True Health Culinary Medicine Series: Summer Produce

​Culinary Medicine: Summer Produce

​Eating for Longevity, One Plant at a Time

​Join us for a hands-on culinary medicine session where cooking meets nutrition science. You'll prepare three dishes built around ingredients that are packed with beneficial nutrients: crudité with chickpea dip, a white bean Mediterranean salad, and a strawberry basil smoothie.

​While we cook, we'll break down:

• ​Seasonal produce: how to choose it, why it matters for both flavor and nutrient density

• ​Plant bioactives: what bioactives actually do in the body, beyond the marketing language you've probably heard

• ​Beans and legumes: the mechanistic case for their role in longevity, from fiber and resistant starch to their effect on gut microbiota and metabolic markers

• ​Foods that fight inflammation: what is inflammation and what the impact of our dietary choices has on our bodies

​You'll leave with three recipes you can make again, and a working understanding of why they belong in a balanced diet.

​No advanced cooking experience required. Come hungry to learn and to eat!