Recipe Vegan Pie with Carrots Spices and Seeds

A vegan pie dough without butter, just as easy to make and better for your health. Try this original recipe full of flavors!

Comforting and gourmet, quickly prepared and ideal to share, the pie appeals to both adults and children. Easy to make, it comes to infinity according to your desires, it is practical to finish the remains of the fridge and to test new flavors.

The Benefits of Eating Popcorn it's Really Surprising

Normally, we associate any suite with delicious popcorn to a relaxing session at the cinema. Without justice, these popcorn seeds have always been categorized as poorly nutritional and caloric.

on the other hand, low in calories, rich in fibers and proteins, the popcorn is a snack one could not more polyvalent and economic. Better yet, popcorn is full of health benefits and virtues.

Popcorn is actually quite rich in minerals, vitamins B and E, manganese, magnesium, and fiber.

5 Tips to Well Frozen your Food

follow these 5 tips to properly freeze your food:

1- Respect the shelf life by indicating with a label the date of freezing of food

2- Empty the air from your freezer bags

3- Never freeze eggs, cheese, or mayonnaise

4- Never refreeze a thawed food

5- To freeze the fruits:

• first, wash them, dry them and divide them in a dish, so that they do not touch each other.

• Place them in the freezer. After an hour, when they are hard, put them in a bag, the contact does not matter anymore.

Top 10 Calorie Foods that we Thought were Healthy !

We imagine them calorie foods good for the health and for our line, and yet ... These are caloric foods that we thought above all suspicion. Surprising!

It would consume with closed eyes, all day! But if you pay attention to its line, these caloric foods are to consume with moderation.

The 10 caloric foods that deceive us all the way

Some foods are praised by women's magazines as the Diet Food (diet for slimming) of the summer, or put forward by industrials with a lot of advertising.

Tips for Healthy Eating: 6 Received ideas

In terms of healthy eating, grandma's good health advice is sometimes counterproductive. You are taught to unravel the info of the intox.

How to recognize the fake news of relevant information on healthy eating? Not always easy to unravel the truth of the false ... Let's take stock of truths a priori unstoppable.

6 truths of healthy eating shelled

Sometimes we think we can do well by adopting actions that are good for health:

7 Benefits of Black Soap for the Body and the House !

Black soap is the natural essential for the skin, the house and even the garden. Here are 7 tips to use black soap at home.

Black soap means a pasty and oily base, useful for both the skin and the home. At a detail menu: there are two kinds of black soap.

Not a Black Soap, but two forms of Black Soap

To enjoy all the benefits of black soap, you first have to distinguish two types. Black soap for the body also called cosmetic black soap is the soap in the form of grain-free, vegetable and oily paste, which will be mainly used for the body.

20 Best Ways to Use Mint

Mint Aromate to perfume all your dishes or your drinks, Mint remedy of grandmother, or as antiparasite in the Mint garden and for the animals, to use mint on a daily basis can render many services.

Mint is the refreshing plant par excellence. But not only: it is also one of the most common and easily used medicinal plants. Mint indeed has digestive, antiseptic, tonic and stimulating virtues among others.

It also has another peculiarity: it is particularly invasive.

Ceramics: the King Material of our Kitchens

Ceramic has long been present in our kitchens. More recently, this material has attacked our knives and stoves. Why is this coating so popular and what are its benefits?

Ceramics went from cooking to the table in a very short time. This material that is commonly found in sinks, on worktops and small tiles used to decorate the kitchen, now allows to make knives, stoves, casseroles ...

Physalis: Scientists want to make this Fruit the 'new Strawberries' !

With global warming, the physalis is likely to become much more famous than it is now. A study across the Atlantic has studied new strawberries and sequenced its DNA.

The physalis or "Love in a cage", is a little little known fruit that has many qualities. American scientists have studied it to modify it genetically.

These Substances that Hide us ... Coca-Cola

This is not the "secret formula" of Coca-Cola that we will discuss in this series "the substances we hide .... big brands" . No, beyond the commercial secret of the composition of Coca Cola, which acts as advertising much more than industrial secrecy, it is truly pest damage that we will be interested. But these ravages do not happen where we expected them ...

Coca - A secret formula that would have things to hide

For the 125th anniversary of the creation in December 2011, the Coca-Cola Company has discreetly (while making it known) moved the secret formula of its composition from an Atlanta bank to a building simply called World of Coca-Cola. Cola. The purpose of this move?

