Sea Food

Sea Food Seafood refers to any sea animal or plant that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafoods include seawater animals, such as fish and shellfish (including molluscs and crustaceans).By extension, in North America although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water and all edible aquatic animals are collectively referred to as seafood, however in some countries such as New Zealand they are categorized as "Game".Edible seaweeds are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia. See the category of sea vegetables.The harvesting of wild seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture,...

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Baby Food

Baby food is any food, other than breastmilk or infant formula, that is made specifically for infants, roughly between the ages of four months to two years. The food comes in multiple varieties and tastes, can be produced by many manufacturers, or may be table food that the rest of the family is eating, mashed up. Because infants lack teeth, many different baby foods are designed for ease of eating; they are either a soft, liquidy paste or an easily chewed food. Nutrition Babies typically move to consuming baby food once nursing or formula is not sufficient for the child's appetite. Babies do not need to have teeth to transition to eating solid foods. Teeth, however, normally do begin to show up at this age. Care should be taken with certain...

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Health food

The term Health Food is generally used to describe foods that are considered to be beneficial to health. However, the term is not precisely defined by national regulatory agencies such as the USDA or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Health foods are sold in health food stores or in the health/organic sections of supermarkets.There are a wide variety of diet regimes which are claimed to have an effect on health. The term "health food" can be applied to carnivorous, vegetarian, macrobiotic, vegan, raw (uncooked) and fruitarian diets, amongst others. A balanced diet comprising of diverse and healthy foods is key to promoting good health. After all, we are what we eat - Research continues to prove that eating healthy food promotes good health...

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