Tag Archives: fruits
Scrub Your Grub!
By Laura Slatalla, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Step one, before cutting into vegetables or taking a bite of fruit, is to wash all produce. Produce needs to be washed to get rid of any dirt or bacteria picked up along … Continue reading
Planting Through the Low Desert Seasons
By Cricket Aldridge, Urban Farm Lifestyle Editor One of the coolest things about gardening in the Sonoran Desert is that we can grow every month of the year, with the hardest time to grow being July through September, although … Continue reading
5 Tips to Encourage Healthy Eating Habits
By: Lori Meszaros, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student If you walked into a school lunch room and saw children lining up for the salad bar, you’d probably wonder, “what are they putting in that salad bar to make those … Continue reading
Introducing Babies to Solid Foods
By Kevann Jordan, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student When a baby is born its mother is able to provide for all of his or her nutritional needs through breast milk until about 6 months old. According to the La Leche … Continue reading
Body Breakdown: How We Process Nutrients
By Alise Robers, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student The calories that your body doesn’t use right away for energy are either disposed of as waste or stored as fat.1 However, your body doesn’t treat all calories equally. Fiber and … Continue reading