugar Free Organic Wine   Keto Friendly-Zero Sugar Wine   Sugar Free Wines     If you enjoy drinking some wine, should you even be concerned about the sugar in wine?   Do some wines have added sugar? Those interested in a more detailed explanation of “sugar” in wines, can read the full article, Don’t Trust ‘Sugar-Free’ Wine   which provides an excellent explanation of the natural sugar in wines and the added sugar in some wines. Natural sugar in wines .   Most people know wine is made from grapes.   All grapes contain the natur...

Who doesn’t like some fresh fruit?   This week my husband stopped at the farmer’s market and brought home fresh raspberries, fresh yellow plums, peaches, and fresh corn in the husk.   He also brought home a fresh watermelon. The fruit and especially the watermelon were summer sweet.   Our neighbor just rang our doorbell and gave us some home-grown tomatoes.   All kinds of fruit will be coming your way during the summer months:   strawberries ripened on the vine, cherries from Washington, blueberries from Michigan.   Not only is fruit delicious, it is super healthy, low in fat and low in calories.   A few years back, Consumer Reports had an excellent article on 100 calorie summer fruits (June 2018) and 100 calorie picnic foods .    If you are going on summer picnics or barbeques this summer, read what a 100-calorie serving of barbeque foods look like.   Enjoy some 100-calorie fruit :   What about the “sugar” in fruit? Most frui...

  So often I hear people say they had some juice to drink and when I ask them what juice, they respond with lemonade or a fruit punch.   Neither lemonade or fruit punch are real juice but mostly sugar water.   Students in my class have to keep a 24-hour record of all the foods and beverages they eat.   They then put the foods and beverages into the right food group.   A student put a well-known brand of fruit punch under fruit as she thought it was a juice.   I looked up the ingredients and there was actually no fruit and no juice in this beverage.   It was just flavored sugar water.   This student actually had no fruit or juice in her diet that day. How do you know if what you are drinking is real juice?   Consumer Reports has a great article, Decoding Fruit Juice Labels that helps you understand what is real juice, part juice and just flavored sugar water.   100% Juice – this is the healthy choice as it is all juice with no added...