Diets

Fructose and pancreatic cancer.

Fructose tends to be metabolized differently than glucose. Perhaps the most important difference is that fructose tends to be metabolized in the liver, while glucose...

What Foods Contain Phytate?

PHYTATE IS FOUND IN HIGH AMOUNTS IN SEEDS AND UNREFINED (whole) CEREAL GRAINS  (in the bran and the outer hulls), also found in the outer...

The Okinawan diet.

The Okinawa Longevity diet is plant-based: 98 percent vegetarian and 96 percent vegan. A whopping 85% carbs. Okinawans eat huge amounts of Starch, and Grain....

Phytic acid.

Phytase is the enzyme that neutralizes phytic acid and liberates the phosphorus. This enzyme co-exists in plant foods that contain phytic acid. Ruminant animals such...

PHYTASE enzymes break down phytate.

WHAT IS PHYTASE AND WHAT DOES IT DO?   ♦      Phytase is any type of phosphatase enzyme that breaks down phytic acid (chemicallycalled dephosphorylation, produces...