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Season For Health: A Guide For Using Herbs and Spices For Your Home Cooking

8 pp. / Studies have demonstrated the health benefits of herbs and spices from antioxidant capacity, anti-inflammatory properties, and cancer-preventative or cancer-fighting properties. Additionally, herbs and spices are beneficial to reducing salt and fat intake by providing an alternative method for flavoring food. The addition or increase of herbs and spices in a regular diet may increase consumption of vegetables. This article explains the definitions of herbs and spices, as well as the positive health benefits associated with both. This article also outlines how to find and incorporate many herbs and spices available to Arizonans and the surrounding community into everyday diet, while including the affordability of each.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/593578
Date10 1900
CreatorsHongu, Nobuko, Farr, Kiah J., Nakagomi, Yuri
PublisherCollege of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Book
SourceCALS Publications Archive. The University of Arizona.
RelationUniversity of Arizona Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin AZ1686-2015

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