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…
Category: Israel
Why you want grass-fed butter and where to find it in Israel
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
Is “Gush Katif” Bug-Free Israeli Produce Safe to Eat?
Kosher With No Certificate, an article appearing online in Globes on June 19, 2014 and in the Sunday, June 22, 2014 Business & Finance section of The Jerusalem Post (where I saw it) answered a question that I’ve had for…
Posted in Food, Food safety, Israel Tagged with: GMOs, Gush Katif, Israel, Israeli Produce, Organic, Pesticides
Pesach Strategies for Eating Healthy & Shopping Smart
Pesach (Passover), especially for those of us who do not eat kitniyot (certain legumes, grains, and vegetables) and/or gebrochts, often find the holiday to be onerously heavy on the matzah and potatoes. Faced with what’s perceived as “the possibility of…
Posted in Food, Israel, Pesach, Recipes Tagged with: Carbohydrates, Chometz, Cooking for Pesach, Food, Gebrochts, Health, Israel, Kitniyot, Matzah, Passover, Pesach, Pesach shopping, Quinoa, Weight gain
Easy ways to boost your salad’s nutritional value
I recently received an email from one of my teenage nieces asking for some nutritious salad recipes that she could make with ingredients generally kept on hand. While salads, by definition, are considered to be healthy, it’s an unfortunate reality…
Posted in Fats and Oils, Food, Health and Wellness, Israel, Recipes Tagged with: Bertolli, Magnesium, oil-soluble vitamins, Olive oil, Omega-3 fatty acid, Omega-6 fatty acid, Organic, polyunsaturated fats, Salad, Salad oils, Zinc
Fortified Foods vs. Whole Foods – is there a difference?
Fortified Foods vs. Whole Foods – is there a difference? “Why are you even asking this?” you might be wondering. “After all, isn’t a whole foods diet what Nourishing Israel advocates and what Weston Price is all about – nutrient…
Posted in Food, Health and Wellness, Israel Tagged with: Ascorbic acid, Food, Fortifying food, Health, Himalayan Salt, Israel, Jerusalem Post, Natural vitamins, Nutritional deficiencies, Processed foods, Sea Salt, Sea vegetables, Synthetic vitamins, Table Salt, Vitamin, Vitamin C, Weston Price, White flour, White rice, White sugar, whole foods, Yael German
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