KTK-Nutrition

Enjoy that pasta and cover it with some spaghetti sauce.   How healthy is spaghetti sauce?   Are some brands healthier than others?   What should you look for when buying spaghetti sauce? Is spaghetti sauce healthy? Yes.   Spaghetti sauce provides vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants.   All good for your health.    Vitamins :   Spaghetti sauce is full of a number of vitamins like vitamins A, C and K.   A half cup serving of spaghetti sauce supplies about 10 mg of vitamin C.   An important vitamin for collagen formation and our immune system.   A half cup supplies about 1000 IU of vitamin A or about 20% of what you need each day.   Vitamin A helps us see at night and for our skin as it builds the connective tissue under our skin.   I always tell my students to eat carrots for healthier skin but I can add eat some spaghetti with tomato sauce on it for healthier skin.   Vitamin K – lots of it in spaghet...

How healthy is the pasta in your spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, rigatoni, and other pasta dishes?   So many people have been avoiding pasta as it is a “carb” and they think carbs are unhealthy.   Americans still enjoy their pasta as we eat about 20 pounds of it a year.   How healthy is pasta? Pasta provides a lot of nutrition.   Not just carbs but also protein, about 5-7 grams of protein in a cup of cooked pasta.   The flour used to make pasta is a high protein durum wheat flour which is higher in protein than other types of flour. If you want to add more nutrition to your spaghetti or pasta dish, add some whole wheat pasta.   We usually use about ¾ white pasta and about ¼ whole wheat pasta.   Some people use all whole wheat pasta but it is a taste one needs to get used to.   Most people hardly notice if you add just a little whole wheat pasta.   Even the white pasta provides some fiber.   And pasta is enriched with some B ...