Posts covering ingredients found in food.
Reducing Agents In Baking
Baking is now one of the most popular pastimes and attracts great attention – it is justifiably a culinary skill. Baked goods such as bread, […]
Ingredients
Quillaia- A Vegan Foaming Agent
Quillaia is the milled inner bark or small stems and branches of the soapbark (Quillaja saponaria, Molina). Other names include Murillo bark extract, Panama bark extract, Vanilla extract, Quillaia extract, Quillay bark extract, and Soapbark extract. […]
The clove – a summary of its properties and benefits.
♦ Clove has important sensory, analgesic and health benefits. The clove bud (Eugenia caryophylata L. Merr. & Perry, Thunb.[Myrtaceae]) is often associated with apple desserts […]
The Importance Of Copper In Human Health
Copper isn’t often thought of as critical to human nutrition, in fact too much and it becomes severely toxic. However, amongst the many biological mechanisms […]
Origanum glandulosum
Origanum glandulosum Desf is a perrenial herb growing throughout Europe and North Africa. It is a source of antimicrobial essential oil. The oil was extracted […]
Protein Consumption Coupled To Weight Loss Or Weight Maintenance
When it comes to protein consumption as in body building or exercise, thoughts do not often turn to managing weight or even using it to […]
Carrageenans
Kappa-carrageenan is a hydrocolloid that is widely used in the food industry for its unique functional properties. Hydrocolloids are polysaccharides that have the ability to […]
White Lupin Protein Isolates
In this work the foaming ability of white lupin protein isolates was investigated in order to evaluate the potential use of these isolates as functional […]
Alum Root (Heuchera americana)
Wandering the gardens of Europe, I can never be surprised to see a plant which offers highly variegated leaves and very often almost fluorescent pink […]