Pea protein is a vegan protein from yellow peas. Just like all proteins from legumes pea protein is deficient in one of the essential for humans amino acid – methionine. I use a pea protein that has a PDCAAS (Protein Digestability Corrected Amino Acid Score) of 82% and this is precisely because the methionine is [...]
Yes, it seems it exists… I just recently found out about it… and I already ordered a bottle. It’s called Palatinose. The chemical name is Isomaltulose. Palatinose is actually as close as it can get chemically to table sugar – sucrose. The only difference chemically is a little tweak with the bond between glucose and [...]
You know, I never asked myself this question before. I’ve always known that oils don’t have fiber at all. But then I also know that flax seed is one of the best sources of fiber that a person can find out there… So, I had to check to see if there is any fiber in [...]
I am not going to uncover a great secret if I say that athletes (bodybuilders even more) rely more on meat to cover their high needs for proteins. And it’s not a great secret that the most delicious way to cook steak or chicken, or even fish is to grill them. But then the issue [...]
You see, where I come from using microwave oven for heating food and cooking wasn’t that popular up until the recent may be 10 years. When I got a microwave my mother would tell me “Don’t use this thing to cook in it! It kills all the vitamins and valuable nutrients”. She was (and still [...]