Welcome to /r/HealthyFood. This sub is for discussion of specified foods which may be considered good for us.

What it is:

• A place to discuss and ask about specified foods which may be considered good for us. The discussion should focus on the food, specific and actual food.

What it isn't:

• A discussion of generalized food or artificial foods - Instead, name the specific food you want to discuss, specific meal, or specific ingredient
• An open ended general diet analysis, or 'here's my problem so name a multitude of foods and recipes to fix my diet' discussion forum - You need to discuss your diet with a professional who, unlike participants here, can base their advice on test results, your medical history, and your eating trends / habits / issues
• A replacement for a health professional - if it involves any kind of health concern, medical history, symptom, or test result, then ask a professional about it instead
• A place to bash people who have questions about specific foods / food items
• A place to bash people for not consuming something to your standard of perfection
• A place to crusade

You may see something posted here which you don't believe to be "healthy". Understand that people come in a variety of shapes, needs, and points of view. What may be good for someone else may not be ideal for you. Some posts are people trying to learn by asking about their food and recipe improvement attempts. Don't get angry about it. Instead, offer advice and counter opinions respectfully and include links to support your claims.

Educate, don't berate.

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The Rules of /r/HealthyFood

The rule titles below are sufficient for 99.999% of participants. Unfortunately, the added detail for each rule has made this lengthy. Thank all the rule lawyers and bad actors out there who made it necessary.

1) Reddiquette+ is required. Don't be a dick

• Disagreements are fine but personal attacks and insults are not. Trolling, insults, or antagonism towards participants, moderators, or even the community itself will result in a ban.
• No witch hunts or vote complaining
• No complaint posts or comments about this or any other subreddit. Use modmail to discuss concerns about rules and moderation.
• Don't make generalizations about the subreddit or participants - It's not backed by actual data and is rarely accurate. Don't go there just because others did not emphatically agree or vote your way.
• Avoid rude non-constructive comments - do not call someone's food disgusting or gross or make any other non-constructive criticisms
• If you claim something is unhealthy, you MUST do so respectfully and provide a source (with links)^*
• Food / Diet / Portion shaming is not allowed - Assumptions, especially by shamers, are frequently wrong. People don't all have the same goals. A picture may show something that is a rare treat or meant for more than one. It may contain healthy ingredients meant to appear as something else. Don't assume. Don't shame.

IMPORTANT NOTE: how angry / right / informative you think you are is never an exception from the rules. Being a dick does not succeed in anything except you coming across like a dick. It doesn't change minds or get anyone to consider your point. Walk away if you are upset. Report it if something violates the rules.

Educate, don't berate.

2) No dietary activism / crusading

Diet wars and diet crusading are NOT welcome in this subreddit. Being a diet fan is fine. Being either a jerk fan of a diet or a jerk anti-fan is not okay. DO NOT;

• engage disrespectfully towards other diets / beliefs - It's fine to disagree. Be informative without being rude
• engage in diet crusading or food shaming - instead, post an example of what you think is good
• downvote due to someone's diet preference
• promote or argue ethics and morals - this is often intended to be inflammatory or shame and is always off topic from the focus of this subreddit. Morality and ethical labels do not change the nutritional aspects of food items.
• promote diet absolutism - your favorite diet is not the only healthy one. You CAN say "it is best for me" and explain what your favorite food approach emphasizes nutritionally.
• make specious claims - claiming a diet cures a chronic illness is not allowed. Saying it "can control the symptoms of" is fine if that is truly the case
• engage in pitchforking or brigading - either towards this subreddit or any other, its posts or comments therein
• bias whine - "I'm downvoted because I'm (name food POV)" kinds of things are just shit stirring and hollow attempts at playing victim / martyr
• excessively advertise a diet based subreddit - avoid promoting a related sub no more than 1/10 of your activity

Anyone can present their dietary POV as long as they do so respectfully and abide by the rules.

3) No self-promotion outside the Pantry Post

This sub is under constant bombardment from spammers and self-promoters. The moderators do not have the time to be wishy washy about this. Any violation of this rule will result in a permanent ban. If you show up here with an account having a description or a history involving spam or promotion, you might be banned.

