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June 19, 2011
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Weekly Newsletter and Healthy Food Tip and Recipe.
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Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dessert tonight ...
Add a bit of sweet to your Healthiest Way of Eating with this mosaic of kiwifruit and strawberries. It takes just minutes to prepare and is full of health-promoting vitamin C. Most people don't realize that a kiwifruit has more vitamin C than an orange!
10-Minute Kiwi Mandala
Prep and Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
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Healthy Food Tip
Some manufacturers have added lutein to processed foods with good results. Lutein added to ready-to-eat cereals, for example, has been exposed to 350F (177C) heat for 15 minutes and then 200F (93C) heat for 90 minutes and remained essentially stable. It's also been added to the fruit filling of cereal bars with good results under similar conditions. Lutein in aged cheeses has also been show to be fairly stable.
Although I haven't seen any information on the boiling of eggs, I would suspect the lutein to be better preserved than ordinarily suspected. By the way, lutein-enriched eggs are currently available in the marketplace and offer up to 2 milligrams of lutein per 60 grams (about 1 jumbo egg).
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If you don't know what to serve for dessert tonight ...
Add a bit of sweet to your Healthiest Way of Eating with this mosaic of kiwifruit and strawberries. It takes just minutes to prepare and is full of health-promoting vitamin C. Most people don't realize that a kiwifruit has more vitamin C than an orange!
Prep and Cook Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 8-oz low-fat vanilla or soy yogurt
- 3 TBS fresh orange juice
- 1 TBS cream honey**
- 1/2 tsp grated orange rind*
- 1/4 tsp grated lemon rind*
- 1 kiwifruit
- 4 strawberries
- Optional: 2 TBS chopped walnuts or pecans, orange zest for topping
- In a small bowl, whisk the yogurt, orange juice, honey and grated orange and lemon rind, making sure the honey is completed blended into the yogurt.
- Place in 2 shallow soup dishes.
- Peel the kiwifruit and slice into 1/8" rounds.
- Take the stems off of the strawberries and cut them lengthwise into 4 pieces.
- Arrange the fruit in a beautiful pattern on top of the yogurt mixture and sprinkle with some grated orange rind and nuts if desired.
- Refrigerate for 1/2 hour so that the yogurt is well chilled. Enjoy immediately!
*Cream honey is whipped honey found in most health food stores.
**Use an organic orange and lemon, if possible, to avoid wax coating.
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Healthy Food Tip
Does hard-boiling, scrambling, poaching, or frying eggs reduce or destroy their lutein content?
Lutein is a carotenoid that is definitely susceptible to heat and oxygen like all carotenoids. However, I've been surprised at the research reports showing better stability for lutein than I would have expected. Some manufacturers have added lutein to processed foods with good results. Lutein added to ready-to-eat cereals, for example, has been exposed to 350F (177C) heat for 15 minutes and then 200F (93C) heat for 90 minutes and remained essentially stable. It's also been added to the fruit filling of cereal bars with good results under similar conditions. Lutein in aged cheeses has also been show to be fairly stable.
Although I haven't seen any information on the boiling of eggs, I would suspect the lutein to be better preserved than ordinarily suspected. By the way, lutein-enriched eggs are currently available in the marketplace and offer up to 2 milligrams of lutein per 60 grams (about 1 jumbo egg).
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