How to Add Flavor to Your Desserts Using Herbs?

 

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Herbs that Play Well with Desserts

When using herbs, don’t limit yourself to savory dishes. Their delicate aromas and distinctive flavors add other dimensions to many dessert and baked dishes as well.

Additionally, since herbs are nutrient dense plants, they offer a boost to the immune system. A literal “sweet bonus” when used in desserts and sweet treats.

Herbs are perfect for balancing dessert ingredients in any dish. With an endless variety of flowery to spicy notes, they add brightness and earthy flavors to any season and elevate all desserts to a more sophisticated level.

It’s time to “think outside the box.”

Here’s a list of favorite herbs that are commonly used to enhance sweet dishes. Use the information to explore and discover new ideas for yourself.

Mint: Nothing is more refreshing than mint, a worldwide culinary favorite there are a quite a few good ones to choose from. Some of the more widely used and favorites are peppermint and spearmint, but orange, pineapple and apple are other good choices. Good with nearly any fruit (raspberries marry perfectly with this herb).

Mint adds refreshing taste, aroma and color to sorbets, pies, jellies, and is delicious in fruit salads. It also does well when baked with fruits such as pears or apples and the perfect choice to pair with chocolate.

Lemon balm, lemon verbena: Lemon flavored, highly aromatic herbs add both sweet and citrus flavors to desserts. Successfully used in pies, cakes, custards, jams, and jellies, you can also simply sprinkle freshly chopped in fruit salads and sorbets and other berry dishes. Verbena is denser with citrus oil than balm, so be sure to adjust your recipe accordingly.

Rose: Who doesn’t love the intoxicating aroma of roses? These scents also lend an endless variety of exotic touches to desserts. Rose petals, rosewater, and rosehips are all successfully used to create a variety of syrups, jellies, candies, and frostings.

Treat them like you would any new flavor, taste-test first to see if it leans to the sour or bitter side since no two roses are alike. Citrus fruits or other mild flavored fruits when used in tandem, accentuate the delicate scent of rose.

Lavender: Lavender pairs beautifully with the slightly nutty, sweet flavor of peaches.

Rosemary: Often used in pastries and breads, this aromatic herb is perfect for desserts too.

Angelica: Offering a woody and slightly bitter flavor, it is both a medicinal and culinary herb.

Fun and easy to use, these edible, aromatic plants add flavor and nutrients to whatever dish they are included in, including sweet desserts. They are calorie free, adding extra flavor without adding extra pounds.

You can purchase dried or fresh herbs locally but its best to go organic to be sure they have not been sprayed or irradiated with chemicals. For the most part, fresh herbs are more subtle, but fresher in flavor and require more than dried herbs which generally offer more concentrated flavor and can sometimes be a bit more bitter than the fresh variety.

Don’t be afraid to experiment growing your own herbs inside or outdoors. It can be quite rewarding to flavor and enhance your desserts with herbs from your own garden, knowing you are giving your immune system a boost at the same time.

Be adventurous and begin playing and experimenting with different herb variations in your favorite recipes and explore the possibilities and taste differences they produce.

You’ll soon become a master of “herb flavors,” enhancing all your dessert and sweet treat recipes with exotic flavors and scents while empowering them with antiviral, antibacterial and antioxidant properties of different herbs.

Remember, it is never about the amount of calories going in but about the amount of nutrients consumed. Make every bite count.

Most veggies and many herbs can be used with great success in desserts and treats and can be key to getting the required daily requirements of nutrients that your body needs.

Watch this video – How to Add Flavor to Your Desserts Using Herbs

If you are ready to expand beyond your traditional recipes and upgrade them to a more nutritional level you will love my newest creation…“Blended Bites.

Author Bio:

Carolyn Hansen is the author of The Blended Bites Healthy Snack and Dessert Recipe Collection. This is a one-stop resource for delicious, healthy, guilt-free snacks that you can eat every day. And even better, EVERY ONE of these recipes are RAW healthy snack foods that taste as good as their fattening counterparts.

