There was a surprise in store for me when I scrutinized the yogurt (יוֹגוּרט – yogurt) container. What I discovered might surprise you, too. In the United States in the late ’70s, Dannon yogurt featured commercials extolling the longevity of Soviet…
Author: Caryn
Why Some Israeli Yogurts Aren’t Really Yogurt
Posted in Blog, Food, Gut Health, Nutrition, Uncategorized Tagged with: bio yogurt, cow yogurt, goat yogurt, Halav Haaretz, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Probiotics, sheep yogurt, Streptococcus thermophilus, yoghurt, yogurt
Are Your Gut Microflora Doing the Happy Dance?
Did you know that inside your intestinal walls is a humongous community of microflora that largely determines your health? It’s true. While we think that the food we eat is just for us, we are really feeding a whole little…
Posted in Blog, Gut Health, Health and Wellness Tagged with: Bacteria, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, Fermented Foods, Fungi, GAPS, Gut, Intestinal Bacteria, Intestinal tract, Kefir, Kombucha, Microbiome, Microbiota, Microflora, Pickles, Probiotics, Protozoa, Sauerkraut, Weston Price
Why you want grass-fed butter and where to find it in Israel
One of the important foods that people often search for is butter (חֶמאָה – chem’ah) from pastured cows because it is a rich source of Vitamins A, D, and K2, as well as many other nutrients. The color of the butter…
Posted in Fats and Oils, Food, Israel, Nutrition, Uncategorized Tagged with: Beurre De Normandie, CAFOs, Chemah Hollandit, cows, dairy cows, Elle & vire, European butter, grass-fed butter, Israeli butter, Israeli cows, Lurpak, Makabi, pastured butter, President Butter, Tnuva, Tnuva butter, Weston A. Price, white butter, yellow butter
Kitchen Sink Salad
Well, okay… Everything but the kitchen sink. In the run-up before Pesach, or any time you might have little bits of food left over that you don’t want to throw out, turn them into a salad. (This also works for…
Don’t Get Stuck in the Oil Aisle
There are some different salad and cooking oils appearing on the grocery shelves before Pesach, ones that aren’t usually sold during the rest of the year (or at least not in abundance). They are available, primarily, for the benefit of Ashkenazi consumers…
Posted in Blog, Fats and Oils, Food, Food safety, Pesach Tagged with: Coconut oil, cold pressed, corn oil, cottonseed oil, extra virgin olive oil, grapeseed oil, hydrogenated oil, Olive oil, Palm Oil, Pesach, walnut oil expeller pressed
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