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Galaxy Foods Vegan Faux Cheese Slices

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I usually couldn’t care less about vegan faux cheese, but Galaxy Nutrition Foods has done something different.  The company is fortifying their rice and soy based vegan faux cheese slices with calcium.    Each slice contains 20% of the DV for calcium.    The Rice Vegan cheese is a particularly good deal nutritionally.  1 slice only has forty calories and only has 2 grams of fat.     It comes in a variety of flavors.    It is a nice option in addition to other calcium fortified foods like orange juice and the various plant based faux milks for those who don’t like calcium pills.

” – than a quart of milk”

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picture of cooked quinoa

The content below was published a little over 2 years ago on 2010 March 08.

Today, I ran across the same factual error, with the exact same phrase, on a new cookbook author’s site. I Googled on “more calcium than a quart of milk” and found at least 5 other sites making this error. All these years later.

The USDA Nutrition Database is the standard for nutrition information. Almost all of the nutrition software out there, on and offline uses it. Now, in 2012, they have searches that can be bookmarked. Here you go, in case you are curious to see for yourself that quinoa does not have more calcium than a quart of milk:

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6430

It is just AMAZING that one person posting a factual error on the web, can spread that error for over 5 years and even have it published in hard copy books.

At least five years ago a cookbook author wrote on her web site that one cup of cooked quinoa has as much calcium as one quart of cow’s milk.

Well, quinoa has about 32 mg per cooked cup. Cows milk has about 300 mg per cup. My guess is that somebody jumbled a zero somewhere.

That website, which shall remain nameless ( I’m not out to bust on anyone ) is still up, uncorrected, years later. I have heard people claim to have contacted this author with information about her mistake.

Today, years later, I was reading a cookbook I’ve been into for the last month and the author wrote the exact same mistake. Somebody made a mistake somewhere and cookbook authors have been perpetuating this misinformation down the line.

Bottom line: do not not trust cookbook authors for nutrition information.

BTW, if you want calcium without the digestive discomfort of lactose intolerance, allergies and sex organ cancers of cow’s milk you can find plenty of calcium in these foods

Choy Sum, The Next Crossover Hit

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It is amazing how crazy people are over kale. Yet, there is a very tasty, friendly and available vegetable that has over 3 times the usable calcium of kale and over twice the usable calcium of a cup of cow’s milk. It is called

Choy Sum

It cooks as quickly as spinach. It can be found in any Asian market. Googling on “choy sum seeds” quickly reveals a variety of sources for growing your own. Searching youtube on “choy sum” will find you a list of videos demonstrating how to cook it.

I think that with all of the interest I read about kale, eating it, making recipes for it, even growing it in pots for apartment dwellers  — that it is PAST the time that choy sum becomes the next “crossover hit” to make it into mainstream American markets.

There are a number of vegetables that are now in mainstream supermarkets that were not there when I was a kid. Most are not as deserving as choy sum, IMO. It is a nutritional powerhouse. Starting asking for it at your local farmer’s market, mainstream supermarkets, co-ops, Whole Foods, TJ’s, etc.

Remember, you read about it here first! :)