Artificial sweeteners are in many drinks nowadays. They give diet versions of fizzy drinks their sweetness instead of sugar allowing for low calorie alternatives for those on a calorie controlled diet or just those wanting to reduce their sugar intake.
The company at the centre of the food fraud scandal in China back in August that saw out of date meat repackaged and sold to McDonald’s, KFC and other major restaurant chains will see 340 of it’s 500 workforce cut.
16% of fish sold as cod or haddock in fish shops in the UK is actually a cheaper kind of fish. That was the rather concerning findings found by the consumer watchdog group Which? earlier this month.
A study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that a low carb diet is better than a low fat one in terms of weight loss and cardiovascular risk factors.
With the continuing EU ban on importing mangos and other fresh fruit from India, Pakistan is trying to fill the new gap in the market.
Obesity is a growing problem in the UK and one which is quite often put on the shoulders of bad diet, but a new briefing paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) says it is the lack of exercise not bad diet that is to blame.
Ask a few people what they think about genetic modification (GM) and it won’t take long for you to get a negative answer such as it is unnatural, or we don’t know what eating these foods might do to us.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but will a beer made of something else taste as good? Well, a young brewer from Mexico believes so and has made a type of pale ale with Bamboo.
News this week that Coca-cola will be removing the Stevia as the sweetener from Galceau Vitamin water in the US and returning to the old recipe.
Not good news for those on the Atkins or low carb diets. It seems that eating spuds with your steak or other red meat offers some protection from the negative effects associated with eating red meat.
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