You can NOW satisfy your snack urge without any negative impact on your weight loss and fitness goals, and without sweating over a hot stove. These easy-to-prepare snacks contain no sugar, no flour or butter and are paleo friendly.

So, if you want to get your hands on recipes for desserts and snacks that you will not need to feel guilty about eating the next time you have a craving for something delicious, be sure to check out Carolyn Hansen’s books at Blended Bites, where she will show you how to take control of your blender and churn out mouth-watering desserts and snacks that will have the kids in your neighborhood lined up around the block for a sample.

How to Prepare Protein Rich Veggie Desserts for Muscle Building and Weight Loss?

 

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Protein Plays an Important Role…Even in Dessert

If you are dieting. you want to lose fat and as little lean body mass as possible and the macro-nutrient protein is the key player to help us do just that.

Yet, if we take a look at the macro-nutrient composition of the average diet it consists of 50% carbohydrates, 34% fat and just 16% protein. This means that people are only receiving about 16% of their daily energy requirements from protein when protein provides so many bonus benefits.

Let’s take a look at some of the awesome benefits that protein provides:

Keeps you feeling full: Sometimes when we are dieting, our caloric intake can sometimes leave us feeling unsatisfied or even hungry. Studies prove that a higher ratio of protein in your diet is beneficial for many reasons including keeping you feeling full for longer stretches of time…a true dieter’s helper.

Protein slows down digestion and helps to keep you from going back for seconds. Bottom line is protein not only satisfies but it saves calories.

Protein for lean body mass: In order to lose body fat, it is vital that you create a caloric deficit…meaning you are burning more calories that you consume.

Unfortunately, most people do not just lose weight when dieting but they also lose precious muscle (especially if they are dieting but not performing any muscle building or maintaining exercises). The result that most people experience when on a high caloric deficit is that they lose muscle along with fat.

Protein preserves lean body mass…protein is not the macro-nutrient you want to be cutting. What you need to be cutting down on if you wish to lose fat and not muscle is nutrient-poor foods that are nothing but empty refined carbohydrates and unhealthy fats…filling you up with useless calories.

Give yourself a metabolism boost with a healthy portion of protein. It’s an easy way to eat a healthy balanced diet so that you can achieve your health and fitness goals.

Pairing protein with Carbs: You can actually slow down the absorption of sugar from your stomach to your bloodstream by pairing protein with carbohydrate rich foods. This in turn help keep your blood sugar from skyrocketing and keeps those incessant cravings at bay.

Rebuilds and Repairs: Protein is what you need…especially after you’ve just worked out intensely. However, protein cannot do the job alone so pair it up with its macro-nutrient cousins, healthy carbs and healthy fats.

With all this talk about needing protein how does that translate into Veggie Desserts? There are many plant based protein vegetables that offer a good amount of protein and are perfect for Veggie Desserts of all kinds.

Spinach offers 3 grams of protein per ½ cup and can be used in desserts, smoothies and Smoothie Bowls.

Broccoli is another veggies that offers protein…approximately 2 grams per serving…and don’t forget the fiber it also offers.

Kale is another great choice to use in your veggie desserts and smoothies…it offers about .7 grams of protein per cup.

There are other veggie choices that offer a hefty amount of protein such as Swiss chard so don’t limit yourself to this short list. In order to reach your daily recommended requirement for protein you need to eat an assortment of veggies and there is no better way to do that than to enjoy then in a dessert, smoothie or Smoothie Bowl along with your traditional meals.

For more ideas on how to prepare protein rich veggie desserts, watch this video – HEALTHY VEGAN NO BAKE DESSERTS ‣‣ easy to make!

If you are ready to expand beyond your traditional perception of how veggies should be used you will love my newest creation…“Blended Bites.”