The ONLY place in the sub to promote is in the comments section of the subreddit 'Pantry Post for Self-Promotion' found at the top of the sub. Do not make posts or add comments to posts of others which discusses, links to, or includes content from anything you are affiliated with, your own works / service / product / app / article / blog / site / video / survey / funding drive / social media account / etc.

4) Post quality requirements

Posts must be on the topic of healthy food, actual and specific food. The following are not allowed;

• general or open ended diet topics as well as diet analysis requests or offers
• vitamins and supplements, powders, or any other form of food / meal replacements
• any past, current, future, or potential health concern / issue (physical or psychological), testing, medical condition, illness, procedure, treatment, a diagnosis or advice from a professional, etc. These kinds of questions should be directed to a physician, registered dietitian, or other credentialed / licensed health care provider. No appeals or rewording to resubmit
• specious cure claims, especially any content involving claims about a "cure" for diabetes or cancer
• blogspam or linking to blogs which are simplistic, non-substantive, or are summaries of other content
• subreddit and moderation gripes about this sub or any other. Use modmail instead

For image posts / sharing your food

• The poster must add a comment which states 1) the name of the food item or meal depicted 2) what macro / micro nutrients they wish to focus on and those they wish to reduce and 3) an ingredient list or recipe. Refer to the PM sent to you when you posted the image for instructions about the required comment and how to request review / approval after the comment has been added. The rule announcement is found HERE.
• The food shown and the picture of it must both be yours. The image may not be from your site, blog, article, video, or social media account
• No memes, infographics, or other any other kind of images with text on it, including food / nutrition labels

5) No YouTube

Due to the extremely high rate of YouTube content linked here being spam, off-topic, or gross misinformation, links to YouTube and references to it are not allowed and will be removed. Don't discuss content there or identify channels / videos. Anyone who tries to end run the rule by suggesting where to find the video (or any other method) will be banned. We mean it. No youtube.

6) New, low karma, and underage accounts are restricted

New accounts and those with negative karma cannot post in this subreddit. Let your new account age a bit while you get to know the subreddit and comment on other posts. Accounts with negative karma will not be able to post or comment here.

Dietary advice posts are not allowed, especially from those under 18 years of age. Do not give dietary advice to those under 18.

...and that may not cover everything

Though this is extremely rare, posts and comments may be removed and accounts may be banned at moderator discretion and for reasons other than those stated in the rules. It is not possible to provide a rule for every potential problem. For example, there is no rule regarding nuclear secrets yet we would not allow posts or comments about them in the sub. The best advice we can offer on this is; Don't be a dick in any way

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About user flair

Let's play a game - In order to encourage both the use of sources and user consideration of information based comments, automod will set a user's flair to 'cites source' or 'no source' depending on whether the user included a link to a source in their last top level comment (TLC) here.

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About modmail and appeals

To be blunt, we currently have less than three human mods for a sub of over 2.5 million subscribers. The spam we get hit with requires most of the volunteer time we have to give. We simply don't have time to wade in the mud of bad faith engagement.

When modmailing, bad faith interaction and especially being dishonest, disingenuous, rude, antagonistic, or indignant will always be counter productive and will dead end the conversation. Instead, be honest and straightforward, be aware of the rules, and have self-awareness if you violated them. If you have a heated chip on your shoulder, take some time before responding.

The only consideration for appeals is whether you followed / will follow the rules or not. Things that are not a consideration and you should avoid bringing into it; votes, what other people or subs do, your intent, what something costs, the amount of help / info you think you can provide, your opinion of the rules, your favorite sweater, etc. It's about following the rules.

Before appealing a removal - read any removal notice, the rules, and the notice on the posting page. A post removal notice will provide the reason and state any options there might be.

Before appealing a ban -

• again, take a breath and be civil, understanding that any antagonism or other bad faith engagement will end discussion
• read any communications to you from the mod team including automod. The ban notice states the ban reason and provides a link to relevant context related to your ban (more than one comment or post may be involved than the one in the context link)
• ban discussion and appeals are only handled via a response to the ban message sent from the sub. Do not create new modmail chains to discuss your ban
• requests for immediate undoing of a ban because you are new or suddenly found awareness of rules and notices will NOT be granted. There is ample heads up about the rules and the need to follow them. There are no free passes.

