COWBERRY's Blog: Organic Food, Recipes & Healthy Living

Turmeric for weight loss: one level teaspoon (3 g) adds about 8 kcal and 1.5 g of carbohydrate, neither curcumin review in the references names weight loss among its findings, and the drinks around haldi are where the calories live. The evidence and how to use it.

Asafoetida benefits and side effects, with every setting named: the traditional uses for asthma, gastrointestinal disorders and intestinal parasites, the preclinical laboratory findings, and the honest limits of both.

Honey glycemic index: GI 63, the mean of seven plain-honey tests recorded from 49 to 87, against 70 for white sugar and 71 for brown sugar. Why the range, how the bands work and what one spoon means.

Ten honest jaggery benefits, each with its IFCT 2017 number or source and the serving-size caveat, followed by the side effects, who should limit gur, how much fits in a day under the WHO sugars limit, and how to eat it.

Green tea vs black coffee: tea holds 30 to 65 mg of caffeine a 150 ml cup, brewed coffee 80 to 120 mg. Nutrition, taste, cost and which drink fits which day.

Best honey for weight loss? The honest answer is the one you use least: honey is a free sugar at 21 kcal a teaspoon, and trials say weight moves with total sugars, not the sweetener. Calories per spoon, the WHO body-weight trials, what to avoid.

Is ragi gluten free? Yes: finger millet is a millet, not a type of wheat, so plain ragi grain and flour contain no gluten. The botany, cross-contamination in mills, who it matters for (coeliac disease, wheat allergy), which COWBERRY millets qualify and how to cook without gluten.

Is haldi good for diabetes? One level teaspoon (3 g) of turmeric powder holds about 1.5 g of carbohydrate and 8 kcal, no glycemic index is printed for the spice, and curcumin capsules need a doctor's clearance first. The numbers, the studies and how to use it.

Is honey good for diabetes? No, not as a special sweetener: honey is 82.4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g with a GI of 63, and in a crossover trial it behaved like plain sucrose. What the research shows, carbs per spoon, how much could fit and what to avoid.

Turmeric benefits and side effects, read plainly: what the curcumin reviews report, the nutrients a spoon actually carries, NCCIH's supplement cautions, the lead-chromate risk and how much a day has any backing.

Green tea recipes for Indian kitchens: green tea roti and chapati, porridge and oatmeal, and iced green tea, with the small measured amounts of leaf that keep the bitterness out.

How to store atta, whole grains, millet flours, dals and poha through the Indian monsoon: airtight, dry, cool, small batches, the freezer for millet flours, what neem and bay leaves can and cannot do, and how long each keeps.