Carrot: Bites of goodness There’s a good reason why Bugs Bunny is shown chewing a carrot as its benefits are legendary. Carrot’s origin has a somewhat obscure history with its ancestry tracing back 5,000 years to central Asian and Middle…

Have you been told your cholesterol is too high? And has it been recommended that you take one of the cholesterol lowering drugs? Before you let yourself be scared into submission, let me show you a little more about the…

Star Fruit: Nature’s Shining Wonder Grown throughout Southeast Asia for centuries, star fruit is also known as carambola, which some say derived from a Sanskrit word “karmaranga” which means “food appetiser.” Its other names include belimbing, Chinese star fruit, five-angled…

You may have consumed them all this while without realising their inherent benefits. The positive effects of herbs and spices on our health has been recorded for ages and can be seen as the first ‘functional foods’ as they were…

I was reading a statistic in a nutrition book recently, and this is going to shock you… Now before I tell you the statistic, let’s keep an important fact in mind… according to well renowned nutrition author Michael Pollan, and…

We’ve all been there before. We consistently exercise, follow it up with a strict diet, and we see the changes in ourselves – a better look, a well-defined physique and the sense of more energy in our body. All is…

With the Pokka Tea range, you don’t have to wait till you’re at home or at a restaurant to drink tea. You can enjoy the goodness of fresh tea right from the Pokka tetra pack, can or bottle on the…

Kiwifruit: Hairy Outside, Zesty Inside Coming into prominence in the 20th century, Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) has been grown for almost 700 years in China. Its history began in the Yang-tse river valley in China, where it was known as Yang…

Bok Choy: The Versatile Favourite This vegetable has such an important influence that its Chinese name has become part of modern vocabulary. Brassica chinensis is the scientific name and it belongs to the plant family cruciferae, with other family members…

So what is this substance that we are so enthralled with? Crystalline white cane sugar is refined from the sugar cane by crushing the cane, processing the juice and evaporating it, then bleaching and deodorizing the resulting carbohydrate crystals until…