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Cook as directed, or use with prepared bone or vegetable broth. If making from scratch, make it your way by cooking in as little at 2.5 hours in an Instant Pot or pressure cooker (with just ten minutes of hands-on time), slow cook, or use your stovetop.

Enjoy on its own as a sipping broth, or use in our Immune Boosting Egg-Drop Soup featuring phytonutrient and flavonoid-rich spinach, mushrooms, and green onion, which is rich in quercetin and associated with anti-viral properties. Leaning on higher-fat, lower-carbohydrate, phytonutrient-rich meals like this is a very helpful anti-inflammatory measure.

To learn more about how higher-fat, low carbohydrate intake supports healthy resolution of the inflammation triggered by viral infections, see our blog for clinicians on inflammasome activation.

We love bone broth, and we know it well. Last year, we sent bone broth samples to a lab to investigate its essential and toxic mineral content and learned a lot we didn’t know about what it does and doesn’t contain. Want to learn more? You can access the results of our pilot study, here.

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Author

Jill Sheppard Davenport, MS, MPP, CNS, NBC-HWC, LN, LDN is a clinical nutritionist on our team specializing in functional nutrition. Visit us here to schedule a functional nutrition appointment.

Thank you to Gretchen DePalma, who contributed to these recipes and designed the layout. Gretchen is a talented member of our Nutrition Residency Program, where she is completing supervised hours for certification as a Certified Nutrition Specialist. To learn more, visit us here.