nice. That's one approach to making it palatable. I have some Indian spices in the kitchen. This will be fun to try on a chilly day.
It's really interesting that this study actually directly measured blood cartenoid levels. When I was writing my thesis, I encountered another study from Sweden that measured blood dietary antioxidant levels there. Guess what the source of major dietary antioxidants in the bloodstream of Swedes was found to be? Coffee! The assay used was TBARS.
Interestingly there is a company in Taiwan making a propietary blend of botanical extracts to prevent prostate issues in older men. It's listed on the stock market. Prostate cancer is a major inconvenience and worse, often fatal for many men. But the Indian approach to pureeing vegetables with some fat might be an equivalent approach, less expensive, and better flavored ;-)
LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago
Yah, well. Regarding spinach, palak paneer and indian spices, one doesn't really need to overdo it. Actually I discovered palak paneer about a decade ago as ready made meal in some supermarket. As ready made meal it wasn't that great, but still interesting. Got the idea that spinach doesn't need to be bland, and looked into that palak paneer thing.
Experimented with ready made deep-frozen spinach like it is commonly available, put some pieces of goat cheese into it, sprinkled some curry powder into it, and it was actually better! :-) Of course that also depends on ones tastes and the large variety of curry powders.
Anyway, that's just one uncomplicated way to make it less bland, imo. And one can combine this with all sorts of stuff, be it crunchy sweet potatoes, fish fingers, whatever. Doesn't have to be rice at all.
DaveZale•2mo ago
gotcha. Keep it simple. Sure, I have curry powder. The goat cheese may prompt a trip to the farmer's market. Or I'll get some online. But fresh and local are usually best.
LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago
Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palak_paneer :-)
DaveZale•2mo ago
It's really interesting that this study actually directly measured blood cartenoid levels. When I was writing my thesis, I encountered another study from Sweden that measured blood dietary antioxidant levels there. Guess what the source of major dietary antioxidants in the bloodstream of Swedes was found to be? Coffee! The assay used was TBARS.
Interestingly there is a company in Taiwan making a propietary blend of botanical extracts to prevent prostate issues in older men. It's listed on the stock market. Prostate cancer is a major inconvenience and worse, often fatal for many men. But the Indian approach to pureeing vegetables with some fat might be an equivalent approach, less expensive, and better flavored ;-)
LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago
Experimented with ready made deep-frozen spinach like it is commonly available, put some pieces of goat cheese into it, sprinkled some curry powder into it, and it was actually better! :-) Of course that also depends on ones tastes and the large variety of curry powders.
Anyway, that's just one uncomplicated way to make it less bland, imo. And one can combine this with all sorts of stuff, be it crunchy sweet potatoes, fish fingers, whatever. Doesn't have to be rice at all.
DaveZale•2mo ago