Healthy Foods: Coconut Water

Healthy Foods

The products of the coconut palm are vast and, in some parts of the tropics, one tree provides almost all that is necessary for a family to feed and support itself. We’ll be focusing on just the nutritional benefits of the water from a young coconut. The water taken directly from a young coconut has…

Healthy Foods: Cinnamon

Healthy Foods

While in the West we appreciate cinnamon for it’s flavor and scent, adding it to deserts and whatnot with perhaps a twinge of guilt, in the East cinnamon has long been used for its healing benefits. Cinnamon is a very good source of fiber, iron and calcium and an excellent source of manganese. But its…