Digestive Health

Go Bananas This yellow fruit is promoted as a superfood. Bananas are packed with fibre which makes you feel full and vitamins that support your body. Americans go bananas as they each eat more than 12kg, about 90 bananas, a year, more than the consumption of oranges and apples combined. Good as Gold? One large […]

Cucumbers are cool to eat. They are high in water content which is great for hydrating, especially in summer, and amazing in salads, as snack sticks on their own or with dips and in smoothies. In a smoothie recipe, they are quick, flavoursome, refreshing and easy to throw in. They can be easily blended with

Buckwheat is a pseudo cereal, a type of grain that doesn’t grow on grasses but is used similarly to other cereals. It is referred to as a gluten-free grain but is actually a seed which is harvested from a flowering plant related to rhubarb and is known to provide significant health benefits. This seed is

Breakfast actually means “to break the fast.” It is the first meal of the day after a time of not eating overnight. James Caleb Jackson (1811-1895), a farmer and preacher, was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain breakfast cereal he called ‘granula’. Jackson promoted a near vegetarian diet with the emphasis on fruits,

Resistant starch was not discovered until 1982. Before that, we thought all starch could be digested by the digestive enzymes in our small intestine. Subsequent studies confirmed that there are indeed starches that resist digestion and end up in our large intestine where they can feed our good bacteria, just like fibre does. Resistant starch

Many people wonder how often they should be emptying their bowels. Ideally, food should take more that 15 hours to pass through your digestive system. If you eat 3 meals a day, doing a “number two” 3 times is normal. If you eat 3 meals a day plus some snacks, you might even go between