Quinoa flakes are super simple and quick to cook. You can use them in porridge, baking, smoothies and much more. They are often underestimated in the amount of ways you can incorporate them into your diet!

Qunioa is a super nutritious food for many reasons. What makes it special is that it is also a slow-release carb. Read on to find out why this is important to your health and why it is so important to incorporate quinoa into your diet.

Genetically modified crops are now being made to produce crops that produce infertile seeds. So not only are farmers around the world having to buy the specific insecticide and pesticide that goes with their crops but each year are having to repurchase from the agrochemichal giants the seeds to be sown. That might just be OK for rich world farmers, although I doubt it, but for farmers in poor and middle income countries being irrevocably in hoc to an agrochemical giant cannot be sensible. Traditional seeds, before the advent of GM crops, weren’t much better. Via selective breeding pretty much...

Refined Carbs. They’re buzzwords, and overused ones at that. What ACTUALLY is a refined carb? And why are we all so desperate to avoid them? Well, simply put, they are everyday foodstuffs, such as white bread and white rice or pasta that during the industrial process have been stripped of much of their goodness. For example, the wheat used in white bread has had its fibre-rich outer coating stripped away, and its nutrient-packed inner germ has been squashed to oblivion in the milling process. We end up being left with the starchy endosperm. So when we eat white bread or...