Week 5

Colorful Kitchen

White. Sour Cream, Grits, Milk, half & half, rice, Cheese (swiss, jack, mozzarella), coconut milk, salt.

Yellow. Corn Tortillas, Polenta, Cheddar cheese, butter, tortilla chips, popcorn kernels, yellow onions, pasta, curry.

Red. Tomatoes, red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, shallots.

Green. Broccoli, green peppers, celery , tea.

Brown. Whole-grain bread, brown rice, eggs, cremini mushrooms.

Purple/Blue. Purple cabbage, blueberries.

Black. Pepper. Tea.

I’d say at the moment, there is a nice variety in my fridge. From these colors I conclude that there is a decent amount of folic acid, fiber, lycopene, antioxidants, anthocyanins, carotenes, glutathione, alpha-lipoic acid, etc..etc..

Plus a lot of tasty food.


Inert Gas of the Week

Nitrogen!

Nitrogen has an atomic number of 7 and an atomic mass of 14. Nitrogen makes up 78% of the atmosphere by volume.

Nitrogen compounds are found in foods, organic materials, fertilizers, poisons, and explosives. Nitrogen, as a gas is colorless and odorless. In liquid form, it is also colorless and odorless and is similar in appearance to water.

The nitrogen cycle is very important to life. Even though nitrogen is inert, bacteria in the soil use nitrogen by converting it into a usable form and it becomes fertilizer for plants. Animals then eat the plants where nitrogen has been changed into protein. Then more bacteria convert the waste nitrogen compounds into nitrogen gas.