KTK-Nutrition

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...

Picnics.   Who doesn’t enjoy a summer picnic?   Good eating and fun times with friends.   Send your friends and family home with good treats but not with food poisoning.   I tell my students the story of my daughter going to a friend’s house for a cookout.   Everyone had a great time with their friends.   But the next day my daughter felt sick.   She talked to some friends who had gone to the cook out and they were sick too.   The cook out resulted in food poisoning for all those who attended.   What went wrong?   Why did people who went to the cook out get sick?   Surely the hostesses didn’t’ intend to make everyone sick.   So what food safety precautions can you take to make sure your friends and family enjoy the cookout without getting sick once they get home?   Eat Right, the website of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, has a great article, Keep Your Picnic Safe .   USDA also has clear guidance and four s...

Who doesn’t like some fresh fruit?   My husband brought home a watermelon this week.   It was summer sweet.   All kinds of fruit will soon be coming your way as summer approaches; 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.   Consumer Reports has an excellent article on 100 calorie summer fruits (June 2018) and 100 calorie picnic foods .    If you are going on summer picnics or barbeques soon, read what a 100-calorie serving of barbeque foods look like.    Enjoy some 100-calorie fruit:   most fruit is so low in calories that you can eat a handful or more and enjoy a number of servings throughout the day.   Yes, fruit has “sugar” but this is the natural sugar, fructose.   It is the “added sugar” that we should be cutting back on, not the natural sugar in fruit.   Some people mistakenly believe f...