News this week from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website that they want your views on allowing cycloastragenol as a novel food ingredient.
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We reported (as everyone did) last year on the horse meat scandal and earlier this year about the testing that is continuing into our food products in the UK.
A high protein diet is good in old age, but detrimental to health in middle age, at least according to a paper published in the journal Cell Metabolism this month.
Vegetarians in Austria are more likely to be in a poorer state of health and have a lower quality of life compared to meat eaters. That was one of the surprise findings in a paper published in the journal PLOS last month.
Eating more fatty fish increases the amount of large particles of HDL cholesterol (also known as good cholesterol) in your blood. That was the main findings of a paper published in the journal PLOS and reported on the news website AlphaGalileo this morning.
The horse meat scandal, over one year has passed and what has changed? Well, in terms of what local authorities can do about it not enough, that is according to Rod Ainsworth of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), UK.
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.
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.