Food

5 Foods to Help Relieve Your Worries About Hypertension

Patients with hypertension are increasing nowadays, while the age of onset is getting lower. Some people get hypertension by heritage, some by improper diet. It is important to seek medical advice for the causes. 5 foods that might help lower hypertension 1. Celery Celery is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin P, ...

Audrey Wang

Taste Makinohara Tea, the Finest Tea in Japan

The town of Makinohara is recognized as Japan’s greatest area for tea cultivation. Makinohara tea is considered the finest tea in Japan. The abundance of tea plantations that border the highways and fill the region make it possible to smell the fragrance of tea in the air. Makinohara is a great place for tea production ...

Trisha Haddock

Paneer Butter Masala Recipe

Originating in the northern regions of India, paneer butter masala is one of the most famous dishes in the country. The combination of cream and paneer cubes (Indian cottage cheese) with aromatic spices ensures that anyone who tastes it will definitely want to eat more. And if you are looking to prepare an Indian curry ...

Nspirement Staff

Magical Blue Tea!

Introducing the magical Butterfly Pea Blue Tea. Put a scoop of this tea into a teapot or cup and when you pour in the hot water, it transforms into an electric blue color. It is sure to bring a smile to your face. You’ll like the tea before you even taste it! Now for the ...

Trisha Haddock

Know Your Chowders: Maine vs. Boston

I have groaned aloud deploring the state of modern chowder making. Being from coastal Maine, I know of what I speak and have appealed to anyone who still knows how to make a proper chowder that they seize the moment with the next susceptible young person they meet up with and teach the art before ...

David Clapp

Shanghai Soup Dumplings

To make Shanghai soup dumplings or xiao long bao, you would normally mix ground pork with a thick pork aspic (made by boiling pork skin, fat, and feet for hours) and wrap it in a thin purse of dough. As the dumplings steam, the aspic melts into a soup. This approach can make a delicious ...

Nspirement Staff

Sweet Potato Recipe Ideas

Sweet potatoes can be a delicious healthy part of anyone’s diet. They contain more potassium than bananas, the “go-to” food for people wanting to increase their dietary intake of this mineral. Studies have shown that increasing potassium intake leads to lower blood pressure. It can also increase insulin sensitivity, which is good news for people ...

Mikel Davis

Whole and cut sweet potatoes.

Is Food Packaging Affecting Nutrient Absorption in Your Body? Maybe

Food packaging may be be having an impact on your body’s nutrient absorption. “We found that zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles at doses that are relevant to what you might normally eat in a meal or a day can change the way that your intestine absorbs nutrients or your intestinal cell gene and protein expression,” said ...

Troy Oakes

In India, Chai Is Everything!

In India, tea, locally known as chai, is everything! There are multiple preparations; however, the most popular concoction is a thick sweet drink that is consumed at regular intervals every day no matter the time or occasion. About 79 percent of non-alcoholic beverage consumption in India is ruled by chai, which amounts to a total ...

Emma Lu

Cocoa Bean Roasting Can Preserve Both Health Benefits and Taste

Manipulating the temperature and the length of time for cocoa bean roasting can simultaneously preserve and even boost the potency of some bioactive and antioxidant compounds while protecting desired sensory aspects of chocolate, according to Penn State researchers. That finding flies in the face of previous studies that indicate that roasting always results in a ...

Troy Oakes