Category: Food Facts
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Vitamin C Benefits
Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid is a water soluble vitamin. This vitamin is naturally present in some foods and it is not produced inside the human body. So, it is an essential dietary component. Health Effects of Vitamin C Recommended Daily Dose Average daily recommended amount depends on age, which tabulated below. Life Stage Recommended…
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Trans Fatty Acids
Trans-fats or Trans fatty acid is a type of unsaturated fat, that occurs naturally and large proportion is industrially produced. Trans-fat is produced by reacting unsaturated fat with hydrogen gas in the presence of catalyst in a process called partial hydrogenation. Partial hydrogenation of oil gives it a semisolid to solid texture (depending upon the…
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Eggs: Are They Healthy or Not
Eggs are nutritional dense food that can supply every nutrition required by the body except fiber. White part of an egg is a complete protein that contain all nine essential amino acids required by human body. Egg white does not contain fat, all of the fat is available in yolk. Yolk is the nutritional dense…
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Dietary Fiber: Essential for Healthy Life
Dietary fiber is non-digestible carbohydrate that passes through the small intestine without digestion or absorption however, it passes through the large intestine with partial or complete fermentation. Fiber is commonly classified as soluble and insoluble, depending upon its solubility in water. The amount of soluble and insoluble fiber varies in different plant foods. Soluble…