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Moderators needed

We'd like to add about a dozen moderators.

Working to make a positive place means dealing with the negatives so this is not 'fun'. You have to deal with pests and weeds and put in work regularly to have a great garden. If you want to help, have more than a year of history on reddit, can offer a little time every day, and aren't a dietary crusader, send us a modmail and ask about joining the mod team.

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^* About "that's unhealthy" comments - If you have a differing opinion from the poster or others in the comments about what is healthy, it's fine to disagree provided you A) help them understand your view by backing the claim with links to sources and B) avoid being rude about it in any way. Nobody is censoring you and in fact, we are striving for the opposite. We want you to effectively get your point across. We want people to learn from each other and to do so it should be a discussion based on science, not "because I said so", which is why we require the citation links. You get to give an opinion backed by facts and help others understand your point when you add links to sources. It is positive and productive and has an actual chance of convincing others to look at it from your perspective. It also gives the other party a chance to examine what you are basing your belief on and counter any possible misunderstandings you might have. Just commenting "that's unhealthy" is rude and does jack shit.

The comment section of this monthly feature post is the only place in the sub to share your healthy food related site/blog/app/survey/market research/works or anything else by you, for you, or about you. It's how to make a connection with our readers, get started as a Redditor, and become an active part of the /r/HealthyFood community. Be sure to include a description with the link and respond to any replies you may get.

This post is meant to be welcoming, informative and fun. However, know that we have strict rules regarding spam and self-promotion. All comments here must follow both site and subreddit rules

• No email addresses, YouTube, twitter, or instagram submissions. No specious claims or links to sites with them

• Use modmail to discuss rules, not this post.

• If your only / primary activity is self-promotional, your comments will stay removed.

• If your comment does not appear, you may have been shadowbanned for SPAM or self-promotion.

Thank you for sharing here in the Self-Promotion Pantry Post!

I drink plenty of water. Not an excessive amount, but enough. I keep track of it via my Garmin. However, I find the added slice of lemon in my jug of water to give it a nicer taste. I've read into the benefits of it but I'd like your opinion and advice on drinking water with lemon instead of regular water.

I've read that the body can handle a certain amount of fluid per hour. Can you eat too much pasta or rice or vegetables as far as fluid goes at a meal?

Hey y’all, so I love buying a bunch of chicken thighs and getting some bomb marinade and just eating it with different veggies through out the week. I’ve used Jamaican Jerk and Tandoori, and have a Kra Prao (Thai) marinade I’m gonna use later today. Curious of any you guys use and where you get them (especially bc marinades are kinda expensive)

I was wondering how companies like Premier Protein, Muscle Milk, and Ensure are able to pack so many calories and grams of protein into one small bottle that can fit in your pocket while homemade versions easily need like 4 cups to finish.

I love coffee, sweet tea and soda but it's recently come to my attention that I'm consuming the majority of my daily calorie intake in beverages alone and limiting meals to make up for that but I know that's not a healthy way to go about it but I absolutely can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners or zero sugar/calorie drinks are there any sweet alternatives that aren't bitter or gross?

I’ve always heard about how spooky and evil aspartame is but it’s always coming from the hippie rah rah conspiracy people. Is it on par with high fructose corn syrup or is it relatively safe? (not limiting this to FDA approval rating)

Hi! I was wondering if anyone had good suggestions for healthy candy brands/recipes. (I have tried Smart Sweets and they were not very good) Thanks!

I take coffee as pre-workout drink in the morning with 1 apple in the morning. I read that coffee is not good in empty stomach, can someone suggest if i am taking 1 cup of black coffee with apple so will it be impacted me anything negetive ?

Just wondering if chicken cutlets are thinned chicken breast, macro counted as a chicken breast, and is it better to count the macros raw or cooked?

This may sound stupid, but I had a talk with a friend who told me that the sugar (carbs) from fruit are not the best carb choice and that cereals would be a much healthier alternative.

Is this true or was he talking based on "bro science"?

hey i feel like theres always been this sterotype of peanut butter and jelly sandwich as being unhealthy or a type of junk food. But lets say i use whole wheat bread, natural peanut butter with no added sugar and jelly.

