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tag: nutrition

Processing Wheat

TheFoodGeek, contributor | February 14th, 20117 comments

How does wheat go from being a plant to being an ingredient, and how do the changes affect it? Are all of the changes good?

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Copper: Nutrient or Poison?

TheFoodGeek, contributor | June 21st, 2010

We vaguely know that copper pots are lined with tin because copper can be bad for us, but some pots tend to be all copper. Is this bad for us, and why?

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Cast Iron Nutrition

TheFoodGeek, contributor | October 22nd, 2009

Iron is good for a diet, but will a cast-iron pan add iron to the diet?

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