Recipe Nutrient Analysis: Best practices for calculated and chemical analysis is your step-by-step guide for determining the nutrients in recipes. Industry veterans Catharine Powers and Cheryl Dolven have worked with a team of registered dietitians and food professionals with years of experience analyzing recipes, to bring you practical advice and a collection of resources you won't find anywhere else. This resource is a must have for anyone who calculates the nutrients in recipes - especially cookbooks authors, newspaper and magazine food editors and professionals analyzing recipes for restaurants or other food service venues.
From "As Purchased to "Edible Portion" How to Analyze a Recipe Using a Nutrient Database. Purchasing nutrient analysis software and learning how to use the program is only useful if you have the knowledge to convert "as purchased" ingredients to the "edible portion." This book describes how to read a recipe and enter the correct ingredients and amounts, in order to provide an accurate nutrient analysis. The book is an essential tool for anyone working in nutrient analysis. Recipes are usually written based on what the consumer needs to purchase. The individual analyzing the recipe must evaluate the recipe based on the actual food-ready-to-eat (unless the food is meant to be eaten whole.) A nutritional analysis program cannot cook or prepare meals. A person must have skills in Food Science, Culinary Arts, Nutrition, Cooking and Preparation Techniques, Purchasing Guides, Yield Factors, and Nutrient Analysis Software.
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, tires, and toys. Nestle follows the trail of tainted pet food ingredients back to their source in China and along the supply chain to their introduction into feed for pigs, chickens, and fish in the United States, Canada, and other countries throughout the world. What begins as a problem "merely" for cats and dogs soon becomes an issue of tremendous concern to everyone. Nestle uncovers unexpected connections among the food supplies for pets, farm animals, and people and identifies glaring gaps in the global oversight of food safety.
#1 New York Times Bestseller In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans—cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders—also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because our pets can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health. The Forever Dog gives us the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged companions. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, globetrotted (pre-pandemic) to galvanize the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers; they also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice, and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them. The Forever Dog prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction, and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food—including what the commercial manufacturers don’t want us to know—and offer recipes, easy solutions, and tips for making sure our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. Habib and Dr. Becker also explore how external factors we often don’t think about can greatly affect a dog’s overall health and wellbeing, from everyday insults to the body and its physiology, to the role our own lifestyles and our vets’ choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel “up the leash.” Medical breakthroughs have expanded our choices for canine health—if you know what they are. This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices, and to keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.
During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products. These symbols and the systems that underlie them have become known as front-of-package (FOP) nutrition rating systems and symbols, even though the symbols themselves can be found anywhere on the front of a food package or on a retail shelf tag. Though not regulated and inconsistent in format, content, and criteria, FOP systems and symbols have the potential to provide useful guidance to consumers as well as maximize effectiveness. As a result, Congress directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to undertake a study with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine and provide recommendations regarding FOP nutrition rating systems and symbols. The study was completed in two phases. Phase I focused primarily on the nutrition criteria underlying FOP systems. Phase II builds on the results of Phase I while focusing on aspects related to consumer understanding and behavior related to the development of a standardized FOP system. Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols focuses on Phase II of the study. The report addresses the potential benefits of a single, standardized front-label food guidance system regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, assesses which icons are most effective with consumer audiences, and considers the systems/icons that best promote health and how to maximize their use.
Cooking at home is one of the best ways to eat healthier and manage your diabetes or prediabetes, but it can be difficult to know where to start. The Clean & Simple Diabetes Cookbook will walk you through the basics of simple, home-cooking, using fresh, whole ingredients to kickstart your healthy, clean-eating lifestyle. More than just a collection of recipes, this cookbook also provides: Tips on cooking and eating to prevent or manage diabetes or prediabetes Essential cooking how-to's to build your confidence in the kitchen Grocery shopping guide for clean eating Step-by-step guides for meal planning and prep Menu ideas and meal plans for fuss-free healthy eating The Clean & Simple Diabetes Cookbook contains over 100 simple, clean-eating recipes, each complete with nutrition information that makes meal planning for diabetes easy. These recipes are designed for simplicity: they contain minimal ingredients, use common cooking equipment, require 15 minutes or less of prep time, and provide detailed, easy-to-understand instructions. Plus, the recipes feature fresh, flavorful ingredients--absolutely nothing is artificial--to help give you the energy you need to rock your day! Some of the recipes you'll find in this book include: Mason Jar Sesame Chicken Salad, Sheet Pan Chili Lime Shrimp and Peppers, Super Green Guacamole, Tuna and Avocado Power Bowl, Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies, and much, much more! Looking for something even simpler? You'll also find ideas for easiest ever recipes made with just three ingredients for when you need a fast fix. Eating healthier to prevent or manage diabetes or prediabetes doesn't have to be complicated! The Clean & Simple Diabetes Cookbook gives you all the tools you need to eat clean, gain confidence in the kitchen, and plan healthy meals like a pro.