Truth is, most veggies can be used with great success in desserts and treats and can be key to getting the required daily requirements.

Author Bio:

Carolyn Hansen is the author of The Blended Bites Healthy Snack and Dessert Recipe Collection. This is a one-stop resource for delicious, healthy, guilt-free snacks that you can eat every day. And even better, EVERY ONE of these recipes are RAW healthy snack foods that taste as good as their fattening counterparts.

You can NOW satisfy your snack urge without any negative impact on your weight loss and fitness goals, and without sweating over a hot stove. These easy-to-prepare snacks contain no sugar, no flour or butter and are paleo friendly.

So, if you want to get your hands on recipes for desserts and snacks that you will not need to feel guilty about eating the next time you have a craving for something delicious, be sure to check out Carolyn Hansen’s books at Blended Bites, where she will show you how to take control of your blender and churn out mouth-watering desserts and snacks that will have the kids in your neighborhood lined up around the block for a sample.

How to Prepare Nutrient Dense Tasty Desserts Using Chia Seeds?

 

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Chia Seeds Provide Super Nutrition

As science opens the door to the secrets of nutrition, more and more foods are surfacing as super-foods…foods that go beyond the norm when it comes to providing nutrition for our bodies.

Chia seed is one of those super-foods. As one of nature’s most perfect natural foods, it is regarded by many health and nutrition experts as the pinnacle of superfoods. Some of them even declare that if they were only allowed one food daily…chia seeds would be the chosen one.

Chia seeds supply our bodies with super nutrition. They taste good are inexpensive and mix well with most foods. There are many medical conditions that Chia seeds help with and weight loss is just one of those.

Although Chia seeds have recently enjoyed a resurgence in modern times, this little super seed is not to man. The Aztecs, Mayans and Inca cultures all revered this seed, considered it a mega energy food and carried it with them throughout the day for a boost of energy. It was so important to these cultures that they even traded it as currency. To the Mayans chia actually meant “strength.”

Chia is an annual herb that produces white and purple flowers that eventually go to seed. The seeds are little and oval in shape. They can be white, gray, black or brown.

There are no toxic effects documented from chia seeds so they are safe to consume without worry.

Besides the wealth of vitamins and minerals provided, the benefits of chia seed are:

High Energy: Chia seed is a mega energy food and provides sustainable energy that will easily carry you through your cardio or resistance workouts. It also provides twice the potassium of bananas.

High Protein: Chia seed is a complete protein source containing all 19 amino acids in balance. They are higher in protein than any other grain, chia’s protein is absorbed and digests easily and is the perfect replacement for protein in protein shakes.

Antioxidant Rich: Chia is rich in antioxidants…even more so than blueberries. This gives chia seed a long shelf life.

Fiber Rich: Consuming chia seed daily aids digestion and regularity. They detox your system and clean your intestines. Providing both soluble dietary fiber and insoluble dietary fiber.

Reduces Joint Pain: Consuming chia seed on a daily basis can greatly reduce or eliminate joint pain.

Aids with Weight-loss: Chia helps to fill you up so you eat less, but does not weigh you down.

Although chia are perfect for human consumption, insects don’t like it which allows it to remain pesticide free.

Chia can be consumed so many different ways. You can enjoy this super seed all alone as a snack or sprinkle them generously on soups, salads, cereals and yogurt.

They are perfect in juices, smoothies, Smoothie bowls or shakes. Some people simply stir a few tablespoons into water, let them sit for a few minutes until they soften a bit and then drink them down.

Because the taste of chia seeds is relatively mild to no flavor they can be easily cooked into foods without changing the flavor but boosting the nutrient value considerably. They are the perfect addition to healthy desserts…both traditional and veggie based desserts.

Isn’t it time you began introducing this nutrient-dense super-seed into your dishes…including your desserts?

