Posted by kathryn in Fibre

As I blogged about yesterday, no matter what you eat the majority of your food is made up of protein, fats, carbohydrates, water and fibre. These are the bulk of our diets. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve listed fifteen foods and asked which of them contain these five components. To finish off this series, I thought I’d list them again and give all the results together. h3. Bread * White bread is 9% protein, 2.5 % fat, 47 …

Read more 30 April, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fibre

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve posted a series of questions on Limes & Lycopene. Given a list of foods – do you know which contain fat, fibre, protein, carbohydrates and water? How did you go in the quiz? I posted the questions, because I find it’s common for foods to be discussed in terms of single nutrients. Rice is referred to as a carbohydrate, meat is a protein, butter is a fat. Each food is put in its …

Read more 29 April, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fibre

Thanks to all of you who did the quick carb quiz. I’ve posted the answers. Next question – same foods – but this time, which contain fibre? # bread # milk # pumpkin # lamb # tofu # broccoli # apples # olive oil # butter # salmon # bananas # rice # hazelnuts # chickpeas # sultanas Leave your thoughts in the comments below and I’ll post the answers tomorrow.

Read more 17 April, 2008