A pub shot of course because the composition of the drink invented by pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886, known to a small handful of insiders, will not be disclosed soon ... Object of fantasies, we must not expect much of this formula. On the one hand because its original composition, already disclosed, has probably been changed for a century, and secondly because the danger does not come from where one believes.

Cocaine in Coca-Cola? !

In 1979, a journalist, Charles Salter, made a noise because he was sure there was "coke in the Coke". Why ? Because the inventor of Coke was a cocaine addict.

His "scoop" was based on a document from 1910 that he believed reproduced the authentic recipe of Coca-Cola: nutmeg, lemon, alcohol, orange, coriander, cinnamon ... and coca leaves! Indeed, in its early days, Coca-Cola was indeed a drug and contained a little cocaine. Some say there would still be some because the Coca-Cola Company still imports coca leaves to rid them of cocaine before adding them to the drink. And in fact, none of the labs that analyzed the Coca Cola found any trace of drugs in the bubbles of Coca ... So it is not on this ground that we must look for the little beast.

Alcohol in Coca-Cola?

Here too, the charge does not make much sense: certainly the original composition, revealed by an American media (The American Life) describes well the presence of alcohol, but only in the composition of one of the aromas : aroma 7x. L'Express magazine did a theoretical analysis to calculate how much Coca-Cola contains alcohol because of this unique 7x aroma. Result, at a percentage of alcohol between 0.001 and 0.0009%. As this aroma represents less than 3% of Coca-Cola's 'syrup', the overall alcohol content is still diluted and therefore .... negligible.

Coca-Cola would be corrosive?

Coca-Cola would contain an acid: the coca syrup would be delivered in barrels marked "corrosive". But there is not much new: everyone knows the story of the spoon that is left in the Coke all night and that springs impeccable in the morning. The "cleansing" virtues of Coca are still well known and are very popular with tourist tourists.

Coca-Cola rightly points out that many other foods (tomato juice, wine, fruit juice, milk, soft drinks without alcohol) contain a small amount of acid, much lower than that which is naturally present in the stomach . These foods all have a corrosive action on contact with metal objects. There is not any danger for human health.

Sugar is the true dietary point of Coca

As our nutritionist confirms, the most troublesome ingredient in Coca-Cola is simply sugar. Drinking 1 liter of Coca Cola means swallowing 16 pieces of sugar! Far too much if you consider that an American, who would swallow 170 liters a year would consume the equivalent of 20 kilos of sugar!

Sugar is largely responsible for the soda addiction that children (and adults) develop. To avoid the cardiovascular risks, some fall back on the Coca Light but, problem, it contains sweeteners which are far from being without inconvenience! Worse, the light soda increases the health risks!

• Each new soda consumed per day increases a child's risk of obesity by 60% according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
• Each new soda consumed per day increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by 19% in men,
• Drinking one or two sugary drinks a day increases the risk of type 2 diabetes by 25%.
• Beverages containing aspartame are dangerous: there are 92 adverse health effects for aspartame alone.

As a result, like fast food, Nutella, Kinder, Coca-Cola is accused of favoring the dramatic increase of childhood obesity in many countries. According to a known endocrinologist at the University of California, the situation is critical: the obese children he cares for (1) lose 20 to 30 years of life expectancy compared to children of the previous generation. In other words, the sugar in these drinks is as much damage as if these children smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Scary.

Carcinogens in Coca

Since her pre-adolescence, journalist Olivia Mokiejewski has swallowed 20,000 cans of Coca-Cola, 7 tons of soda! She decided to find out what's really in the world's most famous drink. She wants to know what she is drinking and has conducted the investigation.

She asks the question at Coca-Cola headquarters. It is answered: "In Coke, there is carbonated water, sugar, natural flavors and plant extracts. - Oh? But what natural flavors and plant extracts? - That's part of the secret recipe "(2). Ah yes, the one that is in the famous safe.

Coca - The dyes (sometimes) prohibited

With the dye E150d, we have a good example of the behavior of some multinationals: they do not put themselves outlawed, but they do not go beyond it, they do not take the lead ... This dye E150d therefore, is the caramel color that gives its characteristic color to Coca. It would be carcinogenic. That's why the state of California has lowered its maximum rate to 29 mg per can (except to indicate on the package that the dye can cause cancer).

