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

Is chawal good for weight loss? Yes, as a measured katori: about 143 kcal when cooked from 40 g of raw rice. Rice calories per 100 g and per bowl, how much to eat, which rice to pick, khichdi and what to avoid.

Sattu, the roasted Bengal gram flour: what it is, its names in English and Indian languages, the one nutrition figure printed for it, the benefits and side effects, and how to buy, store and use it.

Cow ghee vs buffalo ghee compared: why one is yellow and the other white, texture, taste, fat and calories, what a 2022 lab study measured, relative cost and which ghee suits which use.

Cumin in Hindi is jira (jeera); cumin in English is cumin seeds. Tamil jeerakam, Telugu jeelakarra, Gujarati jeeru, Bengali jire — every Indian language name in one table, with the botanical name Cuminum cyminum.

Jeera for diabetes patients: eight trials of cumin supplements found no significant change in fasting blood sugar, insulin or insulin resistance. What a teaspoon of cumin adds, jeera water and jeera tea rules, better and worse uses, and what to avoid.

What is chawal: the Hindi name for rice, explained with its names in Indian languages, nutrition per 100 g, benefits, side effects, cooking, storage and how to buy. Raw milled rice gives 357 kcal per 100 g.

Cold pressed oil vs refined oil: how each is made, what refining removes and adds, why the calories are the same, and which oil to use for which job, with ICMR-NIN and WHO as sources.

Jeera water benefits, separated from what no trial shows: the teaspoon of seeds in a cup holds about 8 kcal, 0.5 mg iron and 22 mg calcium. Cumin's nutrients per 100 g and per teaspoon, the eight glycemic trials, side effects and kitchen amounts.

Red rice (lal chawal): the unpolished whole grain with the red bran on — what makes it red, its names in Indian languages, nutrition per 100 g, a GI that averages 62, benefits and side effects, soaking, cooking and buying.

Is peanut oil good for health? Eight benefits of cold-pressed groundnut oil, from its MUFA and tocopherols to its flavour, plus side effects, calories per spoon and a daily limit.

Chana dal protein per 100 g is 21.55 g, with 329 kcal, 15.15 g fibre and a GI of 11 (IFCT 2017, University of Sydney). The full bengal gram nutrition table against kala chana and besan, per-katori figures, iron, folate and the other minerals.

Rajma beans are red kidney beans: 19.9 g protein, 16.6 g fibre and 300 kcal per 100 g, a tested GI of 45, its names in Indian languages, benefits and side effects, cooking, storage and recipes, each topic linked to its own page.