Not only can it make lobster blush, seaweed is also a highly nutritious food that literally surrounds the UK. So why do we not eat more of these sea vegetables in the same way as the Japanese enjoy their Nori?
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An interesting video was published by the EFS in the “Understanding Science” white board video series, in which EFSA staff explain scientific concepts. It describes all about chemical contaminants in food. The video may be found here.
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to review the scientific comments received on the Scientific Opinion of the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) on the scientific substantiation of health claims related to isolated soy protein and reduction of blood LDL-cholesterol concentrations.
It’s a pending problem that has been spoken about often. How do we feed the increasing world population especially with the increase in demand for meat? Entomophagy, the eating of insects. Despite the yuck factor that you are probably feeling insects are already eaten in some cultures around the world…
The Commission publishes today its scientific committees’ opinion on the use of the ‘Threshold of Toxicological Concern’ (TTC) approach for risk assessment of chemical substances in cosmetics and consumer products. The Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) approach is a risk assessment tool. It uses available knowledge on the structure and…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the drug Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride) in the fight against obesity. It is the first new drug to be approved in 13 years.
Scientists from Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon and USANA Health Sciences, Inc., Salt Lake City have demonstrated that tea and grape seed extracts can lower the conversion of starch into glucose in the body. This is good news for suffers of type II diabetes who are often prescribed enzyme inhibitors which,…
Eggs from an organic farm in Lower Saxony, Germany, have been found to contain dioxin. It is thought 260,000 eggs could be affected, having levels of dioxin 4 times the legal limit. The farm has been closed and an investigation is underway into the source of the contamination. The farmer…
If you’ve been keeping up-to-date with healthy food stories then no doubt you have heard about phenolics in fruits and teas and how their antioxidant activity can protect you against free radicals. But did you know that cereals also contain phenolics sometimes at levels higher than those in fruit and…
The Food Standards Agency’s shellfish monitoring programme has successfully completed a move away from tests using mice for the detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.