Yes, those helpful little guys have been put to a new task, and although they did not manage it completely, they did make a difference. This is the story that 60 people with hayfever were given a probiotic yogurt containing Lactobacillus casei Shirota everyday for 16 weeks and then their…
Together with Koppert Cress, QFOOD presented the new LUMOS test for Carotene and Lycopene at the “Voedingsdebat 2013“. Fruit and vegetable cultivators as well as producers and traders were the first to get an impression of this quick, simple and reliable test for in-house analysis. A press statement can be…
Research to be published in the November edition of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) has found that taking calcium carbonate while eating cured meat could help reduce your chance of colon cancer.
Another story of food fortification or “enrichment” for you, researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have been turning pasta very green by fortifying it with broccoli powder(BP).
Seafood appears not to be such a contributor to mercury in the blood as previously thought.
Supplements of omega 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA for 6 months kept the cells of elderly people younger than supplements of a plant based omega 6 fatty acid. That was the gist of a new research paper published in the journal Nutrition. The “age” of the cells in this…
Another story concerning our foe E.coli 0157:H7 for you. New research from Japan to be published in the March 2014 edition of Food Control describes the use of polylysine and carbon dioxide to reduce the incidence of E.coli 0157:H7 and Salmonella contamination of beef. Polylysine is a polymer of the…
..for ice cream enriched with pomegranate by-products??? Well, that is a little doubtful, but the idea behind this piece of research is that the enrichment of the ice cream works on the nutritional level and not on the taste buds.
Surprising news from the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes held in Barcelona at the end of last month.
…and the rest of us can do it too. Those helpful lot at the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have made an app called CalCutter to help New Yorkers cut the calories in their recipes.
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