Many recipes use cups instead of grams to indicate quantities. This often causes confusion, because how big should the cup be that is used for measuring? After all, a cup measures volume, not weight; a cup of water does not have the same number of grams as a cup of rice.

The weight varies depending on the density of the material.

Here is a list of the most common ingredients with conversion from cup to gram.

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Pineapples are a type of fruit native to Central and South America. It has a high vitamin content and is also said to have special healing properties. Like all fresh fruit, pineapple is low in fat, protein and cholesterol and high in fibre.

Pineapples mainly contain vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese and potassium, as well as fruit acids, vanillin, essential oil and the digestive enzyme bromelain.
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Proteins, sometimes incorrectly referred to as egg whites, are one of the most important building blocks of the human body.

Around 20 per cent of the dry matter of each cell consists of proteins.

A distinction is made between animal and vegetable proteins, with vegetable proteins being even more important for the body than animal proteins. If you combine purely vegetable proteins with proteins from milk and dairy products, you get the optimum biological nutritional value.
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Guideline for the basic requirement of daily calories that a person needs to maintain their body weight without taking into account sporting activities at different ages.
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There are numerous variations of masala chai, as the Indians call their spiced tea. Each family has its own blend of spices, but they are all sweet, hot and strongly flavoured. There are spice blends that promote a good mood, calming or digestive preparations.

This is how to prepare genuine Indian spiced tea according to a classic recipe:
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Mint tea is to Morocco what coffee is to the Germans. Aromatic mint tea is served at every get-together, whether private or business. Genuine Moroccan mint tea is something quite different from the well-known conventional peppermint tea.

This is how you prepare real Moroccan mint tea:

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It's often not the amount of food we eat that makes us fat. It's the sneaky little fattening foods that are hidden in our diet without us realising it.

Drinks are one of the most underestimated calorie bombs, because people often don't know the calorie content of drinks. Healthy does not automatically mean low in calories.
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The shelf life of frozen food depends primarily on the capacity of the freezer. To find out the capacity of the appliance, you can look at the operating instructions, but the information is usually also given on the appliance itself, namely on the doors of the refrigerator compartments.
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Nowadays, most people store their food in the fridge to extend its shelf life. This is all well and good, but not for all foods, even if it has become common practice to store them this way.

Although the shelf life can indeed be extended with cold in many cases, this is usually at the expense of flavour or consistency and the loss of important nutrients.
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The shelf life of food is one of those things, because we know that it is often edible well beyond its printed best-before date, especially when it comes to industrially produced products that have not yet been opened.
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