Today, we are talking functional foods, i.e. food that has added functions such as disease prevention or health promoting benefits.
If you’re getting on in years, have suffered from heart failure, and want to improve your exercise endurance, then a daily glass of beetroot juice could be the way to go. And I’d assume this could also be beneficial for those wishing to improve their sport performance in general.
Yes, that is the news from a paper that has been accepted for publication in the journal Food and Function.
We’ve all heard that we should get our daily dose of fresh fruit and vegetables, whether that be the 5 a day or 7. But what about a daily dose of mushrooms?
We all know that snacking in general is not recommended. But if you do need to snack on something, try leaving those crisps (or chips if you prefer) on the shelf and reach for some almonds instead.
Barley, not only the base for one of the best types of drinks around, it turns out that it can help against obesity and metabolic syndrome.
That is indeed the question this week. There has been fierce debate for many years over whether or not organic is better for you, in terms of less pesticide residue obviously but also in terms of the nutritional content of the food.
Putting aside the fact that drinking raw cow’s milk is dangerous and the current advice from the powers that be in the states and the UK is don’t drink it, it would seem that it could lower the chances of children developing asthma. A paper published in the Journal of…
In case you haven’t been following it, there has been growing interest in the last few years about the microorganisms that live in your gut and the effect they have on you from affecting your moods to making you fat. There have been experiments with transferring the gut microbiota from…
Interesting news from the Journal of Food Science, if you want to increase the bioavailability of cucuminoids then putting it into some yogurt instead of an aqueous solution is the way to go.