Food is important for our health, because it converts the calories into energy in our body, and helps us to have energy to live. However, we should also enjoy the food.
In this post, I will introduce several recipes that I found beautiful and tasty.
This picture is taken by Julia, a food blogger, who made this “Vanilla Sugar Cookies”. What attracts me is the appearance. It is very colorful and sweet. You can find the recipe by clicking “Credit” under the photo. In her blog, she is not only showing the recipe, but she also gives the readers many tips for making the cookies better. In addition, the blog provided the nutrition label, which readers can have an idea of how much calories it is.
This is also from another blogger, Averie. Cheerios snack bars are not really unique or rare. In fact, it is often see around us. However, the question is does everyone really know how to make Cheerios snack bars? I feel some of the people do not know how to make it. So I picked up this recipe in this post. It is easy to make and the appearance is cute and tasty.
*You can jump to the link of the recipe by clicking “Credit” under the photo.
Do you know that “flavor” and “taste” are different?
Flavor – A sensory impression of the products that is the sum of taste and aroma. It is not only determined by the smell, texture, and food, but it is also determined by the chefs’ memories and personal experiences. It contains outside influences, and it is more than just a description of food.
Taste – Any experiences that happened inside the mouth. Taste has five different types of tongue feels, they are sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. Each represents different kind of tongue feels, which acts like stimulations to the tongue. Taste is just one of the senses of body.
When flavor and taste come to the topic, it is easily to think about chemistry. Food chemistry is always related to the smells, tastes, and flavor. For examples,
Taste
Chemical compounds
Umami
Phosphoric acid di(2-ehylhexyl)ester
Salt
Tetradodecy lammonium bromide
Sour
Oleic acid
Bitter
Tetradodecylammonium bromide
Sweetness
Gallic acid
Even though in this post, it only shows the chemical compounds of each taste, however, the flavor is build up on this stage. So it has more complex and mixed chemical compounds inside.
One take over in this post is “flavor” is the sensory experiences on the person who is eating, while “taste” is the mouth experiences on the foods.
Vitamin B1; it helps your nervous system, brain, muscles, heart, stomach, and intestines.
Vitamin B2; it helps to break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates that you consumed in each meal.
Vitamin B3; it helps you to convert proteins, fats, and carbohydrates into energy by an enzyme.
Vitamin B5; it also help you to convert the food that you consumed into energy.
Vitamin B6; it helps your metabolism, and create red blood cells and neurotransmitters.
Vitamin B7; it helps your metabolism as well by functioning as a coenzyme.
Vitamin B9; it helps to control the blood level of amino acid homocysteine.
Vitamin B12; it helps to support the normal nervous cells function, red blood cells formation, and DNA synthesis.
Each of the types has different role, and they are all contributing to your health and your body largely.
If you are lacked of any of the Vitamin B, you may get diseases, such as pellagra and beriberi.
Pellagra disease is caused by lack of Vitamin B3, which gives you symptoms of dementia, diarrhea, and dermatitis. The skin gets dermatitis around the neck is what people commonly see as a symptom of pellagra.
Beriberi disease is caused by lack of Vitamin B1, which gives you symptoms of decreased in muscle function, paralysis, and rapid heart beats. When people get beriberi disease, their body will get extremely skinny in a short time period.
So what do you need to do in order to keep you healthy?
You can get vitamin B easily by food, which are salmon, leafy greens, liver, egg, milk, beef, oysters, legumes, yogurt, chicken, pork and more.