However, elsewhere in the United States and around the world, when regulations do not require it, Coca-Cola continues to sell its soda with a higher rate of this potentially dangerous component. In France, we drink Coke which contains 79 mg of E150d.

The US brand has recently been forced to remove another chemical dye, called "caramel dye", which is actually 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), under pressure from an American consumer association. Although not all scientists agree and the official health administration is hesitant, this association Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) supports, on the basis of a scientific study, a substance carcinogen is formed when ammonia and / or sulphites are used with 4-MEI to give Coca-Cola its brown color. Worse, in humans the substance causes leukaemias. Charming !

> The US CSPI stresses that this artificial color does not offer any nutritional benefit to sodas. Why keep it while there are alternatives to give the brown-black color, such as carrots and beets, for example.

 The association claims that the dye is renamed: by calling it "caramel coloring from ammonia and sulphite" or "chemically modified caramel coloring", consumers will no longer believe (wrongly) that Coke is made with caramel. Again, Coca-Cola Company, which does not want warning messages on the labels of its bottles and cans, is committed to changing its recipe in California, while denying that 4-MEI is dangerous to health. .

Coca - The hidden face of the world's most powerful brand

"Refresh the world" with bottles of Coca Cola

The brand that wants to "refresh the world" needs a lot of water, a lot of water: liters of water used by the Coca Cola company for the production of its drinks. Indeed, on the billions of liters, a little less than 40% are used for the production of drinks. The remaining 60% of water is used in the soda making process: for rinsing, heating or air conditioning. In other words, to make 1 liter of drink, the company uses an average of 2.5 liters of water

In France, Coca-Cola has optimized water consumption: to produce 1 liter of drink, we consume 1.46 liters of water, against 1.54 liters three years ago. The weight of packaging has also been reduced: 1 PET of 1.5 l weighs today 40 g, against 43 g a few years ago.

The Coca Cola Empire

Coca-Cola is the largest brand in the world and is also the world's best-selling soda. Every day, the multinational sells nearly 2 billion bottles worldwide.

The French soda market is still "underdeveloped" according to Coca-Cola: if France is index 100, Great Britain is 200 and Belgium 300.

Annual consumption per inhabitant / year - Source image: wikipedia

Planetoscope: Consumption of Coca Cola in the world

 The company Coca Cola entrusts its production to "anchos bottlers" who are bottlers who animate the various national or regional markets and to which it delivers its famous secret syrup.

Where does the water supply for the billions of liters of Coca Cola sold in North America come from?

Answer: it comes from groundwater in every region of the world. For North America, it comes from San Cristobal, in a water table of Chiapas in Mexico. Why there ? Probably because the former Mexican President from 2000 to 2006, Vicente Fox, was also ... the former president of Coca-Cola in Mexico. The problem is not there, well, but in the absurdity of a supply. Judge instead:

• Coca-Cola pays to collect 750,000 liters of water from the water table a day, resulting in water scarcity and sometimes cuts.
• Locals, often Indians, then drink something else: rainwater whenever possible and most often end up drinking (!) While drinking ... Coca Cola. Absurd.
• Bottom line: Mexicans as a whole have become the largest consumers of Coca-Cola in the world (225 liters per year per person) and it is expected that soon 100% of Mexicans will become obese!

Conclusion : The Coca-Cola Company, with a turnover of $ 47 billion, is obviously aware of all these facts, all these accusations.

Like many large groups, it seeks to change by starting many CSR projects or Sustainable Development. It makes efforts on packaging, water consumption, transport, etc.

Still, drinking soda in such large quantities poses real problems of dietetics and public health (not to mention environment). Coca marketing is indeed so powerful that some people come to drink nothing else, during and out of meals!

How to remind them of the pleasure of a good fresh water?

Coke, the formula is not so secret for a long time

It's been a long time since the recipe for Coke was published in the press: already in 1979 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a photo showing a recipe written on the supposed notebook of John Pemberton, the inventor pharmacist. On the internet, the list of ingredients was also published by Joe Jacobs, who owned the pharmacy where the first Coca-Cola was sold. No surprise, except for the presence of plum juice and clover.

