MSG stands for mono sodium glucamate. This is a white powder, its a processed flavor enhancer that can be found in particularly Oriental food, restaurant food, any food to make it more “moorish” meaning you want to eat more of it because the MSG can be additive. It’s in most processed and restaurant foods .its in…
Category: NUTRITION
Facts relevant to food and its nutrtional value from an islamic scientific perspective
TOP 10 WORST FAKE FOODS -ARTIFICIAL COLOURS
I don’t know where I got this information from originally so please forgive me who ever wrote it.we are going to take this step by step because there is so much information it would be over whelming as one article so here goes. Do you read the labeling on the food products when you do…
RAMADHAN GET READY – SPIN CHOP FREEZE
I have had salad spinners before and given them away however I come to realize how useful they are for spinning washed herbs as well as salad leaves. Herbs can be washed spun and chop, then placed in sandwich bags and frozen to use later. It’s best to grown your own or buy the freshest…
RAMADHAN GET READY – ULCER SMOOTHIE
Ulcers can be a pain and off putting for those of us who want to fast. From my own experience of having sensitive stomach this smoothie got me through Ramadhan and beyond. I have a very delicate stomach, not in a bourgeois colonialised way, but in an I’m allergic to wheat kind of way, bit…
RAMADHAN GET READY – COFFEE DOWN AND OUT !
By Karimah bint dawoud, Islamic Nutritionist. Sha’aban is the month before Ramadan that we are in now.its a month of preparation for Ramadan blessing, its a month of sorting out, weeding stuff out mentally , spiritually and physically.It’s a time to look at habits that we have in excess like drinking 10 cups of coffee…
FOOD FACIST
Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain, Qualified Clinical Nutritionist. Let’s leave behind the Lego Land mentality and take things to a more holistic level in all things, not just food, but it’s food my specialty, so its food I’ll speak with. I notice my metaphors normally are with food or cuisine cooking. Anyways as part of…
Vinegar..Foods of Quran and Sunnah
VINEGAR….please pay attention, Vinegar is something that the prophet Muhammad salah la alaihi wa salem, used to eat and recommend ,Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) asked his family for condiment. They (the members of his household) said: We have nothing with us but vinegar. He asked for it,…
DANDELION SMOOTHIE (HERBAGE)
INVEST IN YOURSELF BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! Ooooh fighting your lower nature is not easy, appetite is part of our animal instinct, and it’s a survival instinct. I really want some fried greasy refine carb breakfast like a fried egg sandwich with olives and a coffee, however one of my body control techniques is “you…
FEAR OF FAT
By Karimah Bint Dawoud Qualified Clinical Nutritionist NCFE and Muslim Chaplin. When we think about fats, most people think all fats are bad. Health conscious people know that when we need to normalize our body size, we need to cut down on fatty food. However that’s only half of the story. This first of two…
GLOBESITY….the over consumption of processed food products
GLOBESITY….while we continue to over consume fast fried street food then we will be one of the SIGNS OF THE LAST DAYS…OBESE!!! IT’S NOT CUTE, IT’S FAT!!! “in truth no country has managed the transition to get rid of hunger without it shifting to obesity very rapidly”… Alhamdulilah praise the Creator, if there is…
Karimah's Cuisina Quranic Cooking 