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With more consumers demanding for gluten-free products the researchers at the University of Barcelona’s Food Technology Plant Special Research Center have reported to have launched the latest high-quality, gluten-free bread for people with celiac disease. Facts provided crisply point out the aim of providing bread fortified with extra nutrients minus the gluten with the texture and taste similar to traditional breads.

Earlier food production reports about similar gluten-free breads with not only the texture and flavor or texture of traditional breads but also with gourmet value.

Therefore, there is nothing new in this bread and for that matter this bread does not claim of the trendy flavors to appeal consumers, who choose from a bulk of gluten-free breads today.

This bread can however thrive in the baked foods sector with improvisation in variety with respect to flavor and flour, though a lot depends on whether it does better than other artisan breads.

Citrus fruits can act as stimulants, cold drinks, used as an appetizer, in salads as well used as an important ingredient in most of the Indian recipes. The lemon juice as well as the grape fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Drinking juices may reduce the risk of Alzheimer. Orange and grape fruit may reduce osteoporosis.

The pickles too make use of citrus family fruits.
The recipe of a pickle using ginger and dates.
The recipe:

Main ingredients needed are:
Oil- 3-5 tbsp
Grated Ginger - 250gms
Dates cut in to slices-500gms
According to taste
Salt
Chilly powder
Red Chilies
Turmeric
Sauf
Methi powder -100gms
Grape fruit needed to squeeze juice.
Juice of grape fruit- 1lt
Molasses obtained from sugarcane.

Method for preparation
Take the oil in a pan.
Heat it and add the juice, then add salt so that it does not turn bitter.
Add turmeric powder, Sauf.
Add the molasses product for sweetness.
Add Methi powder.
Add chilly powder and the red chilies.
Add dates.

The Miso-nikomi Udon is the Japanese noodles with some chicken. Traditional Miso-nikomi Udon is a thick hard noodle cooked together with thin strips of fried bean-curd and slices of leeks in a bouillon of bonito, flavored with a dark-colored, strong-tasting bean paste, called Haccho Miso.
Using raw vegetables and noodles. Healthy and full of proteins. One can cook this dish without using chicken.

The Recipe:

400gms of (thick wheat noodles)
1/2 cup sauce
400gms-Chicken boneless cut into small pieces-
1 tbsp Asian Sesame oil
2 tbsp chilly garlic paste
2 tsp roasted sesame seeds (optional)
250gms-Green vegetables
100gms- Green coriander leaves
3-5Florets of Broccoli

Preparation

Cook the chicken in boiled water for around three to five minutes. Add the green vegetables. Drain water, return water to a boil and cook noodles until tender (check often). Reserve 1 cup cooking water and then drain noodles in colander and rinse under hot water.
Add sesame oil, chilly garlic paste and 1/3 cup cooking water to chicken and stir to combine. Garnish with sesame seeds, coriander leaves and florets of broccoli. If your soup of needled is absorbed then add boiled water to it and serve hot.

Bell pepper is of three basic types - red, green, yellow and many more. Each has its own taste and medicinal value, plus the delicacy of being delicious too. Bell pepper is most commonly known as the capsicum as it is derived from the capsicum plant. Bell pepper contains a recessive gene which eliminates the capsaicin in the fruit.

Capsaicin:
The chemical compound capsaicin (8- methyl- N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) which is the active component of the chili peppers. It is an irritant to mammals and produces a burning sensation to the human tissues when brought in contact. Capsaicin and several related compounds are called capsaicinoids and are produced as a secondary metabolite, by chili peppers, probably as deterrents against herbivores. Pure capsaicin is a hydrophobic, colorless, odorless, and crystalline to waxy compound.
Medical:

Capsaicin is currently used in topical ointments to relieve the pain of peripheral neuropathy such as post-herpetic neuralgia caused by shingles. It may be used in concentrations of between 0.025% and 0.075%.
Herpes Zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is the reactivation of the virus varicella zoster, leading to a crop of painful blisters over the area of dermatome.
It may also be used as a cream for the temporary relief of minor aches and pains of muscles and joints associated with arthritis, simple backache, strains and sprains. The treatment typically involves the application of a topical anesthetic until the area is numb. Then the capsaicin is applied by a therapist wearing rubber gloves and a face mask. The capsaicin remains on the skin until the patient starts to feel the “heat”, at which point it is promptly removed. Capsaicin is also available in large adhesive bandages that can be applied to the back.
The result appears to be that the nerves are overwhelmed from the burning sensation and are unable to report pain for an extended period of time. With chronic exposure to capsaicin, neurons are depleted of neurotransmitters and it leads to reduction in sensation of pain and blockade of neurogenic inflammation. If capsaicin is removed, the neurons recover.
Capsaicin is being explored as a cure for diabetes by researchers in Toronto, Canada
After knowing about the values I would like to introduce a cuisine of this special fruit, which can be used in salads, deserts as well as a vegetable.

Some of the ingredients required are:
The main ingredient Bell pepper (Any) small slices.
Chopped union into small pieces - 50-75gms.
Chopped tomato too in small pieces -50 -75gms.
Chopped/sliced ginger - 50gms.
Oil/ghee as you require.
Jeera -a pinch of it.
Curd - two tea spoons.
Soya sauce, chilly sauce, vinegar according to your taste.

