Macro Hunt
Investigate what food actually gives you. Composition, not hype.
What's Actually In Lentils
Cheap, dull, and quietly one of the best things in the cupboard. What happens to a lentil in your gut is more interesting than anything on its label.
5 min readWhat's Actually In Whole Milk
Full-fat dairy is supposed to be the thing you cut. In the highest dairy consumers, the odds of abdominal obesity went the other way.
5 min readWhat's Actually In Canned Tuna
Tinned fish feels like the compromise option. Researchers compared the fatty acids in commercial tins against fresh fish to see what the processing really costs.
4 min readWhat's Actually In Lean Beef
Beef seems to have a threshold rather than a straight line. Below it the numbers look fine, above it they do not, and a genetic analysis tested whether that link is real.
5 min readWhat's Actually In Peanut Butter
A spoon out of the jar most nights, and a quiet worry that it is undoing something. Two real trials fed people peanut butter daily to find out.
5 min readWhat's Actually In White Rice
White rice is not one food. The grain length on the bag and how you cook it change the result enough to matter.
5 min readWhat's Actually In Oats
Granola, baked oatmeal and a bowl of porridge are the same grain treated three ways. Researchers measured all three, and the processing changes more than the taste.
5 min readWhat's Actually In Greek Yogurt
Yogurt against a protein powder, matched gram for gram, in adolescent athletes over sixteen weeks. A genuine head to head between real food and a tub.
4 min readWhat's Actually In Eggs
You want to know what an egg brings to your plate. Here's the honest version: protein and fat you can count on, plus a pile of "maybe" claims that get way ahead of the proof.
4 min readWhat's Actually In Chicken Breast
You keep hearing chicken breast is the protein king. Here's the honest version of what I can back up, and where the science just runs thin.
3 min readWhat's Actually In Salmon
You've heard salmon is a muscle food. Here's the honest version of what that omega-3 fat can and can't do, told straight, no hype.
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