Most of that sweet fare is coming from home.
In recent years, America’s intake of sugary foods and drinks has dropped, but kids in the U.S. are still consuming too much, government researchers say.
Continue reading… “Study: Still too much sugar in kids’ diets”
Sensors pick up the change when a fruit ripens or rots.
Have you ever taken a big gulp of milk only to find out then that the milk is sour.? A new technology will let you simply wave your phone over it–or any food–to get a verdict on whether it’s still edible.
Continue reading… “Edible silk sensors let you know if your food is spoiled”
An intestinal cell monolayer after exposure to nanoparticles, shown in green.
Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.
A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering and the James and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles — a common, FDA-approved material found in substances from food additives to vitamins — affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells…
Continue reading… “Nanoparticles in food, vitamins could harm human health”
Several states already limit trans-fat in school cafeterias.
Colorado is the nation’s leanest state and it is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation’s toughest school trans-fat ban.
Continue reading… “Colorado considers nation’s toughest trans-fat ban in schools”
Sugar and other sweeteners are so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to researchers.
A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Continue reading… “Researchers say sugar should be regulated as a toxin”
Ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern Hemisphere’s major industrialized regions damages six important agricultural crops.
Europe loses 1.2 million tons of wheat a year due to man-made pollution from North America, an new study has found.
Continue reading… “Food crops harmed by air pollution crossing continents: study”
Why make your food when you can print it?
Futurist Thomas Frey talked about 3D food printers HERE and now we have a production model that can print with chocolate (and more). How awesome is that!
From Gizmodo:
Instead of the toxic smell of melted plastics, while the Imagine 3D printer is doing its thing, your workspace will be filled with the aroma of delicious confections. Because its printing head uses syringes that can be filled with chocolate…
The researchers hope their discovery can be exploited to combat obesity by increasing people’s sensitivity to fat in their food.
Scientists thought the human tongue could detect only four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salt and bitter. Then a fifth was discovered, “umami” or savory. Now, researchers have identified a previously-unrecognized “sixth taste” – fat.
Eating 50g of processed meat a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19%.
Eating two slices of bacon or one sausage a day can increase the risk of a deadly form of cancer by almost a fifth, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Eating two slices of bacon everyday can increase risk of cancer by a fifth”
DASH Diet is best diet overall.
The U.S. News & World Report rated the Best Diets for 2012 this week, including 25 different diet plans. The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was the winner. The DASH Diet is a plan to prevent high blood pressure and it took the top spot in the Best Diets Overall category.
Continue reading… “Experts rate 25 diet plans”
Skippy shrank their 18-ounce container size down to 16.3 ounces.
If you are willing to look close enough, we’re actually being confronted by a serious bout of deflation when it comes to the size of the containers sitting on our supermarket shelves. Good things may come in small packages but that doesn’t mean they are good deals. Here’s how your favorite grocery-store items are shrinking before your eyes.
Continue reading… “Inflation hiding in smaller package sizes”
“Artisanal” foods are springing up everywhere.
If you are in the restaurant, foodservice or food manufacturing business you know that no matter how tough the economy is, people still need to eat. In the past few years foodservice entrepreneurs have shown a lot of creativity. You could almost say the recession has sparked a renaissance of restaurant industry creativity. Beyond food trucks, burgers and beer, here are some of the hot food trends for 2012.
Continue reading… “Top 10 food trends for 2012”
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