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Vegan Olive Tapenade Part of being a sustainable brand requires me to keep looking for better and healthier alternatives to packaged food.

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Honey: Nature’s Altenative to Sugar Of the hundreds of sugar substitutes available in the market today, honey is known to be one of the healthiest and most nutritious alternatives.

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Superfoods: Ginger & Garlic

Superfoods: Ginger & Garlic

Anybody familiar with Indian cuisine can tell you about the abundant use of ginger and garlic. Minced, fried, caramelised, in paste form or raw, these two wonderful herbs have a multitude of uses in traditional cooking. Touted as medicinal foods by many, ginger and garlic have the unique natural ability to cure several ailments and illnesses. Superfood or not, introducing either or both into your…

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What is Raw Milk?

What is Raw Milk?

Unless you have been living under a rock, it is very likely that you have herd, read, and discussed the benefits of drinking raw milk. Currently a huge food trend in America, raw milk has been and continues to be widely consumed in most parts of India. While raw milk is said to have many health advantages, several individuals have suffered dangerous consequences from consuming contaminated raw…

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The Blood Type Diet

The Blood Type Diet

The Blood Group Diet or the Blood Type Diet was first popularized by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type, published in 1996. With over seven million copies sold, this New York Times Bestseller has been backed and propagated by many prominent individuals like Cheryl Crow and Cliff Richards. The Blood Group Diet works on the premise that certain blood types react differently to…

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Rotten Netflix’s latest take on the food industry, “Rotten” leaves you feeling uncomfortable, slightly bored and at times very perplexed.

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Nuts about Peanuts

Peanuts, also known as ‘goober pea’, ‘earth nuts’, ‘ground nuts’ and ‘mungfali’, is being peddled as one of the healthiest nuts in the market today. Earlier shunned away due to its high fat and sodium content, more and more studies are now being published highlighting the health benefits associated with regular consumption of them. Its unique chemical composition allows it to be processed into a…

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Pasteurisation v/s Nature Raw milk essentially is milk that has come straight from the udders of the cow. It doesn't go through any form of processing, nor any chemical alternations.

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Potato Head

Most of us know potatoes to be this starchy vegetable full of carbohydrates and unwanted calories. We tend to associate it with junk food like French fries and chips (crisps) thereby steering in into the must-avoid-food-category. However, the humble potato has much more to offer than meets the eye. First domesticated in the Andes over 10,000 years ago, potatoes have grown to become the 4th…

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Super Foods: Berries Berries, one of the many super foods being propagated today, is nature's cure to some of the most pressing health problems of our time.

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Baking Essentials: Must Reads for 2017 At Bonne Bakery we spend majority of our time in product development trying to find new ways to better the recipes we have with us.

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Carbohydrates: Quantity v/s Quality Carbohydrates make up one of the three macronutrients known to mankind. They are usually categorised based on their chemical structure: simple and complex.

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Artificial Sweeteners: How Natural is Natural? A common theory about is taste is that there is a strong correlation between an individual's consumption of a particular flavour and his / her preferred intensity.

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Hydrogenation in Food

Hydrogenation is a chemical process widely used in the food industry. While most of us might be aware of the harmful effects of consuming partially or fully hydrogenated fats, it helps to understand how and why it came about to be used so extensively in modern day food production. What is Hydrogenation? Hydrogenation is the process of treating polyunsaturated vegetable oils with hydrogen, in the…

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Understanding Food: Must Reads for 2017

As somebody who works in food for living, my interest in the subject is insatiable. Over the last few years I’ve actively looked for books and essays that could help me better understand food and the evolving role it plays in nutrition, commerce, policy making and environmental change. Listed below are the top five books I have come to love for many reasons and that have greatly shaped my views…

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Macronutrient: Fat

Fat makes up one of the three main macronutrients known to mankind. Also known as triglycerides, fat gets this name from its chemical structure: three fatty acid chains and one alcohol glycerol. Fat is an important and necessary part of our diet and helps in several structural and metabolic functions. We require it for energy and to process certain vitamins and minerals. Although no produce can…

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Wheat, Flour & Gluten Wheat forms a part of the staple diet for most cultures across the globe. A type of grass, wheat is processed and consumed in various forms making it the most widely cultivated cereal grain in the world.