The (supposed) Coca-Cola recipe

Here is the translation of the alleged Coca-Cola recipe. The quantities indicated are therefore not absolutely accurate but can be found in the original recipe in English). Coca-Cola contains:

• Water: 10 l + carbon dioxide - for a sparkling and refreshing aroma
• Phosphoric acid: obtained from natural minerals and raw phosphorus, giving Coca-Cola a sparkling and full-bodied note
• Citric acid: 85 ml
• Caffeine: 28 ml, to invigorate the drink (also contained in tea, coffee and even in chocolate). Its bitter aroma, in the secret formula, gives Coca-Cola a refreshing, discreetly stimulating effect.
• Sugar: 30 (unit of measurement illegible on the document); a natural staple, produced from sugar cane or sugar beets
• Lemon juice: 946 ml
• Vanilla: 28 ml
• Caramel: 42.5 ml or more: gives Coca-Cola its brown color. Liquid caramel is obtained by heating sugar with a dry heat source. The sugar then takes on its dark color and its liquid consistency (sugar liquor) to obtain a pungent roasting aroma,
• "Aroma 7X", based on essential oils (use 56.6 ml of this flavor for 18.9 l of syrup),
• Alcohol: 227 ml
• Essential oil of orange: 20 drops
• Essential oil of lemon: 30 drops
• Essential oil of nutmeg: 10 drops
• (Essential oil?) Coriander: 5 drops
• (Essential oil?) Neroli: 10 drops
• (Essential oil?) Cinnamon: 10 drops

Goji Super Fruit Health Benefits

Originally from China, Goji or Goji Berry is a superfruit good for health. Studies demonstrate the virtues of wolfberry on the body.

The goji berry is a fruit native to China whose virtues have been recognized for a long time in Chinese medicine.

DHA or the virtues of omega-3 daily

Among the "super foods", after spirulina, chlorella, and super fruit, here is DHA. DHA, a nutritional miracle, is still little known, omega-3 but is becoming more and more followers. Judge instead.

DHA, or docosahéxaéonique acid - not to be confused with DHEA - is one of the three omega-3s necessary for the proper functioning of the body.

Omega-3s are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), the precursor of which is alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).

Onion, an almost magical food ?

The onion we like it or not but in all the onion, it is better to eat it. So if you like to garden bio, quickly plant onions. Here's why they like these onions.

The Unsuspected Benefits of Ginger

Ginger is best known for its aphrodisiac effects and its sexual stimulant capacity. But this virtue is not the only one, by far! Zoom on this unusual root.

Ginger has indeed more than one string to his bow.

What are the Health Benefits of Apricot?

Apricot one of the star fruits of summer. And it would be wrong to deprive yourself because it has many health benefits of apricot and can be enjoyed in both sweet and savory versions.

Apricot, a good-looking ally

It is rich in vitamin A, especially in its skin, two apricots provide about 34% of daily needs (according to Ciqual table of nutritional composition of food). "Vitamin A promotes the hydration of the epidermis," says Audrey Aveaux, dietician-nutritionist. In summer, it also protects the skin from the sun and activates melanin for a nice tan. And all this, in a natural way.

A remineralising fruit

Apricot is one of the richest fruits in minerals and trace elements. It provides eleven (potassium, phosphorus, copper, iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iodine, sodium, zinc and selenium). Remineralizing your body to work well is important, especially in the summer because you sweat more, eliminating minerals.

Potassium is the most represented mineral: from 11 to 13% of the daily needs for two apricots (according to the Coequal table). "It is essential for the regulation of blood pressure," says the dietitian.

Just after copper comes: between 7 and 9% (according to the table Coequal) daily intake for two fruits. Copper is important for stimulating natural defenses. Other minerals and trace elements provide less than 2.5% of daily needs.

Apricot regulates transit

Apricot provides between 1.3 g and 2.5 g1 of fiber per 100 g, two apricots. "Its fibers, including pectin, regulate intestinal transit, which avoids constipation problems, says Audrey Aveaux. Its acidulous flavor also stimulates digestive secretions. "

An anti-aging food

The apricot contains phenols (caffeic and ferulic acids ...) and flavonoids (catechol, epicatechol, quercetol ...) which give it antioxidant properties, thus protecting the cells of the body from premature aging. "He has a good Orac score, which measures the antioxidant activity of a food," adds the dietician. That of apricot is 1,100 mg per 100 g (source: USDA Database). Some of these substances also have an anti-inflammatory action.

