What are flavonoids? In the first week we already mentioned the fact that some antioxidative or anti-inflammatory property of foods is used as a reason to elevate them to “super” …
Did quinoa affect the economy and diets in the Andean highlands? Sometimes superfoods demand drives up their prices considerably, changing their status from traditional food into cash crops. This was …
Why is buckwheat a super grain? Not all gluten-free alternatives are equally known to the consumer, but buckwheat is a grain with a very long history of human use and …
What are the consequences of gluten-free diets? Myths about gluten lead towards gluten-free choices by many people that have no medical reasons for them. Usually, this is not a good …
Gluten-free products are common, but what is gluten? In the first of a series of two videos, dr. Krupa-Kozak introduces gluten and its characteristics. Where is it found? What role …
How to use the USDA Food Composition Database In the previous step, we described the opportunity of using web databases to look for the nutrient content of specific foods, and …
How can we find new alternatives to superfoods? In the last video we mentioned a few alternatives to superfoods, but these are by no means the only possible substitutions. To …
What are some alternatives to common superfoods? The first activity of this week is focused on finding foods that are similar to superfoods, but are more available, cheaper or more …
What is the nutrient content of superfoods? What are their alternatives? As we anticipated in the first week, despite the lack of an official definition, one of the characteristics of …
How can we find new superfoods? This week we introduced many concepts linked to superfoods, and we started to explore the scientific research linked to some of them – notably, …
In this activity, we offered a quick overview of what micro and macronutrients are, as food items sold with the “superfood” label often contain high amounts of some essential nutrient. …
Superfoods are often defined on the basis of their content of nutritional content. This includes micronutrients, their macronutrient profile or their content of phytochemicals. In this video, we discuss these …
Our gut microbiome is linked with our health. It is therefore of no surprise that foods that can influence our gut bacteria, by increasing the number of beneficial ones, received …
The team This course was created by scientists coming from three institutions: the University of Torino, the Polish Academy of Sciences – IARFR and the University of Reading. We specialize …