Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 The banana is an elongated, curved, tropical fruit with a smooth outer skin that peels off easily when the fruit is ripe. Bananas are harvested while still green, but they may be ripened under controlled conditions before being delivered to the grocery store. Yellow bananas are fully ripe when the skin has
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Working women wear ‘two’ many hats. They run the household and also pursue a career outside of their home to help support the family. It’s obviously a big challenge for them to juggling such a responsibility. Many of them skip meals to ‘make-do’ with time; this may sometimes cause nutritional imbalance, leading
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 There are two basic varieties of asparagus, white and green. The latter is the only variety cultivated on a commercial scale in the United States, whereas the former is much-favoured in Europe. White asparagus is produced by banking soil against the plant to keep out sunlight, which otherwise would turn the stalks
Words: Team ThinkWellness360 The apple, as The Encylopedia of Foods puts it, is a pome round fruit that consists of firm, juicy flesh covered by a thin, tough, edible skin and surrounding a cartilaginous, seeded core. The skin colour of apples can range from dark green to yellow to bright red, or some combination of
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Broccoli, a form of cabbage, of the mustard family [Brassicaceae], according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, is grown for its edible flower buds and stalk. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. Sprouting broccoli was cultivated in Italy in ancient Roman times. It was introduced to England and America in the
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Never mind the tears they bring on — besides adding oodles of taste to your food. Onions provide incredible health benefits. Onions are found in every kitchen — thanks to the delectable taste they bring to food. They also form the basis of several dishes — be it raw, cooked, sautéed, baked,
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Herbalists have traditionally used rosemary as an anti-fungal and antiseptic, and also as an effective herbal ‘ammo’ to improve memory, relieve muscle pain and spasm, activate hair growth, and support our circulatory and nervous systems. What’s more, rosemary, according to native medicine, is useful to ease menstrual cramps, enhance urine flow, and
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 What makes you appreciate the good taste of your chocolate ice-cream, or cherry cheesecake? It is zinc. Zinc allows you to savour the flavours of your food. Its deficiency may alter your taste. Recent studies have shown that zinc can ease symptoms of the common cold. Subjects who consumed zinc lozenges, or syrup,
Words: Team ThinkWellness360 The artichoke plant is an affiliate of the thistle, or sunflower family. The cones, or spherically-shaped buds, are enveloped by overlapping outer scales [bracts] and are eatable at the base. At the centre of the bud is an ‘uneatable’ thistle [choke]. The edible ‘heart’ of an artichoke is the round, tender, firm
Words: Kami McBRIDE One of the keys to kitchen medicine is having all of your culinary herbs and herbal blends organised and easily accessible, so you can add them to your food as often as possible. Have a variety of herbs next to your cooking area as well as on your table. You can put