And the apricot dry? It is 5 times more energy than fresh apricot: it brings 271 kcal to 100 g (10 to 12 fruits), against 50 kcal / 100 g (2 to 3 fruits depending on size) for fresh apricot. It is the richest dry fruit in potassium with a content of 1.09 g per 100 g. It is ideal for athletes to fight against cramps thanks to its potassium content, this mineral is essential for neuromuscular function.

Precautions health before eating an apricot 

• In case of allergy to birch pollen, apricot can cause itching, burns in the mouth, lips, throat.
• In case of intolerance to sulphites: food additives (from E 220 to E 228) are used to prevent dried apricots from turning brown. They cause headaches, a feeling of tightness of breathing or noisy breathing, run nose and cry eyes.

How to choose and preserve apricots

Be careful, the apricot does not ripen once plucked! Ripe, it gives off a delicious scent.

• The Bergeron is melting and balanced between its sweet and tangy flavor.
• The Orangé de Provence is very fragrant and very sweet.
• The Orangered is juicy and very fragrant.
• Bergarouge is a big apricot, very juicy and very sweet.

The apricots can be kept for three days in a fruit bowl, away from the sun, and up to five days in the crisper of the fridge.

How to cook apricot? In salty version, it accompanies spinach, foie gras salad. It serves as a garnish for roast veal or pork. On the sweet side, he appreciates citrus fruits in foil, hazelnuts, walnuts and almonds in a compote, or pan-fried, or stuffed and baked.

Vegetable Juice a Detox Trend to Adopt?

Repetitive food crises, Vegetable Juice a Detox Trend to Adopt pesticides incriminated as a cause of serious diseases, detoxification, that is to say the fact of ridding his body of all its toxins, is a strong trend in the current context.

Detox, a fashion effect?

As a result, detox diets are everywhere, in magazines and on social networks. The latest trend: juicing, fresh juice and fruit juice cure.

The concept of detox is however not recent. It appears with the theory of hygienism in the late nineteenth century. The accumulation of toxins in the body would be the cause of a large number of diseases. Detoxifying the body would help restore fitness, health and well-being.

How is a fresh juice and fruit juice treatment?

The principle of this liquid detox cure: to feed exclusively for several days of freshly squeezed juice, to purify itself, to put one's body at rest and to lose weight.

In practice, you have to buy a juice extractor (not a centrifuge) to extract the juice. Ten kilos of fresh fruits and vegetables, preferably organic, are needed for a single day of cure.

The cures of fresh fruit and vegetable juice also take the principle of raw food or "raw cuisine". According to the fundamentals of raw food, consuming organic plants, raw or under cooked, would be extremely beneficial for health.

Several companies offer this type of detox delight (Detox delight, Juice Lab). These preservative-free preparations are made the same day with a cold juice extractor and are delivered at home or at the workplace. The plants used are raw and the extraction method preserves the enzyme and nutrient content.

Juicing, benefits or health risks?

Naturopaths favor detox treatments and often recommend them at each change of season, in order to eliminate accumulated toxins and to feel better. The ideal duration for this type of cure is five days.

The medical profession has a very different opinion on the issue because the body detoxifies very well alone thanks, among others, to the liver and kidneys. Undertaking a detox cure therefore seems useless. Above all, this type of liquid diet can have adverse effects: it can lead to fatigue and side effects such as deficiencies (calcium, iron ...).

Finally, in the absence of fiber and chewing, it has no satiety effect, and therefore exposes the risk of food cravings or cravings.

Contraindications to a fresh juice cure

The detox cure is not advisable to diabetics, immunocompromised patients, cardiac patients, people with a low BMI, but also to all those in bad general health condition. People taking medication should seek the advice of their practitioner before undertaking this type of treatment. Some foods, including grapefruit that is consumed as juice, interfere with the absorption of certain medications.

The great success of this type of treatment leads to abuse and can lead to dangerous behavior, such as following for several weeks a course of detox juice.

Finally, if weight gain can be rapid, there is also a good chance that it will not be sustained over the long term.

Remember that no scientific expertise has demonstrated the benefits of detox cures based on fruit juice and fresh vegetables. Doing yourself good by consuming healthy products, while keeping a critical sense, is perhaps one of the keys to access some form of well-being.