Hot on the heels of the study that found that eating at least 7 servings of fruit and vegetables per day was the best for lowering chance of death a meta analysis has found that actually 5 is enough.
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Yes, this story really is about a tree that is able to produce 40 different types/varieties of fruit. On learning that the orchard at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station was to be shut down due to lack of funding, an art professor who had grown up on a…
The latest round of beef testing has been completed and the results are in, of 2,622 samples tested within Europe, only 16 have come back positive for traces of horse meat.
The English newspaper the Guardian have run an exposé on the poultry industry in the UK and it does not bode well.
Lovers of chicken McNuggets in Hong Kong will have to wait a bit for their next serving. Sales of the product have been suspended after the supplier of some of their pork and chicken was accused of reprocessing expired meat.
With so many publications advising us to cut our red meat consumption it is refreshing to have one that says we should include it in our diet.
Rice is a staple food of most of Asia and is also present in many of our baby foods here in Europe.
According to a study published ahead of print of the British Journal of Nutrition website, eating soluble corn fibre could increase the amount of calcium that your body absorbs.
News in this week that eating avocado with food rich in pro Vitamin A (beta carotene being the most important) significantly increases your absorption of the vitamin.
That depends who you ask. Ask the main author of the FSA commissioned report in 2009 or the authors of the 2012 study and they will tell you no. But ask Prof. Leifert and the other authors of a new paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition this month…