To learn how to prepare nutrient dense tasty desserts, watch this video – HOW TO MAKE CHIA PUDDING ‣‣ 6 Amazing Chia Pudding Recipes

You’ll find some exciting veggie based dessert recipes in my new “Blended Bites” recipe book that include this super food.

Author Bio:

Carolyn Hansen is the author of The Blended Bites Healthy Snack and Dessert Recipe Collection. This is a one-stop resource for delicious, healthy, guilt-free snacks that you can eat every day. And even better, EVERY ONE of these recipes are RAW healthy snack foods that taste as good as their fattening counterparts.

You can NOW satisfy your snack urge without any negative impact on your weight loss and fitness goals, and without sweating over a hot stove. These easy-to-prepare snacks contain no sugar, no flour or butter and are paleo friendly.

So, if you want to get your hands on recipes for desserts and snacks that you will not need to feel guilty about eating the next time you have a craving for something delicious, be sure to check out Carolyn Hansen’s books at Blended Bites, where she will show you how to take control of your blender and churn out mouth-watering desserts and snacks that will have the kids in your neighborhood lined up around the block for a sample.

How to Add Taste and Color to Your Desserts Using Vegetables?

 

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Add Taste and Color to Your Desserts Using Vegetables – Yummy Green Coconut Fudge

Adding taste and color to desserts using veggies is not a new idea but is gaining serious attention once again as more and more people get focused on getting nutritional benefit from every bite they eat…including dessert.

Let’s face it, the Internet is making people much wiser.  They understand that it’s not about the amount of calories eaten but more about what those calories offer or lack when it comes to nutrition that really matters.

Truth is, calories are not created equal and if optimal health and weight maintenance are important to you every calorie that goes in does matter. What good does it do anyone…especially you if what you are eating is foods that do nothing but rob you of your vitality and in the end your health? Is it really worth that small “pleasure”…that momentary high to jeopardize your future?

The trend towards enjoying foods in as close to “raw” as possible state and squeezing nutrition into snacks and desserts as well as other primary meals, has re-emerged with veggies playing the starring role as well as supporting roles as subtle flavors and textures.

There are many dark green vegetables available that can be used with great success in creating sweet dishes as well as savory ones. Spinach is one of those dark green veggies and contains one of the most active coloring agents of all greens.

It is easy to grow and find and the perfect addition to any dessert recipes for flavor, texture and color.

Fudge is a family favorite both as a dessert and sweet snack most likely because it can be created in endless varieties…mixing endless ingredients and anyone worth their weight in candy-making gold has tried their hand at making great fudge.

However, not everyone has ventured into the “unknown” and brought spinach into their fudge mixture.

Not only is this fudge tasty…with added nutrition, but it offers a beautiful festive color that can add spice to your table during holidays or simply bring a smile to the face of the child who loves color.

Isn’t it time you enjoyed your fudge without your gremlins’ kicking in?

Green Coconut Fudge

• 2 bananas
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• ¼ cup coconut oil, warmed until liquid
• 1 tablespoon honey
• Handful of fresh spinach

Place all ingredients into the food processer and process until mixture is smooth and creamy.

Spoon out and spread into a small dish or pan. Place in fridge to firm up.

Cut into bars.

Who knew such healthy creations could be made so easily and satisfy a “sweet” tooth so completely…all while benefiting health with added nutrition?

To learn how to add taste and color to your desserts using vegetables, watch this video – 3 Easy No-Bake VEGAN Dessert Recipes

As the younger generation would claim “Sweet!”…it doesn’t get any better than this!

For more delicious veggie based dessert and treat recipes visit: “Blended Bites” …you’ll be pleasantly surprised with what you can create with veggies.

Author Bio:

Carolyn Hansen is the author of The Blended Bites Healthy Snack and Dessert Recipe Collection. This is a one-stop resource for delicious, healthy, guilt-free snacks that you can eat every day. And even better, EVERY ONE of these recipes are RAW healthy snack foods that taste as good as their fattening counterparts.

