The European Fruit Juice Association, AIJN, will hold a summit in Brussels in October 2013 entitled The Juice Summit. It is co-organised with SGF International, EQCS and IFU.
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Here in Europe, the meat industry is still recovering from the horse meat scandal. But despite finding horse meat in many processed foods, at least the meat appears to have been relatively safe to eat. True, the meat was not tracked as meat fit for human consumption should be and…
Scientists investigating the contents of human milk have discovered a previously unreported indole alkoid called hypaphorine in the milk of some lactating mothers. Hypaphorine was first identified from tropical pea seeds back in 1889, and although over 100 years have passed we still do not have a complete understanding of…
Yep, although not yet seen on our side of the pond, a Coca-cola tv advert aired in the States and Canada back in January advised consumers that if their intake of calories is more than they burn off them they will put on weight.
It really does seem to be the most important meal of the day. In a study that followed nearly 27,000 men for 16 years, participants that skipped breakfast had a 27% higher risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) compared to those that ate one. And that’s not all, men…
In a study published in the August edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers claim that non human primates (NHP) fed a calorie controlled diet but high in fructose showed signs of kidney damage.
Hepatitis A has reared its ugly head in frozen berries again, this time in Ireland. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have advised people to boil all imported frozen berries for at least 1 minute to kill the virus. The source of the outbreak is as yet unknown, but…
That may sound obvious but many fruit juices are available that do not require to be put in the fridge until they are opened. Although they do not go bad before their best before date, they are probably losing their anthocyanins.
..and we are not talking about starving yourself, no, this really is about increasing the amount of nuts you eat to reduce your risk of dying of cardiovascular disease and eating walnuts to lower the risk of certain cancers.
Despite what you may think organic does not mean more nutritious, at least when it comes to milk. That was the take home message from a paper published in the Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.