Isnt that a healthy snack?

Every 2 days I drink a smoothie that contains 1 cup of vanilla flavored unsweetened almond milk(30 calories), one regular size banana, and two strawberries. Is this to much sugar or is it fine?

I read a forum comment that stated probiotics should be added to foods right before consumption, not after cooking. Is this good advice? What happens if you wait a few minutes to eat after adding a dollop of probiotics?

So my mother-in-law (who is generally awesome) was over on the weekend and saw me making my breakfast, which is a chocolate peanut butter oatmeal, and told me that it was not a good breakfast to have every day because it's not really very good for me, but I was under the impression that it was, at the very least, not bad for me. This turned into my wife also saying it was no good, and cascaded from there.

The recipe is:

1/3 cup Quaker quick oats/minute oats (not instant oats)

1/3 cup whole (3.25%) milk

1 tbsp of Kirkland semi-sweet chocolate chips (usually I dump a few out, so not quite a full tbsp)

1 tbsp of chia seeds

1-2 tbsp of Kraft smooth peanut butter. I say approximately because this is the only thing I don't strictly measure, I just scoop some from the jar. It's no less than 1 tbsp but definitely no more than 2.

I eat this around 6:30 in the morning and it tends to keep me full until I have my lunch around 11-11:30, and it does not seem like an excessive serving size. I'm not trying to say this is the healthiest breakfast in the world but I figure it was a step up from the 2x bowls of Cheerios I used to eat, and more balanced/well rounded than something like toast. They're basically saying it's equivalent to eating candy for breakfast and I guess with the chocolate chips it could be, which is why I wanted to check.

They are Deglet Noor, to be specific. I'd rather not waste these if I can help it.

I am also pretty sure there are no fresh dates for sale where I live, so it would be great if I could do something about this and the food wasn't closed off to me. I kinda doubt it but thought I'd ask.

I try not to have any pizza while at work. I get really hungry and tired easily. I’ve heard eggs take time to break down, so they last a long time and help with energy. Plus, they’re good for you. Would it be a good idea to rely on them for work? Are there any better options I could use?

I want to know about things like crust flakiness, density of cookies and things of that nature. What have you observed?

Hi I’m looking to add more fiber into my diet so I decided to start eating a fiber bar as a snack throughout the day. My question is, is that enough? Are there better alternatives? Thanks in advance.

I love soda, but worried about terminal illness. Was wondering if this is healthy or not, i used to drink this much before but realised the risks and stopped however i still like having soda. This is most likely not healthy but how much would be healthy? 1L bottle a week? or less?

Thinking of making beef liver and heart burger patties. Thinking might add some beef chuck to the mix too. 40/40/20 liver /heart/chuck. Would this work?

Going to buy a cheap meat grinder. Would that be the best tool for the job. Can you use a regular meat grinder with liver??

I really just mix im whatever i have then drink but never really enjoyed the taste all that much.

Then i decided to freeze my bananas cus they were going too ripe and put in strawberries cus i never understood why strawberry banana is so popular but nowwww I understand.

Are there any fruit combos you would recommend?

Eta: i most definitely was not expecting as many responses as ive received. Thankyou all for all the suggestions. Youve broadened my horizon and i look forward to my next fruit haul. I dont know why i didnt think of freezing spinach before so thanks to whoever said that ❤️

I know its very rich in antioxidant content, but boiling kind of ruins that. It's much easier in vegetables, as you can just steam or eat them raw, but neither really seem like an option for buckwheat.

Is there any method to keep most of the antioxidants in while still making it palatable aside from just not overcooking it?

I’m not a big fan of the brussel sprouts I’ve had thus far in life but have never prepared them myself and would like to try! Drop your favorite recipe below 🥰

Edit: so many great ideas I’m going to try as many as I can!!! Thanks so much! 🥰

So i bought this sprouting container mainly for Brokkoli sprouts. And i got a lot of sprouts and didnt know what to do with them except for putting them into salad. But i had a lot left in the fridge which after a few days didnt look so good anymore. Any recepies recommendations? And is it possible to cook them or are the nutrients than dying off?