Preparation:
Take some oil/ghee in a pan and warm it.
Add Jeera and sliced /chopped ginger.
Add bell pepper .
Cook it for 5-10 min.
Add curd.
Add Soya sauce, chilly sauce, vinegar according to your taste.
Garnish with chopped tomato.
The dish is ready to be served.

The king of Vitamins (well almost) is Vitamin C. And, the good old Guava has a whole lot of it.

One large guava (820g) contains 1,221mg of vitamin C, whereas the recommended daily adequate intake levels of vitamin C is around 100mg. Therefore, all one needs to eat is a 100g slice of guava and be rest assured that your body has met with its vitamin C needs for the day.

The vitamin C is found in the whole fruit, not just in the skin. But, its Vitamin C content declines if the fruit is overripe.

Vitamin C functions as an antioxidant in the body which is critical for good immune functions and maintaining good health.

Quercetin is another highly sought after nutrient in guava. Many medicinal plants owe much of their activities to their high quercetin content.

Guava’s dietary fibre does more than prevent constipation. It lowers cholesterol levels and binds toxic residues and cancer-causing chemicals in the colon. In this way, guava may help us to maintain a healthy colon.

A drink of cool guava juice combats sore throat, while chewing the crunchy fruit is good exercise for the jaws and believed to be beneficial to brain functions. Also, the various components of its acids clean the teeth and gums, thus freshening the mouth and healing mouth ulcers.

That is guava at its greatest. So next time you pass a fruit shop, don’t forget to pick up the delicious Vitamin Cs.

Via: WN Network

Followed by sickness from foods consumed at Taco Bell in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, Taco Bell has reportedly withdrawn green onions from its foodstuff, which an independent lab report has claimed to be strained with the E.coli bacteria. Though Taco Bell remains to be anything but guilty in its tone, by calling the lab reports to be inconclusive, yet facts provide that Taco Bell had opened its outlets in Long Island, N.Y., restaurants linked to the E. coli outbreak.

Present status of inquiry provided for tracking of the source of bacteria. But it becomes quite obvious that Taco Bell, which had recently announced the ban of Trans fats, had been careless in the most prevalent problem of food contamination. Briefly, the string of E coli outbreak should have cautioned the food chain enough, not to have opened its outlet in the E coli affected area.

There are great ways to cook cottage cheese and one of my favorite is having them cooked in lots of peas,tomatoes and chilies. The recipe is as follows:

Ingredients

Mashed Cottage Cheese
Mashed Green Peas
Chopped Tomatoes
Chopped Green Chilies
Chopped Coriander Leaves
Chopped Onions
Ginger-garlic Paste
Coriander Powder
Turmeric Powder
Allspice Powder
Mustard Oil
Salt

Method

1. Fry onions in oil until brown.

2. To it add chopped tomatoes, green chilies and coriander leaves. Slow cook until the tomatoes become pulpy.

3. Add ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder and coriander powder. Slow cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.

4. Add cottage cheese, green peas, salt and allspice powder. Cook this mixture over slow fire, taking care that the mixture does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

5. Slow cook for 10 minutes and serve with pilaf or brown bread.

Thanksgiving leftover is given a new angle as an article in The Washington Times speaks of adding them to soups instead of sandwiches. The claim here is that leftovers dry out in sandwiches and their addition to soups adds enough moisture to them to keep them juicy. The different ways to add leftovers to soups are as follows:

1. Add mashed potatoes instead of cornstarch to thicken soups.

2. You can always add turkey instead of chicken breast in the soups.

3. Leftover turkey can be added to broth of the soups to add flavor.

4. You can also crispy fry the turkey leftovers and top your soups with it.

5. Leftover mashed potatoes and turkey taste wonderful with mushrooms and seasonal vegetables.

Health Board in New York is reported to be all set with the approval of the first Trans fat ban in the New York city, with a slight probability of relaxing the original time limit given to the restaurants and food chains to chuck out Trans fats. Facts provide that the 24,000 restaurants in New York have apparently put up a proposal for extending the given timeline of six months to replace cooking oils and shortening and 18 months to eliminate trans fats.

Doubtless that the decision of removing trans fats means more than switching to healthier ingredients, but food chains like McDonalds have taken more than 3 years to give a commitment on a healthy oil switch, with Wendy’s, KFC and Taco Bell already up with their new oils along with the consent of their consumers.

The bottom-line that has to be understood by the restaurateurs and food chains is that the trans fats issue is not new and the rise in signs of bad cholesterol would in case motivated the health board to call it an end through a ban.

However, if the health board relaxes the timeline the restaurants have to gear-up themselves to serve fast foods with alternative ingredients to saturated fats or change their menu to healthier fast foods. In any case retsurants do not have much choice to face the penalty if they do not come up with healthier alternatives within the timeline.

Indian restaurant Tamarai at Covent Garden London is reported to have been awarded the prestigious Food Oscar by The Independent newspaper, for having the best wine collection in London. Facts provide that wine correspondent Tim Atkins had compiled the list of 150 wines, which apparently from the store at the Old World Hospitality run Indian restaurant.

Being an outsider to the wine world, it might have taken a good deal for a good oenologist to collect the finest wines for an Indian restaurant, beating the British in their own wine collection, especially considering the fact that British have always overlooked their good wines.