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Have you actually thought of integrating your sustainable nature of composting your food wastes into your actual recipe? Although not all food remnants are going to complement your baking, bakers - there's still one ingredient that may actually be worth looking into: yes, banana peels!! Actually, to be more precise, its banana peel flour haha! Might sound funny, because sure enough, you might have probably heard of oat or almond flour, but a new study actually revealed that using banana peels along with traditional flour can actually provide you with an array of nutritional benefits. Compared to cookies without any banana additions, cookies that had 15% wheat flour substituted with banana peel flour had the highest level of moisture, which is quite a matter of concern for cookie consistency, and high levels of micronutrient content as well, along with a significant increase in antioxidant properties without changing the appearance or flavour of the cookie. Banana flour is mostly ma...

Ahhh the feeling - you've been cramming for a test or presentation all day, when suddenly you can't remember the simplest of things that happened during the day - like that one topic you prepared so well but can't remember now or just as simple as not remembering what you had for breakfast that morning. Why do we get so unraveled after hours of hard mental labour? We get so unraveled after hours of hard mental labour just because of a toxic buildup of glutamate, which is the brain's most abundant chemical signal. Of course, this comes up with a controversy too. It was thought by some researchers that doing difficult mental tasks used up more energy than easy tasks, exhausting the brain, just like how exercise does to the muscles. Some even suggested that drinking a sugary milkshake would make you more mentally sharper than an artificially sweetened one.  This research on the toxic buildup of glutamate is one of the most recent ones where researchers had looked at whethe...