Obscure super foods

[Marduk]

I'm disappointed in you guys. I listed a legitimate side-effect of spinach. Ah well. I'll just go back to my fecology.

[Rifka]

I'm disappointed in you guys. I listed a legitimate side-effect of spinach. Ah well. I'll just go back to my fecology.

I believe the word you're looking for is scatology, Marduk. Although, I like your invented word better.

[NerdGirl]

There are chia seeds in this gluten-free granola I used to buy from the Halifax farmers' market, and they were pretty tasty, but they didn't make all of my wildest dreams come true. As far as I can tell, they are nutritionally very similar to flax seeds and behave much the same way in baking (as in you can soak ground up seeds in water and it acts as binder to replace eggs or xanthan/guar gum). But flax seeds are like 1/6th the price of chia seeds, so flax is the winner for me.

[Wisteria]

Heh. Rifka and Marduk, at the lab where I work there's one division called "Parasitology and Fecal Testing." Every time I walk by the door I give thanks that I do not work in there.
One time in our company newsletter, in the marriage announcements, they had an announcement that two lab techs from aforementioned lab were getting married. For some reason the thought of their courtship made me giggle.

[krebscout]

I should do better about restraining myself sometimes.

I think we've all thought to ourselves, "Gee, that Laser Jock really needs to restrain himself better," at some point or another.

[Katya]

I should do better about restraining myself sometimes.

I think we've all thought to ourselves, "Gee, that Laser Jock really needs to restrain himself better," at some point or another.

Oh good, we're finally staging an intervention!

[Dragon Lady]

Heh. Rifka and Marduk, at the lab where I work there's one division called "Parasitology and Fecal Testing." Every time I walk by the door I give thanks that I do not work in there.
One time in our company newsletter, in the marriage announcements, they had an announcement that two lab techs from aforementioned lab were getting married. For some reason the thought of their courtship made me giggle.

My friend's dad used to work at a hospital testing urine and fecal matter, among other things. One time someone asked her what her dad did and she answered, "He tests urine and crap," meaning urine, etc. But her choice of "etc." made me giggle for days.

[Dragon Lady]

Iron .8mg (while that is 5%DV/s, I had expected much more. C'mon spinach, you're not living up to your rep. Good on ya for that vit K though, dang.)

I looked up another site and it listed 1 cup of raw spinach as having 1 mg of iron and 1/2 cup boiled spinach as having 2mg. I'm guessing, then, that 2 cups of raw boils down to 1/2 cup, since I can't fathom spinach increasing in iron via boiling. Plus, spinach really, really does cook down.

But spinach is still considered a high-iron source by most everyone.

[Laser Jock]

I should do better about restraining myself sometimes.

I think we've all thought to ourselves, "Gee, that Laser Jock really needs to restrain himself better," at some point or another.

I knew it!

[krebscout]

I got this link from chilly, and it reminded me of this conversation:

http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/07/ ... -cure-all/

It doesn't seem to be a flawless infographic, but it's handy at a glance. I didn't realize omega 3's were so dicey. The size of the circle is its popularity, and the y axis indicates strength of evidence for the supplement.