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Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts

How healthy are nuts?

Hazelnuts
Most people actually eat nuts, especially at Christmas time. They are part of Printen, gingerbread and dominoes.

Unfortunately, competition from sweet treats often takes away some of their popularity, meaning that they are often the very last thing left on the Christmas plate. Nevertheless, when you eat almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts and Brazil nuts, you realise time and again that they are really delicious.
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Taste, man tastes wine
Taste, man tastes wine

Flavour enhancers in food, are they harmful?

Taste, man tastes wine
If you look at the list of ingredients in industrially produced foods, you will discover the addition of flavour enhancers in many of them, mostly sodium glutamate or monosodium glutamate.

Flavour enhancers are added because industrially manufactured products often lose a lot of flavour due to the complex processing procedures, which is to be restored with the addition of flavour enhancers.
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Homemade marmelade
Make your own jam

Preserving jam

Homemade marmelade
Jam consists primarily of fruit and sugar, which is boiled down to gel on the one hand and to preserve it on the other. It is not difficult to make your own jam at home, but it does involve a bit of work.

Firstly, select the fruit to be preserved and prepare the utensils.
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homemade pizza
homemade pizza

Make your own pizza

homemade pizza
Pizza, the universally popular Italian dish, still tastes best at the Italian restaurant. The American version has also found its fans and the spread of several well-known pizza chains from the USA has been unstoppable in Germany since the 1980s.

Nevertheless, it is a dish that you can prepare wonderfully at home and that should put most frozen products in the shade, because it has the advantage that you can also put together the topping exactly to your own taste.
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Garlic bulb and garlic clove
Garlic bulb

Cooking with garlic

Garlic bulb and garlic clove
Garlic, although notorious for its intense aroma, especially after eating, is a favourite with many people and some dishes would be unthinkable without it.

Nutritionists keep telling us that it is also healthy, as it helps to optimise the cardiovascular system by stimulating the production of hydrogen sulphide in the blood. It can help to lower high blood pressure and even prevents some types of cancer, such as stomach and bowel cancer and colds.
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Kefir is fermented milk
Fermented milk, kefir

Kefir - how to prepare a kefir mushroom yourself

Kefir is fermented milk
Do you know kefir? You have probably already discovered a kefir milk product in the supermarket chiller cabinet or have been a fan of this drink for a long time.

But did you know that you can also make your own kefir culture at home and that it can provide fresh kefir milk for daily use for a long time?

In the past, almost every household had such a kefir mushroom, especially in rural areas, so older people will no doubt smile when they see that kefir mushrooms for the home are now being touted as a novelty.
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3 raw carrots, is raw food unhealthy?
raw moors

Nutritional errors?

3 raw carrots, is raw food unhealthy?
In the course of their lives, people learn a great deal about themselves and the world and how they should organise their lives. However, depending on the culture, level of education and state of research, these things are different and mistakes creep in again and again, which are very difficult to correct.

This is particularly true when it comes to nutrition. If you ask different peoples about this, you may get similar answers as long as they are on a general level, e.g. people all over the world know that fruit and vegetables contain vitamins and should be important components of our diet.
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