Bran, rich nutrient

Hearing the word bran, some people immediately associate with the ingredients for livestock feed. Bran is a byproduct of milling or comminuting process grains into rice. In this process occurs separation of rice endosperm (which we used to eat the rice) with bran, which is enveloping endosperm layer. Various studies have shown, rice bran has [...]

Risk of eating raw vegetable

Viewed from nutrition, raw vegetable do contain more nutrients than cooked vegetable. The risk of contaminated raw vegetable from pesticides or harmful bacteria is very high. According Prof.Dr.Ir. Made Astawan, food technologists and nutrition of IPB in various nutrition content of his book Food, pesticide residues are often still left in the vegetables until several [...]