If you want kids to eat healthier snacks promote them in a manga magazine (a type of comic book), that was the message from a paper published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in January.
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Not quite as catchy as the yogurt makers slogan but this is the news that consuming the amino acid tyrosine could give you faster reflexes.
Sensible if you think about it, but still surprising, breast milk will differ in its contents depending on whether the child is a boy or a girl.
If you want to estimate how much methylmercury is present in marine animals look to the water, not the sediment to do it. That was the findings of a paper published earlier this week in the journal PLOS one.
Another reason to make sure you’re getting a good dose of fresh fruit and veg.
Despite the horse meat scandal and the increase in food testing that consumers assumed would be taking place it would appear food fraud in the UK is still rife.
Stevia, anyone who’s seen the new Tropicana adverts will know what I am talking about, a natural sweetener from plant extract that is making a splash in a world of artificial sweeteners.
Yes, those clever crop scientists have been hard at work and produced a treatment for broccoli that first of all increases the amount of glucosinolates while the vegetable is ripening and then a second treatment that slows down the ripening process and hence increases the shelf life.
An interesting paper from a Spanish group published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry demonstrates that when rats are given grape extract it can counteract the detrimental effects normally associated with a “cafeteria” diet.
To cut a long story short, yes. But why the question?