Nutrient-dense foods list
Nutrient-dense foods include salmon, nuts, sweet potato, and quinoa. Adding these foods to the diet can provide health benefits. Learn more about the most nutrient-dense foods here.
March 15, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, foods-include, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, sweet-potato, the-diet, the-most, these-foods
Fortified against blindness
Sweet potato varieties developed to increase vitamin AThese are local community members evaluating the taste of sweet potato cultivars.
August 14, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: community-members, diet, evaluating-the-taste, eye health / blindness, increase-vitamin, on call diets, oncalldiets, potato-varieties, sweet-potato, taste
New study finds that orange sweet potato reduces diarrhea in children
A new study has found that orange sweet potato (OSP) reduced both the prevalence and duration of diarrhea in young children in Mozambique.
June 16, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: both-the-prevalence, diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, osp, sweet-potato, the-prevalence, young-children
Pre-cancerous breast cancer cells treated with a vitamin A derivative revert into non-cancerous cells
A derivative of vitamin A, known as retinoic acid, found abundantly in sweet potato and carrots, helps turn pre-cancer cells back to normal healthy breast cells, according to research published this month in the International Journal of Oncology.
April 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: breast-cells, helps-turn, international, known-as-retinoic, month, normal-healthy, nutrition, on call diets, research-published, retinoic-acid, sweet-potato