You can NOW satisfy your snack urge without any negative impact on your weight loss and fitness goals, and without sweating over a hot stove. These easy-to-prepare snacks contain no sugar, no flour or butter and are paleo friendly.

So, if you want to get your hands on recipes for desserts and snacks that you will not need to feel guilty about eating the next time you have a craving for something delicious, be sure to check out Carolyn Hansen’s books at Blended Bites, where she will show you how to take control of your blender and churn out mouth-watering desserts and snacks that will have the kids in your neighborhood lined up around the block for a sample.

Simple Vertigo Exercises – What is the Best Way to Cure All Types of Vertigo?

 

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Cure All Types of Vertigo – This Vitamin Cures Vertigo

Up to now, the traditional medical system had no reliable solution for the most common type of vertigo.

A study in the latest edition of the journal Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, now shows that taking one type of mineral and one type of vitamin together can cure it.

Best of all, both the vitamin and mineral are dirt cheap and available in all supermarkets.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the type of vertigo in which calcium carbonate crystals detach from a membrane in your inner ear and fall inside the semicircular canals nearby, where they irritate nerve hairs that then send false balance information to your brain.

Many previous studies have discovered that people with low calcium and vitamin D levels are more likely to suffer from this type of vertigo, probably because the calcium in our inner ears is meant to be strong enough to not detach from its location—this doesn’t occur in people who have enough calcium and vitamin D in their bodies.

Calcium and vitamin D are both important, as our bodies need both of them to build strong calcium structures like bones.

Researchers in South Korea identified 957 people who had been diagnosed with this type of vertigo at H different hospitals between 2013 and 2017. They were all treated successfully with a series of head movements.

They were divided into two groups: an intervention group and an observation group.

The intervention group consisted of 445 people; 348 of them had vitamin D levels below 20 ng/mL (nanograms per milliliter of blood) and were given supplements with 400 IU (international units) of vitamin D and 500 mg (milligrams) of calcium twice a day.

The participants in the intervention group whose vitamin D levels were at least 20 ng/mL were not given any supplements.

The observation group consisted of 512 people who were neither given vitamin D tests nor placed on supplements.

When compared with those in the observation group, those in the intervention group who took supplements experienced a 24 percent reduction in the rate of recurrence of their vertigo.

Those who had the lowest vitamin D levels at the beginning of the study reaped the greatest benefit, with participants whose scores were lower than 10 ng/mL seeing a 45 percent reduction in recurrence, while those with scores between 10 and 20 ng/mL saw a 14 percent reduction.

In total, 47 percent of participants in the observation group suffered another vertigo attack, while only 38 percent of those in the intervention group did.

So, for at least some, the vitamin and mineral cured their condition, while for others, it drastically improved it.

But a much simpler way to cure all types of vertigo is the simple vertigo exercises explained here…

Cure All Types of Vertigo – Vertigo and Anxiety Both Eliminated in One Blow

Over half of people suffering vertigo also experience anxiety or panic attacks, and researchers started to wonder if one leads to the other.

In a new study published in the International Journal of Research Science and Management, a team of scientists used a simple method to eliminate one condition, and the other disappeared with it.

According to one of the studies cited in the literature review of the new paper, around 45 percent of people with vertigo have anxiety disorder, while 15 percent tend to have panic disorder. The concern exists that these problems may become worse and even permanent if the vertigo is not treated quickly.

For this reason, two Indonesian researchers decided to examine whether anxiety and agoraphobia scores improved after treatment of vertigo patients with the canalith repositioning procedure (also called the Epley maneuver).

The researchers recruited 38 people who had been diagnosed with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) through a physical examination of the years and through eye-movement tests during head movements.

All participants were all 18 years or older. Those who were on medication, who suffered from any other ear or balance disorder, and who were known to suffer from anxiety or agoraphobia before the study were excluded.

