Shopping Guide: all about Yogurt
White, sparkling, creamy, fresh and with that pleasant dash of acidity: talk about yogurt! Yogurt is a nutritious and valuable food in our diet, it belongs to that category of products that are recommended to be consumed every day and is obtained by fermenting milk with specific microorganisms that are allied to our health. There […]
Fermentations in the kitchen
Yogurt, Japanese miso, pickles, Korean kimchi, sauerkraut, chocolate, kefir, vinegar, tempeh, cider, beer, soy sauce, kombucha. But also bread, wine and cheese, the undisputed protagonists of our culinary tradition. What do foods so different in taste, smell, and origin have in common? Only one thing: fermentation. It means that during their preparation, certain microorganisms intervene […]
The pH: between physics… and cooking
When talking about food, many ways are used to describe it: texture, origin, smell, calories, nutritional composition, and even history. Instead, much rarer to do so is to use the physical properties of matter, the ones that take us back to the first or second high school, in the science lab, filling out half-baked reports […]
Nutrition in summer: what foods to prefer?
Summer is finally here and with it the opportunity to enjoy the sun, the sea and tasty lunches under an umbrella or during a rejuvenating walk in the mountains. But how best to cope with this season also from a nutritional point of view? What are the most suitable foods? And what are the best […]
Vitamin D: what it is used for and what foods to find it in
Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble substances that play a key role in the proper functioning of the body: for example, they regulate calcium and phosphate metabolism and homeostasis, supporting the physiological growth of bones and protecting them from aging but not only. Let’s find out together the properties of vitamin D and which […]