Hands up if you’ve heard of Yacon before? The likelihood is no but you shouldn’t be missing out on this nutritious wholefood. Yacon is a vegetable that looks very similar to a sweet orange kumara with flesh that tastes like an apple. Sounds too good
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Remembering the term polyphenols might sound like a chore, but finding them in a healthy diet, certainly isn’t. You’ll want to know where to get them from, as they have been shown to be beneficial for health and wellbeing. Poly-what? The health benefits that you will get
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A sustainable wholesome foodstuff; health effects and potential dietotherapy applications of yacon Mary R. Yan1,2,*, Robert Welch3, Elaine C. Rush1, Xuesong Xiang4, Xin Wang5 1 AUT Food Network, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; maryan@aut.ac.nz, erush@aut.ac.nz 2 Community and Social Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New
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A sustainable food supply is an ever-growing public and planetary health concern influenced by food culture, food practices, and dietary patterns. Globally, the consumption of plant foods that offer physiological and biochemical benefits is increasing. In recent years, products made from yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) tubers
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Do you struggle to control your blood sugar levels? You follow the instructions, but you’re not seeing the improvements you want? You know diet is a key factor, but there’s so many foods out there, where should you start? If this sounds familiar, rest assured, you are not
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Do you sometimes get abdominal cramps even when it’s not time for your period? Do you sometimes get loose stools and wonder whether it’s food poisoning? Are you so bloated that you find it hard to button up your shirt? What can you do about this? The
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A study to measure the Glycemic Index values of NZFOS+ Yacon Concentrate syrup product Using glucose as the reference food (GI = 100), foods with a GI value less than 55 are currently considered to be low-GI foods. Foods with a GI value between 56-69 are
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Consider this one body system when you want to influence your metabolism Metabolism. Where is your mind going to when you read that word? To your body shape? To the amount of energy you expend each day? Or are you instead thinking about the way your body uses
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Healthy Weight management: more that what you eat and how much you move The digestive system is a complex one. At every part of the 9 metre long tract, one process kicks into another to ensure the food we eat is broken up, the nutrients made
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The microbiota living in gut influence the immune response, metabolism, mood and behavior. The diet plays a pivotal role in maintaining healthy gut microbiota composition and its fermentation leads to production of Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) mainly acetate, propionate and butyrate. During pancreatic dysfunction,
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