Recipes
Dishes built from the ingredients covered here, written around cooking that preserves nutrients.
104 recipes
20 min · 2 servings
Corn sautéed with garlic butter
The butter is not only for flavour. Corn's lutein is fat-soluble and absorbs poorly without it.
30 min · 3 servings
Coconut chickpea curry
There are places where coconut oil cannot be replaced. This is one of them — and one tablespoon is enough.
10 min · 2 servings
Unsweetened cinnamon milk tea
Milk tea made without sugar. A single bottle of the shop-bought kind routinely carries more than 30 g.
30 min · 2 servings
Quinoa and grapefruit salad
Quinoa has to be rinsed or it tastes bitter. And if you take medication, grapefruit is the ingredient to check first.
40 min · 3 servings
Turmeric and pepper fried rice
Cooking turmeric with pepper is an old practice. But that famous '2,000 % absorption' came from a trial of ten people.
10 min · 2 servings
Cranberry yoghurt bowl
One Brazil nut per person, no more. With a nut whose selenium content you cannot know, counting is the method.
10 min · 1 servings
Prune and pistachio porridge
Five prunes is the daily dose that worked in the trial. The pistachios go on after the heat is off, or they go soft.
20 min · 2 servings
Clear kelp and tofu soup
The iodine stays in the broth, not in the piece you lift out. So the kelp goes in small, and comes out before the boil.
5 min · 1 servings
Kefir and berry smoothie
The kefir has to be plain, and the flaxseed has to be ground. Whole flaxseed passes straight through.
10 min · 1 servings
Cheese and spinach omelette
Cheese in the pan instead of butter. Do not salt it — one slice already brings 183 mg of sodium.
25 min · 2 servings
Boiled soybean and tomato salad
The beans need more than 30 minutes at a hard boil. The tomatoes are not only for flavour — they are there to pull the iron out of the beans.
10 min · 1 servings
Cocoa and banana porridge
Two tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa and you need no sugar. The banana does the sweetness.