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Advantages of Raw Manuka Honey in Cooking

by

John Z Smith

Honey is a natural sweetener and many different varieties are available based on the hundreds of different flowers and plants frequented by bees. Raw manuka honey is made from the tea tree bush native to New Zealand and it has a dark color and robust flavor. Among the many advantages of raw manuka honey are culinary benefits. Everyone from novices to master chefs can use this sweet substance to prepare culinary delights.

Sweet Advantages of Raw Manuka Honey: Honey contains natural sugar, water, protein, vitamins, minerals, and pollen. Fructose and glucose are the main sugars and vitamins include B6, niacin, thiamin, riboflavin, and amino acids. Calcium, iron, copper, manganese, potassium, zinc, and sodium are several minerals that honey contains. Conductivity is an indirect measure of mineral content and the conductivity of manuka honey is approximately four times higher than that of typical flower honey.

Honey is free of fat and cholesterol but does contain beneficial antioxidants. The sweet stuff also has hydrogen peroxide that provides an antibiotic quality. Manuka contains methylglyoxal, an antibacterial substance created by converting a compound found in high concentration in tea tree flower nectar. A rating called UMF was developed to correspond with MG concentration.

Raw Manuka Honey Uses In the Kitchen: Honey has a high fructose level that makes it sweeter than table sugar. For that reason, it is the perfect sugar substitute. People add raw honey to beverages, use it to top their oatmeal, and even mix it with water. One tablespoon of this natural sweetener contains 64 calories and its sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream gradually.

When baking, raw honey can be substituted for sugar in most recipes. To do so, use between and cup of honey for every cup of sugar called for in the recipe. For each cup of sugar that is replaced, reduce liquid ingredients by cup. If baking soda is not an ingredient in the recipe, add teaspoon of it for every cup of sugar replaced. Honey causes baked goods to brown more easily so reduce cooking temperature by 25 degrees.

Other Raw Manuka Honey Cooking Tips: Honey never spoils and it can be stored in a kitchen cabinet. If it crystallizes, simply place the container in a bowl of hot water until the substance returns to its liquid state. It can then be used in recipes and to sweeten beverages. Though honey changes the flavor of baked goods, the change is subtle. Many people have no idea that this substitution was made and honey actually makes breads and cakes moister, which is a desirable quality.

There are many other ways to incorporate manuka honey into foods. Use it to make salad dressings, glazes, sauces, and dips. Prepare honey-dipped wings for a picnic or tailgating party and use honey to make granola bars for the kids. Honey can even be used to sweeten different types of homemade preserves. With so many potential manuka honey uses in the kitchen, it is time to get cooking!

Honeymark Products is an importer and distributor of Manuka Honey &

Raw Manuka Honey

products. All Honeymark products are made with all-natural ingredients & contain active Manuka Honey from New Zealand.

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By Alecia Barnes

I have had wonderful success with the Body by Vi Shakes, and have recommended them to everyone that I meet, who is serious about making a commitment to losing weight, and keeping it off.

On a weekly basis I am asked how I have been able to stick with the shakes, without getting bored of drinking them for 90 days.

I have just recently started my SECOND 90 day challenge, in my first challenge, I went from a size 26 to a 12, and now I’m in the home stretch for my goal size of 6, by May.

My secret to success? Protein weight loss recipes that I could make on my own, using the Body By Vi Shakes as the base.

Here are some of the yummiest protein shakes I have made to date – the variety has helped me to stay focused on my goal of fitting into that itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini by summer! (Hey, I didn’t say that I’d actually wear it out of the house! I’m kind of shy like that! hahaha)

So here they are – make them your own! If you put together a fabulous recipe, please comment, and I’ll include it on the site.

Enjoy!

Ultimate Protein Powder Weight Loss Shakes – Recipes

**NEW!**

BANANA PROTEIN NOG

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 cup skim milk

A one inch chunk of banana ( frozen is better)

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon sugar free vanilla extract

Place all ingredients in blender and process until smooth.

**NEW**

Apple Pie Frosty

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 apple, peeled, cored, and sliced

(or 1/2 C no-sugar-added applesauce)

1 packet NuStevia sweetener (Only USE NUSTEVIA, not the other Stevia products, find at GNC)

1/2 t cinnamon

1/4 t nutmeg

3/4 C water or Almond milk

(Use 3 -4 ice cubes, crush ice first using ice crush setting, no liquid)

**NEW**

“Peanut” Brittle Protein Shake

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

2 tbsp sugar-free instant butterscotch pudding mix (dry)

1 tbsp natural almond butter (smooth or chunky)

8 oz. water (or low-fat milk)

3-6 ice cubes or for a creamier smoothie, add 1/2 Frozen banana

Add all ingredients to blender, whip, and serve.

I like to use chunky almond butter

and add it last so that it it stays chunky (like peanut brittle)

but it tastes just as good with a smoother consistency.

***NEW***

Cinnamon Roll Protein Shake

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 tbsp sugar-free instant vanilla pudding

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp sugar free vanilla (or 1/4 tsp extract)

1 packet NuStevia powder sweetener

a few dashes butter flavor sprinkles or butter-flavor extract

8 oz. water (or low-fat milk)

3 ice cubes ( crush the ice before adding the rest of the ingredients)

Add all ingredients to blender, whip, and serve.

***NEW!***

Banana Split

8 oz. water or 4 oz. soy/almond/skim milk/4 oz. water

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1/2 frozen banana

1/4 cup chopped pineapple chunks (frozen)

2 frozen strawberries

***NEW***

Chocolate Caramel Protein Shake

8 oz. water, milk, almond milk or soy milk

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Chocolate Flavor Mix In

1 Tbs. SF (SUGAR FREE) Caramel Torani Syrup

3 Ice Cubes

Place water in the blender first, then powder, then additions. Blend on low then high till well blended.

Blueberry Banana Super Energy Shake

1 cup milk

1/2 cup frozen blueberries

1/2 frozen banana

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Banana Energy Charge Shape-up Mix In

Pina Colada Smoothie

1 cup milk

1/2 cup frozen pineapple

1/2 frozen banana

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Banana Energy Charge Shape-up Mix In

Peach Creamcicle

1 cup milk

1 cup mixed frozen fruit that includes peaches

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Peach Shape-up Health Flavor Mix-in

The peach is also delicious with a bit of fresh ginger blended in. Ginger is great for digestion and for speeding metabolism.

Strawberry Milkshake

1 cup milk

1 cup frozen strawberries

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Strawberry Shape-up Health Flavor Mix-in

Orange Creamcicle

1 cup milk

1/2 cup mixed frozen fruit

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Orange Shape-up Health Flavor Mix-in

Chocolate Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie

1 cup milk

1 frozen banana

1Tbs peanut butter

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Chocolate Shape-up Health Flavor Mix-in

Leave out the banana and just use ice cubes for a peanut butter cup smoothie! Yum!

Coffee Smoothie

1 cup milk

1Tbs instant coffee

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 Chocolate Shape-up Health Flavor Mix-in

Ice cubes

This smoothie can also be made with strong coffee frozen in ice cube trays. Use the frozen coffee cubes instead of ice.

There you have it! SOME of my Ultimate Smoothie Recipes!

To get your ultimate smoothie base, the Vi-Shape Shake mix, Check us out on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Visalus.Shakes.1

About the Author: Alecia Barnes is the owner of a successful internet marketing company in Sunny Southern California. With

Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge

, she has lost over 100 pounds. Find out more about her

weight loss success story

or go to http://body-by-vi-shakes.com

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