Category: Food and Diet
Fermentation: Preserving Food and Reducing Waste in South Africa
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Explore the ancient art of fermentation as one of the best ways to preserve food, its numerous health benefits, and…
Personalised nutrition and chronic disease management: Nutrition plans for Managing Chronic Diseases like Diabetes and Heart Disease
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
This article discusses how personalised nutrition plans can be effective for managing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.…
Health benefits of fermented food & drink
Fermented food and drinks are alive! They are rich in bacteria that perform essential functions in our bodies, improving our…
5 Healthy Meat Substitutes
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
I love meat, and I eat meat – less and less in the past few years, but my body still…
How to Add Veggies to Breakfast
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Termed “the most important meal of the day”, breakfast is often underestimated. When we break the overnight fast with the…
How Long to Keep Spices and Herbs
As the season changes and we get excited about the warmer months’ foods and flavours, we often start cleaning out…
Honey as Medicine
Honey – one of the world’s oldest medicines – was known only as a sweetener for centuries. It was so…
Edible leaves
Visiting farms and chatting with food growers, I am always surprised and happy to learn about the wonder of vegetables.…
Eating to Save the Environment
The 5th of June is World Environment Day, and this year’s theme is biodiversity – “a concern that is both…
How to Keep Organic Veg Fresh for Longer
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
At Abundance Wholesome Foods, our vegetables are not treated with food additives or chemicals to extend the shelf life of…
Top 6 Summer Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet, Heart Disease
To celebrate the season and the farmers who grow our food, we wanted to share our favourite summer vegetables, herbs…
How to do a Plant-based Braai
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Whether it’s for health and wellbeing, caring for animals or the climate crisis, plant-based eating is gaining momentum and popping…
Plant-based Diet: Foods to Consider
Last year November I committed to an experiment of going vegetarian, as part of Vegan month. It did not go…
The Truth About Added Sugar
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
There is natural sugar, then there is added sugar. Natural sugar is found in foods like fruits, vegetables and dairy…
Pantry Essentials for Summer
As we spring clean our bodies and homes this season, let’s add the pantry to that list. Stuff that has…
Food and Mood
I love food. I have a lovely meal as a reward, I eat when I am sad, when a friend…
Embracing our Food Heritage
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
In South Africa, indigenous crops and traditional foods have been so downgraded that we have forgotten the tastes and even…
Benefits of Eating Local Food
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet
Local food is nca! And here’s why…The “local food” movement has been around in South Africa for almost 20 years…
5 Food Groups to Boost Heart Health
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
September is Heart Awareness Month in South Africa, an initiative to raise awareness about heart health and cardiovascular disease in…
The Rainbow Diet for Optimal Health
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
Mother Nature has gifted us fruits and vegetables in different colours, not by chance but for our optimal health. This…
5 Fab Herbs and How to Use Them
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
The importance of herbs in the diet is never emphasised enough.Herbs are not just pretty green sprinkles that make food…
How to Preserve Herbs
The history of herbs is vast, and the list of benefits of these plants is almost as long.It is reported…
Rewild Your Diet
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet
Rewilding literally means the undoing of domestication, and this became an attractive concept when I thought about how our food…
Reset Your Taste Buds to Love Healthy Food
“I am addicted to sugar,” I told friends the other day as I reached for the dessert menu. “We are…
Poor Diet Causes More Deaths Than Smoking
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
Poor diet is now cited as the leading cause of death from lifestyle diseases – which is more than those…
Why Meal Prepping is Worth Doing
Meal prepping can sound so trendy and cliché! However, it is exactly that: preparation.It is everything we have been told…
10 Yummy Ways to Cook Vegetables
When eating for health, you realise that vegetables form a huge part of a balanced diet, and there is simply…
Sugar: The Bittersweet Story
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
For the past 10 years, the debate about sugar has been raging locally and globally, and it’s no surprise when…
GMO: Is Your Favourite Food Killing You?
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet
It’s okay if you don’t know your GE from your GMOs – that’s what we’re here for! While genetic engineering…
10 Ways to Eat Organic on a Budget
Choosing to buy organic can seem out of reach for most people, but this is not always the case.If you…
African Cancer-Fighting Foods
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
Yesterday, the 4th of February, the world observed World Cancer Day. The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) says that…
Food Awareness – The Key to Your Health
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
Food awareness and understanding proper nutrition can be a tool of prevention for so many lifestyle diseases. It’s what we…
10 Water-rich Fruits and Veggies
It’s summertime and keeping hydrated is super important. With heatwaves scorching South Africa, it’s easy to lose body fluids which…
5 Tips to Avoid Food Wastage
The holidays can so often lead to over-buying, over-eating and, sadly, food wastage. But it’s not just the festive season…
5 Tips to Avoid Overeating This Festive Season
Sometimes it feels like the festive season was created just to make you overeat, right? We know it’s hard to…
Mindful Eating for Better Health
Articles, Food and Diet, Mindfulness
As we approach the holiday season, eating habits can get messy, and this can quickly lead to weight gain.We’ve been…
How Healthy is Your 7 Colours Meal?
Articles, Diabetes, Food and Diet
With so much variety and range of flavours, who doesn’t love a traditional “7 colours” meal to wrap up the…
Plant-based Diets You Should Know
Articles, Food and Diet, Heart Disease, Lifestyle Diseases
At Abundance Wholesome Foods we’re all for plant-based diets and in support of anyone whose diet consists predominantly or wholly…
Is Vegan The Diet For You?
Articles, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases
As the world commemorates World Vegan Day on 1 November, we did some research to try and understand exactly what…
How PGS Makes Sure Your Food is Grown Organically
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet, Lifestyle Diseases, Obesity
This year, South Africa has extended National Nutrition Week to include the National Obesity Week, making the 9th – 19th…
Food Security Affects Everyone – Even You
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
In simple terms, food security means that every citizen should have enough food to live an active and healthy life.…
Why We Need To Decolonise Our Diet
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Decolonising our diets is not about making a political statement, it’s about getting back to the basics of what food…
Indigenous Foods That Are Excellent For Health
Articles, Diabetes, Digestive Disorders, Food and Diet, Heart Disease, Lifestyle Diseases
South Africa has a diverse range of indigenous food crops, which are a not only a rich source of nutrition…
Over 200 South Africans Die Every Day Due to Heart Health
Articles, Food and Diet, Heart Disease, Lifestyle Diseases
September is Heart Awareness Month, and there’s a reason why heart health is such a big deal in our country.…
Get More From Your Produce – Buy Seasonal!
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
We love the advice to 1) Eat colourfully 2) Eat seasonally and 3) Eat locally! Today we’re tackling the seasonal…
Organic Food – What’s the Big Fuss?
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
You’ve heard the term and seen the labels in stores, but what is the organic movement all about and why…
What does “Food Medicine” mean?
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” but what did he mean by that?