This shake is a true blend-and-go meal, ready in about 5 minutes with only two steps: throw the ingredients in the blender, and press the button. It’s the perfect go-to when you’re rushing out the door or can’t be bothered to cook, but still need that nutrition hit to kick-start your day. Flavorsome cinnamon and vanilla blend with creamy coconut and almond milk for a delicious and filling breakfast beverage. Coconut milk and almond milk are both lactose-free alternatives to dairy that are ...
Keto Meal Replacement Shake
Most meal replacement shakes are far from keto-friendly. They often rely on high-sugar fruits and carb-rich dairy products, which add enough carbs to slow your weight loss progress on keto. However, don't let these high-carb options fool you into thinking you can't have a meal replacement shake. In fact, you are only a few ingredient swaps away from cutting the carbs and making a delicious shake that'll keep you satisfied throughout the day. With our keto meal replacement shake recipe, ...
- June 18, 2020
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The Best Nuts for Keto: Low Carb Nuts, Seeds & What to Avoid
Nuts are known for their vitamin, mineral, fiber, and healthy fat content. What is often overlooked, however, is how many carbs they add to the diet. Since nuts are designed by nature to provide nourishment for a new plant, each one comes with some net carbs in the form of starches and sugars. This is why it is crucial to consider the carb counts of each nut before you incorporate them into your keto lifestyle. To give you a better idea of the best nuts for keto, let's take a look at carbs ...
- March 7, 2020
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The Keto and Collagen Guide: Everything You Need to Know About This Essential Protein
Although collagen is a protein, it does not have the same properties as other more commonly known proteins (e.g., whey, casein, meat, and fish). In fact, because of collagen's unique amino acid composition, it provides us with many benefits that we can see and feel. The positive effects of collagen even extend beyond what we can get from consuming fish, meat, whey, and casein proteins. Collagen is helpful in so many ways, especially on the keto diet. You can think of keto and collagen as a ...
- July 13, 2018
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A Comprehensive Guide To The Vegan Ketogenic Diet
Animal suffering, climate change, and health are three vitally important issues that can all be addressed with one solution — the vegan diet. At least, this is the idea that many health documentaries promote. The truth, however, is much more nuanced. Some may wonder if it is possible to follow a vegan keto diet. The short answer is, yes. From a health perspective, some people have much better health when they go low-carb and eat some animal products, while others feel much better on a ...
- October 13, 2017
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Dairy & Keto: Best, Worst, and Substitutes
Dairy products are born from raw whole milk — a water-based mixture with roughly 50% of its calories coming from fat, 20% from protein, and 30-35% as net carbs (mostly from lactose). Although this means a glass of milk is not good for keto, this doesn’t rule out every other dairy product from your low-carb lifestyle. In fact, the most popular keto ingredients are made from milk, but with one crucial difference: Most of the milk sugar is filtered out during production (and no other sugars are ...
- April 7, 2021
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Keto Nutella: Sugar-free Hazelnut Spread
Nutella is the perfect example of something that should be keto-friendly but is far from it. The label displays a simple chocolate hazelnut spread, but the ingredients list reveals a different story: Nutella’s primary ingredient is sugar. Although there are some sugar-free Nutella-like products, they rarely match what I can make at home. In fact, my homemade keto Nutella is so good that I had to share the recipe with everyone. With just five ingredients — most of which are commonplace in ...
- June 2, 2020
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What is Guar Gum? Definition, Benefits, Risks, & Uses
Guar gum is typically used as a natural food thickener and binding agent, similar to xanthan gum but with slightly different properties. Despite the stigma surrounding this common keto-friendly additive, guar gum is safe for most people and provides many health benefits when consumed in moderation. However, there are some caveats that are important to understand before you use it or replace it with a suitable substitute. To help clear up any guar gum confusion, we put together a ...
- June 9, 2019
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Top 10 Worst Keto Diet Advice We’ve Ever Heard
Nutrition is arguably one of the most complex topics known to man. The science behind it is so intricate that even the most experienced health/nutrition experts, medical professionals, and researchers can have widely differing beliefs on the same topic – beliefs that may all be right to some extent. The keto diet provides us with the perfect example of how so many people can interpret the same thing in completely different ways, leading to endless amounts of confusion and debate. Even a ...
- November 29, 2018
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Top 25 Keto Approved Foods to Accelerate Fat Loss
Losing weight can be a complicated process filled with questions. Will this food help me burn fat? Is that going to stall my progress? Fortunately, most of your weight loss questions will be answered when you eat the right foods. What exactly do I mean by the "right" foods? You may think they are the foods that make you burn a significant amount of belly fat. However, these foods don't exist. The only way to legitimately accelerate fat loss with food is to consume foods that help you ...
- July 30, 2018
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