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“You are what you eat” is a saying that is truer today than it was years ago!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT\u2019 APPLIES TO WOOD COOKING<\/h1>\n

Summary of You Are What you Eat<\/h4>\n

Healthy eating recipes, eat smart with Bark free cooking wood, cooking wood as a food ingredient is a clean eating basic. Responsibly sourced wood and only using heartwood Hardwoods avoids what woods are toxic to humans. Please remember you are what you eat when it comes to smoke flavor in food and your sourced wood.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all heard it, likely from our mothers.\u00a0 You are what you eat<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 If you truly understand the meaning of the statement, you know that we extract necessary nutrients from the foods we ingest to energize and stabilize our bodies.\u00a0 The nutritional content of what we eat determines the composition of our cell membranes, bone marrow, blood, and hormones.\u00a0 Every day we lose cells which is why the foods we consume are so vital to our body\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

Like Any Other Food Choice<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

If you\u2019ve been a follower of my writings then you are aware of the stress I put on recognizing the wood used to cook foods is just as important an ingredient as the cut of meat, choice of spices, quality of oil, etc.\u00a0 There has been a lot of focus on the origin of food and how important it is to source locally both as a means of supporting local business and to control what you\u2019re putting in your body.\u00a0 From our perspective, you want to know that the wood used for cooking is sourced close to the growing area.\u00a0\u00a0 This ensures that there is knowledge about how the wood is processed before it gets to you and it assures the freshest product.<\/p>\n

Minimal Processing<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Just as with the clean food concept which focuses on minimally processed foods and as direct from nature as possible, SmokinLicious<\/strong>\u00ae<\/strong> holds to the same approach.\u00a0 Sourcing wood from forest regions (direct from nature) that are in close proximity to our manufacturing facility, provides us with the unique advantage to process into the various cooking products the hardwoods harvested that meet our strict criteria: 100% bark-free (we don\u2019t allow any<\/strong> bark-on product to cross our threshold), 100% heartwood (no outer cores of the tree cross our threshold), harvested hardwood that is less than 6 months of age (ensures this is still a \u201cgreen\u201d product), chemical-free (no pesticide or growth enhancement techniques employed), and in raw state to allow us to process it into a suitable cooking wood size.<\/p>\n

The Risks
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If you love foods that are cooked with wood, then you should know a few specifics to keep you on the path to health and long life.<\/p>\n

Hardwoods only! <\/strong><\/h4>\n