Monday, March 26, 2018

Chocolate Black Bean Protein Shake  - dry bean to canned bean converssion chart

Chocolate Black Bean Protein Shake

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Description

Sneak some extra nutrition into your morning with this Chocolate Black Bean Protein Shake. Full of fiber, protein and chocolate-y goodness, you won’t even remember there are beans in it!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 Tablespoon honey
  • 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 Tablespoon nut butter
  • 1 cup black beans (no salt added), drained and rinsed
  • 1 banana, sliced and frozen*
  • 1 cup ice

Instructions

  1. Place ingredients in blender in the order listed. Blend on high for 30-60 seconds, or until smooth.
  2. Pour into 2 serving glasses and enjoy!


How do I know how much dried beans to use in place of canned beans?

If your recipe calls for canned beans and you want to use dried beans instead, have no fear!  Below I have created a conversion chart to help you make the switch!  Cans of beans are usually 15-ounce cans, while most small bags of dried beans are about 1 pound.  All numbers are approximate, of course, but seem to work well.
Dried to Canned Beans Conversion. How to Cook with Dried Beans - By Dietitian Brittany

*Bonus Recipe*

Have I convinced you to cook with dried beans yet?  Take a look at this bonus recipe! 
I wouldn’t leave you hanging with all this newfound knowledge on how to cook with dried beans and not provide you with anything to use them in!  As promised, below is a great recipe using dried beans.  I first made this recipe back in my dietetic student days at USU for a health fair.  I cooked it up with a few of my dietitian-to-be classmates and served it to our fellow Aggies.  I don’t want to brag or anything, but it was kind of DELICIOUS!  It is so simple yet results in a great flavor.  Go ahead and give it a try!

Spicy Black Bean Soup (in the slow cooker)

Spicy Black Bean Soup

  • Author: Brittany Poulson
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  • Prep Time: 8 hours
  • Cook Time: 6 hours
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  • Total Time: 14 hours
  • Yield: 12 / 6 oz. portions
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  • Category: Soups/Stews

Description

Prep may take a while, but it is easy because you are soaking the beans overnight (all the work is done while you are sleeping). The cooking is done in a slow cooker, so you don’t have to do much work for that either! Just plan ahead for the soaking and the time it takes to cook, then throw it all together and go about your daily business while it cooks to perfection!

Ingredients

  • 1 pound dry black beans, soaked overnight
  • 6 cups chicken broth
  • 4 teaspoons diced Guajillo Chile pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 Tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
  • 4 garlic cloves, diced
  • 1 large onion, diced

    • Instructions

    1. Once the beans have soaked overnight, place in crock-pot and add remaining ingredients (adjust the seasonings and/or spices to desired spiciness).
    2. Cook on high for 4 hours, reduce heat and continue to cook for 2 hours or until beans are soft.
    3. Garnish with low fat sour cream and cilantro.
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New Genetically Engineered Corn Could Revolutionize Our Agriculture

https://futurism.com/new-genetically-engineered-corn-could-revolutionize-our-agricul...
Oct 10, 2017 - New research shows how, with the addition of a bacterial gene, corn's nutritional value can be efficiently enhanced. The gene enables corn, the largest commodity crop in the world, to produce methionine, a key amino acid essential for tissue repair and growth. By producing a staple crop that contains ..


Does Corn on the Cob Provide All of the Essential Amino Acids ...

https://www.livestrong.com › Food and Drink
Oct 3, 2017 - Corn does have all of the essential amino acids but is considered a "low-quality" protein or what used to be called an "incomplete"... ... must be provided through your diet. The nine essential amino acids are: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lycine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine

Corn does have all of the essential amino acids but is considered a "low-quality" protein or what used to be called an "incomplete" protein. Low-quality protein foods may be lacking or have very low quantities of the nine essential amino acids and, therefore, should be combined with other foods to provide adequate amounts of all essential amino acids. All protein is comprised of amino acids, and essential amino acids cannot be made by the body, meaning they must be provided through your diet. The nine essential amino acids are: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lycine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine.


Lentils are tiny nutritional powerhouses that offer a variety of health benefits. They are often star players in a balanced vegetarian diet. While lentils do contain all nine essential amino acids that are required by humans, they are low in the amino acid methionine, so you should not rely on them as your sole source of protein. When lentils are consumed along with other plant foods that are rich in methionine, you'll get the right amounts of all of the amino acids that your body needs.


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corn  methionine nixtamalization


Process for production of nixtamalized and non-nixtamalized millet ...

https://www.researchgate.net/.../Process-for-production-of-nixtamalized-and-non-nixtam...
Maasa is a spontaneously fermented millet-based fried cake in Ghana. Nixtamalization, a process of cooking and soaking cereals (usually maize) in lime solution, was applied in the traditional processing of the Ghanaian millet-based fermented maasa. During the processing, Lime cooked millet dough (LCMD) and water ...


Studies and Biological Assays in Corn Tortillas ... - Wiley Online Library

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2002.tb09476.x/pdf
tained by the extrusion process and to compare them to tortillas made by the traditional nixtamalizationprocess. Materials and Methods. Raw corn meal. Commercial Toluca ... The residual liquid was discarded and the cooked corn (nixtamal) was washed 3 .... lysine to form LAL, with cysteine to form LAT, or with serine to.

ABSTRACT: :
The nutritional composition and protein efficiency ratio (PER) of raw corn meal and of tortillas prepared by extrusion and nixtamalization processes were determined. Rats were fed with diets containing unprocessed raw corn meal (RCM), tortillas prepared from extruded fresh masa without lime (ET), tortillas made from extruded fresh masa with 0.25% lime content (ETWL), and tortillas made with the traditional nixtamalization method (NT). The ETWL had higher protein (8.50%) and dietary fiber (14.52%) contents than did the NT (8.15% protein and 7.39% dietary fiber). The PER value of the ETWL diet was 14.65% higher (P ≤ 0.05) than that of the RCM diet and equivalent to that of the NT diet.


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