Friday, November 20, 2020

so, i put just a teaspoon of yellow mustard in and you can notice it and i think i do want it. is there any nutritional value, though?

so, i looked up the ingredients of mustard, and i had no idea - turmeric, paprika...

am i better off with my own spice mix, given that i'm using it in a dressing like this? what if i get mustard powder, tumeric powder & paprika powder, instead? i'm getting enough vinegar from the frank's, surely....and i get the original, so it's a high cayenne content & full of carotenoids, too.

surely, the nutritional value of the mustard ingredients would be higher in dry powder, right?

.....and, it turns out that mustard powder is a pretty potent source of some b & some minerals, as is turmeric, which also has the funny curcumin, which we can't absorb, but why not try? & paprika is great for the obscure carotenoids....

what am i getting from prepared mustard? the self site says basically nothing.

so, that sounds like a good idea - let's put the spices in fresh, instead of the prepared mustard. then...

- fortified vanilla soy 
- frank's red hot (or dried cayenne pepper + vinegar?)
- fortified probiotic yogurt
- high retinol cheddar cheese
- i'm currently using garlic salt, but will move to celery salt when i run out
- ground pepper
- nutritional yeast 
- sunflower & hemp seeds
- chopped fresh lime
- just a spoonful of pasta water

+ chopped garlic, anchovies, some kind of olives, soy bacon bits, fresh oregano, mustard powder, paprika powder, turmeric & maybe other spices

that's on top of

- fortified pasta
- carrots
- beets
- red peppers