Food (other)

Food (other)

General food products.

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spirulina

Fitness; Diet

This nutrient rich blue-green algae is often hailed as a wonder food for many aspects of health and diet.

unsaturated fat

Fitness; Diet

An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid chain is monounsaturated if it contains one double ...

vegan diet

Fitness; Diet

This is a an extreme form of vegetarian diet, where not only red meat, poultry and fish is avoided, but also anything of animal origin like eggs, dairy, and even honey. (See Amino ...

fortified

Fitness; Diet

Fortified foods or drinks are those that have had extra vitamins and minerals added to them.

glucose

Fitness; Diet

A very important sugar that most carbohydrates are made up of. Glucose provides energy for our body cells after it has been carried to them in the bloodstream; it can either be ...

gram

Fitness; Diet

A metric unit for weight and mass present on food labels. One gram (1g) is one thousandth of one kilogram (1kg).

hydrogenated

Fitness; Diet

This is a fat that has been chemically altered from a liquid (oil) to a solid fat. Margarines, for example, are hydrogenated fats, and contain trans fatty acids. Over consumption ...