After the BPPV diagnoses, the subjects were given questionnaires to complete for assessment of their anxiety and agoraphobia scores.

They then underwent the canalith repositioning procedure and were told to return for re-evaluation 7 and 14 days after the procedure.

Those who benefited from the treatment, which was pretty much all of them, also experienced a reduction in agoraphobia and anxiety.

If you’re suffering vertigo, learn the simple exercises to eliminate it here…

And if you feel anxious, try the easy way to eliminate anxiety for good here…

Cure All Types of Vertigo – Play These Games to Treat Your Vertigo

For most of us, curing a disease is not on the list of “the most fun thing in the world to do.” Doctor’s visits, medications, surgeries, etc. are simply not fun.

But this may all be changing for vertigo sufferers.

A team of scientists from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and New York University has just created a game to treat vertigo.

And it’s effective, too.

A common way to treat different types of vertigo is to retrain your brain to interpret the scrambled balance information it receives from your ears, eyes, and posture.

This involves walking around, moving your body, and making head movements that trigger your vertigo, over and over again, until your brain no longer perceives these benign movements as unusual and potentially harmful movements that trigger the sensation of vertigo.

But if you already experience vertigo, persuading yourself to trigger it deliberately requires a lot of motivation. What if you hurt yourself falling, for example, or what if people laugh at you when you fall over?

The researchers in this new study tested one possible solution; namely, a virtual reality app with a head-mounted display that simulates progressively more complex situations.

Their study appears in the latest edition of the journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.

Their app simulated a virtual street, an airport, a subway, or a park, with all the normal detail in which we experience them in real life provided via the virtual reality headset. As such, an app like this simulates real-world sensory environments and thereby triggers our typical responses to them.

The researchers could control the amount of detail their subjects received, from the number of fellow pedestrians and their walking speed to the potential directions in which it was possible to walk.

Accordingly, they could gradually increase the visual and auditory load experienced by the subjects.

The scientists recruited 28 vertigo sufferers. Some of them had a traumatic brain injury, some had vestibular migraine, and others had peripheral vestibular disorders.

Before and after the virtual reality intervention, the participants were given several questionnaires to complete to measure their level of dizziness, their other vertigo symptoms, and their performance on specific activities.

In addition, they were asked to complete the “8-foot Up-and-Go” and Four-Step Square Test. The former tests speed, agility, and balance while moving around, while the latter tests our ability to keep our balance while stepping over objects forward, sideways, and backward.

Unfortunately, many participants dropped out of the study, leaving only 15 who completed the entire program.

Of the 15, 12 subjects had peripheral vestibular disorders and every one of them improved significantly on almost all the questionnaires.

They reported being able to respond to complex visual stimuli with only minimal vertigo, they reported a reduction in dizziness, and they reported an improvement in their functioning when engaging in specific activities.

They also showed an improvement in the Four-Step Square Test.

Two of the other three subjects had a traumatic brain injury and their vertigo and ability to accomplish tasks also improved.

The only person who did not benefit from this exercise was the one remaining subject with vestibular migraine.

Therefore, a gradual increase in environmental complexity in a safe virtual reality setting shows some promise for treating vertigo.

Watch this video – Cure All Types of Vertigo with Simple Exercises (BPPV) – Ask Doctor Jo

But a much simpler method is a simple set of vertigo exercises that often eliminate vertigo for good the very first day. You can learn these vertigo exercises here…

This post is from the Vertigo and Dizziness Program, which was created by Christian Goodman. This is natural vertigo treatment program created for people who are looking for the most effective vertigo home remedies, that utilizes the power of exercises to permanently eliminate vertigo symptoms.

This will help to eliminate tension and improve your blood flow and balance. From this Vertigo Relief Program, you will learn to strengthen your tongue, achieve whole-body balance, relieve tension and enhance your overall well-being.

To find out more about this program, click on Cure All Types of Vertigo Permanently