Author: dietasian

I am a Registered Dietitian with over 25 years experience in nutrition counseling for chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders, obesity as well as metabolic and bariatric surgery.

DietAsian – The Asian DietitianDietAsian – The Asian Dietitian

February 28, 2023| dietasian| 0 Comments| 3:27 am

My name is Maria Tucker and I am a Registered Dietitian who happens to be Asian, hence my site, DietAsian. I was born and raised in the Philippines, eating vegetables and fruits commonly grown there. I moved to the United States some 30 years ago, met my husband and started our family in North Carolina. We bought our first house and had a small vegetable garden with mostly tomatoes and peppers. It was not enough for me, missing vegetables I grew up eating back home. Most Asian vegetables are not available at your local grocery stores and you’d have to drive to an Asian store to find them. I got interested in growing them, inspired by the Pilipino children’s song, “Bahay Kubo”. This song is about a typical house in the Philippine countryside, called the nipa hut, surrounded by plantings of vegetables, including jicama, eggplant, winged beans, peanuts, yard-long beans, hyacinth beans, lima beans, hairy gourds, loofah gourds, bottle gourds, winter squash, radish, mustard, onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger and sesame.