How I Utilize Sauces as a Tool For Healthy Eating

Five sauces to make even the blandest of meals flavorful

Brandon J Eudy, PhD
8 min readAug 30, 2023
10 different colorful sauces arranged on a wooden serving dish resting on a wooden table.
Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash.

In today’s food environment laden with junk and convenience options, it can sometimes be difficult to consistently choose or cook healthy meals. Although the preconception that healthy eating requires time and effort is sometimes true, it never has to be. Not to mention, healthy food just doesn’t taste very good right? These are false pretenses and they got me to ask the question: If I wanted to eat healthy meals that were easy to prepare AND tasted amazing, how would I do it? The conclusion I came to was that is all about the sauce and that is what I wanted to share my thoughts (and recipes) on here today.

Sauces and condiments are among the easiest ways to add more layers of flavor to a dish. I’m not talking about rich French sauces like hollandaise here (though they have their place too), but rather I’m focusing on sauces that are easy to make, contain generally healthy ingredients, and are very flavorful. Imagine that you want to eat chicken breast and rice for lunch, because it’s a light, easy-to-prepare meal, but you also dread it because this type of meal just doesn't have much flavor. This is where sauces come in. In fact, the right sauce can transform even the blandest of foods into a symphony of flavors, and in this article, I…

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Brandon J Eudy, PhD

Dr. Brandon J Eudy holds a PhD in nutritional sciences. He writes about food, cooking, and nutrition.