Sunday, October 5, 2008

Nutrition: Sprouts


Video about healthy food:

In spite of the fact we are in crisis we shouldn't forget healthy food.
Slow economy doesn't mean unhealthy food.





Today we’ve been talking about a curious kind of food: Sprouts. Different sprouts have been mentioned as buckwheat lettuce, garlic chives, golden alfalfa, curly kale, daikon radish or crimson clover. They are considerate as “awesome” food. They are also easy digestive an they are loaded with vitamins (as vitamin c, vitamin D, antioxidants, bioflavinoids and chemo- protectants as nitrosamines and isoflavone).
They seen for most of people nasty food but they are very healthy. They can help overcome health problems. The best of all is, they are high in fibre and low in calories.

In contrast with this idea I would like to talk about junk food as an unhealthy food. Wherever you go you can see Mc Donald, Pizza Hut, Burger King, between others. In my personal opinion habits of eating are changing. I think it is not an affair! Sometimes because we’re lazy, or because we don’t have too much time to eat or too cook, we look the best excuse to eat this kind of food.
Although this food could have a better taste, smell and texture than sprouts it would be a good idea to sit back and have a breather once in a while. We have to thing how and what we are eating!

Anyway my favourite dishes are “Noodles in fish stock” and “Spinach with raisins and pine nuts”. They are really nice and healthy. Don’t you think so?

Some adjectives to describe food, I have learned preparing this lesson and, I want to share with you are:

Taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, fermented, sweet, tasty, savoury, pleasant, nice, stale, hot, cold, fine, delicious, spicy, tasteless, fishy, bland, juicy

Texture: hard, tough, dense, slimy, slick, soft, slick, slippery, glossy, light, mushy, fresh, crunchy, burnt, rotten, crispy, raw, tangy, smooth, sticky, lumpy, dry, chewy, bubbly, creamy.

Do you know what do they mean?
Best wishes
Sunshine

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