Bulletin Food and Cake

Posts Tagged ‘Healthy Food’

Parents who want to suppress the disease coughs, stomach pain, or infection in their children, it is recommended to provide probiotic-rich yogurt every day.

Probiotics are living microorganisms in food supplements that have beneficial effects for the body to improve balance in the digestive tract microorganism. If the balance is disturbed, bad bacteria will increase and cause health problems.

A study conducted by a team of scientists from Georgetown University Medical Center on 600 children aged 3-6 years showed that both Lactobacillus casei strains of bacteria have a positive effect to counteract a variety of infectious diseases.

The children in the study were given daily yogurt contains good bacteria for three months. Read the rest of this entry »

Is the amount of pancreas or thymus gland in your diet not sufficient? Do you want to beef it up? Well, there is one dish which you can gorge upon and not even feel guilty because you would be getting that dose of thymus and pancreas in your diet! I think by now you might have what I am alluding to! Yes, I am making a reference to none other than the delicious sweetbreads! These are not to be confused with sweet meat and sweetbread, to be specific, is pancreas and thymus of a calf, lamb or a piglet (under 1 year old). These are also categorized or classified as offal’s in culinary jargon and set up. In case this has not satisfied your hunger to know more about sweetbreads, what are they and the likes, the text to come is for you!

Sweetbreads – What are they
The name sweetbread is entirely different from what it actually is and the etymology of the word might be a possible explanation of the name. The word has supposedly originated from old English and since the taste of thymus is rich and sweet, it might be called sweet. The bread must have come from the old English word ‘braed’, referring to flesh. Moving on, though, sweetbreads are also known by the name ‘ris’. The thymus is referred to as throat sweetbread and the pancreas is known as heart or stomach sweetbread, most often than not these are derived from a calf and lamb. The heart sweetbread is spherical in shape and throat sweetbread surrounds them, which are cylindrical in shape. Beef sweetbreads are also eaten, but less as compared to calf and lambs.

How to Cook Sweetbreads
Read the rest of this entry »