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.
Anyone who has had a run in with Campylobacter can tell you it’s not a pleasant experience, and I am an anyone.
Another gem from the BBC’s the Food Programme. This week, the food journalist Sheila Dillon was reporting on the revival of butter and the possible reasons for it. Butter has been made for thousands of years and up until the 2nd world war we ate alot of it. Then came…
Unsettling news published yesterday online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI). Apparently men with high omega 3 oil levels in their blood had a significantly higher incidence of high grade (aggressive) and low grade (the most treatable) forms of prostate cancer.
..well, you are if you are a fruit fly. That’s the interesting research published in the PLOS ONE journal in March this year.
That was the reminder posted on the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) website today. The reason being that contaminated curry leaves were behind an outbreak of food poisoning at the Street Spice festival in Newcastle, UK, that affected more than 400 people.
That was one of the stories on the front page of the South China Morning Post (SCMP) today. The newspaper present the data from the analysis of 7 brands of baby formula. Three of which from mainland China, (Beingmate’s Baby Club, Synutra’s Super infant formula, and Yili’s Gold infant formula)…
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