List of Fat Burning Foods

Sweet potatoes are tuberous root vegetables, which belong to the morning glory plant family. Sweet potatoes are orange, tubular shaped vegetables that are grown under the soil and the outer skin can be slightly brown or purple. Some varieties have purple flesh. Sweet potatoes are native to Central...

Strawberries are soft heart-shape fruit that grow two to five centimetres in length. They are red with many green seeds that grow on the outside of the fruit. While strawberries are considered berry fruit, strawberries are actually part of the rose family, which is why the seeds are embedded in the...

Peaches are a round juicy fruit with yellow to red skin and a downy outer texture. The flesh can be yellow or white and each peach contains a large stone. They grow on large trees or up to five metres and are hand picked. Peaches originated in China and can be seen in pictures from as early as...

Mussels are oval shaped shellfish that are angular at one end and rounded at the other. Mussels grow in groups upon rocks and attach themselves with byssal threads. Mussels are a type of mollusc and they are the largest group of the bivalve mussels. Mussels are classified as a type of shellfish and...

Grapes are known as the 'Queen of the fruits'. They are small oval berry fruits that grow in clusters on woody vines and can be eaten raw or cooked or processed to make jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, molasses and grape seed oil. Red and green varieties of grapes are available and seedless varieties...

Onions have been eaten in dishes all over the world for thousands of years. Onions are a very versatile vegetable that can be eaten raw, cooked, fried, dried or roasted. Onions often form the first ingredient of multi-ingredient one-pot dishes. Italian, Indian and Mexican dishes are just a few...

Prawns are small crustacean shellfish that live in the ocean that are caught or farmed for eating. In the United States, the general term for prawns is 'shrimp' while in the United Kingdom the term 'prawn' is more often used, while shrimp are in fact a different species* that are smaller than...

Brussel Sprouts are members of the brassica (cabbage) family which makes them similar to cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli. They are leafy green vegetables about an inch big that look like miniature cabbages. Despite being given the name ‘Brussel’ after the city in Belgium, it is not commonly...

Broccoli is a member of the cabbage family that originated in continental Europe. We eat the head of the plant, which is the flower. Popular ways of cooking the vegetable is though boiling or streaming, but it is also delicious raw. Boiling the vegetable is not advisable, as it loses much of the...

The chilli pepper is the fruit of the plants that are similar to that of the Capsicum Pepper. The spicy heat of peppers is determined by the Scoville scale; the number of Scoville heat units that are given to a chilli indicates the amount of capsaicin that is present. Currently the world’s hottest...