Home » Wellness » Health Features » Food in the News

Kitchen Tips

Tips from the Kitchen Getting Garlic Smell off of Your Fingers

Three words: salt, lemon, steel. One way to remove the odor is to rub salt on your fingers. The salt will absorb the odor, and then you can rinse the salt away with hot soapy water. Or, rub lemon juice on your hands or rub your garlicky digits on anything made of stainless steel. Give your faucet a little good-luck rub and see if it does the trick. To be safe, do all three. These tricks work for onions, too.

To Keep Eggshell Fragments Out of Egg White

Crack the egg on a flat surface, such as the counter instead of on the rim of a bowl. It works. If you somehow still manage to get a shell fragment in with the egg, scoop the little piece out with one of the halves of the shell. The thin, curved shell is a natural shell-fragment retriever—much better than your finger or a spoon. You will never make a crunchy muffin or omelet again—unless, of course, you plan it that way.

From The Spectrum, by Dean Ornish, M.D.

cooking | Kitchen

1 Comment

January 1, 2009

One Comment ( Post a Comment )

Jesuit

Posted July 23, 2009 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

Perhaps, Dr. Ornish should raise his sights a bit.

Food in the News

A New Type of Fiber

Food scientists want to set the record straight about carbohydrates—the food group made up of starches, sugar, and fiber.

Diet Keeping Asthma Away

The Mediterranean diet, heavy in cereals, fruits, vegetables, and omega-3 fatty acids, has been shown to be protective against heart disease. Recent studies suggest it may also be linked to lower risk for asthma in children. In the latest study, Mexican researchers found children who adhered to a Mediterranean-style diet showed a 40 percent decrease [...]

Pop a Grape Instead of a Pill

Grapes may be an antidote to high blood pressure caused by too much dietary salt. University of Michigan scientists put rats on high-sodium diets and gave some of them blood pressure-lowering medication, and others powder made from whole grapes. Both groups developed high blood pressure, but the systolic pressure remained lower than in rats that [...]

Healthy Life: Just a Bowl of Cherries?

Tart cherries may be just what your doctor and your fitness trainer ordered. University of Michigan researchers recently found rats fed a diet high in freeze-dried whole cherries reduced their body fat by almost 10 percent, most of it off their bellies where the most dangerous fat for heart disease in humans is found. The [...]