Tortilla

food category, chip brands like Doritos are known for their festive, decadent flavors but are loaded with calories. The calorie count in a bag of white corn tortilla chips is 1,041 according to the USDA. Doritos are flavored tortilla chips that are covered in a powder seasoning. One ounce of Doritos® JACKED™ Ranch Dipped Hot Wings Flavored Tortilla chips is 130 calories. According to Christian Nordqvist's article in Medical News Today, a calorie is a unit of energy, and the amount of calories a…

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle is a novel about two couples, one American and the other Mexican, from opposite ends of the financial spectrum whose lives intermittently intersect for the worse. The novel portrays a particularly tragic tale of coexistence between a wealthy couple living in Arroyo Blanco Estates, where the general concern is building a wall “to keep out those very gangbangers, taggers and carjackers they’d come here to escape.”(39) Whereas Candido and America Rincon are an…

acquired a role of prey. One of the objects mentioned in the destruction scene of these creatures was a tortilla griddle. This is an important sentence because it establishes the importance the tortilla plays in Mayan culture. Not only was it a basic staple, but also it’s of historical importance. By having this item mentioned, even if it only appeared once, the idea that the Mayan saw the tortilla as an ancient part of their culture which can be traced back to the creation of the world. Which…

I. Attention-getter: “Imagine this, you and your friend are walking down the brick streets of downtown Nacogdoches in the spring. A slight breeze comes through, and you smell a hint of Mexican culture. You take a deep breath in and begin to follow your nose, which leads you to a small local restaurant. You walk in and are submerged in different scents. You and your friend decide to take a seat and sit for a spell. As your eyes graze over the menu, you munch on some chips and salsa. You order…

Form There is no single cause for a canker sore forming in your mouth, but there are things that are known to trigger them from showing up. A common problem is suffering some sort of injury inside your mouth. This could be from having a sharp tortilla chip rub against the soft tissue of your mouth, which will start out small but grow to…

of GMOs by Charles Xu , Charles states” in the fall of 2000. a California woman named Grace Booth went into anaphylactic shock after eating three corn tacos; after ruling out all other food allergies, she became suspicious about the corn in the tortillas. Earlier that year, the consumer group Genetically Engineered Food Alert Found that some Taco Bell shells, along with other corn products, contain a pest-repelling protein called…

but there was challenges that came with doing it. Since the price of corn was low it made it hard for him to make money to provide for his family. If he wanted to make enough money to support his family he had to charge more for his corn than his tortillas because he needed a good surplus to keep selling in his market. This is a hard thing to do, because since Beto is not a business man, he cant really calculate his own labor to make enough money. I found it touching…

The definition of gender is the state of being male or female, nowhere in that definition does is state that one gender has power over the other. So why do we think that way and why is there such a thing as gender “roles”? We as humans have a habit of treating females as lower beings than males, but they are really equal. Many women face this problem everyday, especially women of ethnicity. They face this problem more than others, they sometimes get treated like servants and are stripped of…

Sausage Pepper Fettuccini Skillet Ingredients: 1 pound of fettuccine pasta 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 garlic clove (Minced) 1 onion (Chopped) 5 smoked sausages (Sliced to 4 pieces) 1 yellow pepper (Deseeded and chopped) 1 red pepper (Deseeded and chopped) 1 teaspoon parsley ½ cup white wine ½ cup pasta water Sea salt Directions: 1. In a large pot, cook the pasta according to package instructions. Pour away the pasta water. Reserving ½ cup for later usage. 2. In a large pan, heat 1…

The yam had salt added to them so they have been excluded. I consumed more servings of whole fruit and vegetables than juice as I did not consume any juice. c. Whole grains: - Whole wheat bread - Whole wheat tortilla - Triscuits d. Grain products low in fat, sugar, or salt The tortilla was high in salt (358.4mg), the whole wheat bread was moderately high in salt (145.8mg per slice), and the half serving of Triscuits consumed was relatively high in sodium (83.3mg for 4 crackers), thus I did…