Real Turmat Freeze Dried Food: Top 3 Healthy Ingredients

Real Turmat produces top quality freeze dried meals and expedition food. One of our best selling camping meals, Real Turmat food is popular with all kinds of adventures - ranging from Trans Atlantic rowing to solo wild camps, they are a great choice for any outdoor activity.

Real turmat freeze dried meals are brilliantly healthy because the meals encompass incredibly nutritious ingredients. Here are the top three healthy ingredients in real turmat foods!

1. Wheat flour

Wheat flour is used in Real Turmat freeze dried meals such as Real Turmat Chicken Curry and Real Turmat Creamy Salmon with Pasta. Wheat flour offers a wide variety of benefits such as the following:

Provides Fiber Content

Wheat flour is high in fiber content. Dietary fiber is beneficial for preventing constipation, lowers blood cholesterol and can help you lose weight. Specifically, fiber helps your body by achieving the following:

• Fiber normalizes bowel movements. Dietary fiber increases the weight and size of your stool and softens it. A bulky stool is easier to pass, decreasing your chance of constipation. If you have loose, watery stools, fiber may help to solidify the stool because it absorbs water and adds bulk to stool.
• Fiber maintains bowel health. A high-fiber diet may lower your risk of developing hemorrhoids and small pouches in your colon (diverticular disease). Studies have also found that a high-fiber diet likely lowers the risk of colorectal cancer.
• Fiber lowers cholesterol levels. Soluble fiber found in beans, oats, flaxseed and oat bran may help lower total blood cholesterol levels by lowering low-density lipoprotein, or "bad," cholesterol levels. Studies also have shown that high-fiber foods may have other heart-health benefits, such as reducing blood pressure and inflammation.

Controls Blood Sugar

Fiber, particularly soluble fiber, can slow the absorption of sugar and help improve blood sugar levels. A healthy diet that includes insoluble fiber may also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

In addition, food that’s made with whole wheat flour has lower glycemic index (GI) level. Low-GI foods absorb more slowly to prevent blood sugar spikes and crashes. High-GI foods lead to rapid blood sugar spikes and subsequent crashes. If you’re looking to regulate your blood sugar after a meal, choose foods made with whole-wheat flour.

Vitamin Content

Whole-wheat flour provides a nutritional advantage over some flour types because of its vitamin content. Whole-wheat flour contains several vitamins, including folate, riboflavin and vitamins B-1, B-3 and B-5. Some types of white flour contain lower levels of these vitamins, since the processing involved in making white flour destroys the grains’ vitamin content -- for example, 1/2 cup of whole-wheat flour contains 3 milligrams of niacin, while an equivalent portion of white flour contains only 0.8 milligrams.

2. Curry

Curry is used in a wide variety of dishes originating in the Indian subcontinent. Curry encompasses a complex combination of spices or herbs, usually including ground turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger, and fresh or dried chilies. Curry is used in Real Turmat freeze dried meals such as Real Turmat Chicken Curry and Real Turmat Thai Red Curry because curry is tremendously beneficial to our body and can be medicinal. Here are the top 5 benefits of curry: 

Reduce inflammation

Turmeric in curry has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine to help treat inflammation, pain and rheumatoid arthritis. Studies also support the idea that turmeric’s active ingredient curcumin is a powerful antioxidant and lowers levels of two inflammation-causing enzymes.

Combat cancer

Curcumin could help to prevent or combat cancers such as prostate, breast, skin and colon cancer.

A small study on patients with precancerous changes in different organs seemed to show that curcumin could stop these changes from developing into cancer. There’s also evidence that certain cancers are less common in countries where people eat curcumin daily over long periods

Preventing and fighting Alzheimer’s disease

Curcumin has various powerful antioxidant properties which can help prevent and treat diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis.

Turmeric in curry also contains a chemical called turmerone, which could also help improve neurodegenerative conditions by stimulating stem cells to produce new brain cells.

Boosting your bones

Some studies have suggested turmeric could increase bone regrowth, connectivity and repair. More research is needed but it could prove to be great news for osteoporosis sufferers.

Improving digestion

Spices such as bay leaves and cumin in curry boost your stomach health by helping you relieve gas and promote stomach acid. More, the spices improve digestion. Efficient digestion means less wind and lots of good bacteria jostling around in your bowels and doing its job.

3. Potato

Potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself is a perennial in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Wild potato species, originating in modern-day Peru, can be found throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile.

Potato is used in Real Turmat freeze dried meal packs such as Real Turmat Cod in Creamy Curry Sauce and Expedition Foods Asian Noodles with Chicken and Mixed Vegetables.

The top three health benefits of potato are:

Antioxidants

Potatoes are rich in compounds like flavonoids, carotenoids and phenolic acids.

These compounds act as antioxidants in the body by neutralizing potentially harmful molecules known as free radicals. When free radicals accumulate, they can increase the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

For example, a test-tube study found that the antioxidants present in potatoes may suppress the growth of liver and colon cancer cells.

Studies have also found that colored potatoes like purple potatoes can have three to four times more antioxidants than white potatoes. This makes them potentially more effective at neutralizing free radicals.

However, most of this evidence is from test-tube studies. More human-based research is necessary before making any health recommendations.

Digestive Health

The resistant starch in potatoes may also improve digestive health.

When resistant starch reaches the large intestine, it becomes food for beneficial gut bacteria. These bacteria digest it and turn it into short-chain fatty acids.

Resistant starch from potatoes is mostly converted into the short-chain fatty acid butyrate — the preferred food source for gut bacteria.

Studies have shown that butyrate can reduce inflammation in the colon, strengthen the colon’s defenses and reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.

Moreover, butyrate may aid patients with inflammatory bowel disorders, such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis.

That said, most of the evidence surrounding butyrate is from test-tube or animal studies. More human-based research is necessary before making recommendations.

Improve Blood Sugar Control

Potatoes contain a special type of starch known as resistant starch.

This starch is not broken down and fully absorbed by the body. Instead, it reaches the large intestine where it becomes a source of nutrients for the beneficial bacteria in your gut.

Research has linked resistant starch to many health benefits, including reducing insulin resistance, which, in turn, improves blood sugar control.