If you need to reduce your salt intake then don’t go it alone, start experimenting with herbs and spices in your food. That was the findings of research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology & Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity & Metabolism Scientific Sessions 2014.
A continuation of the meat mislabelling situation in the UK. Following the horse meat scandal and finding pork DNA in lamb burgers labelled as halal, Leicester City Council’s Food Safety Team have been testing food in their local area and the results are in.
Bisphenol-A or BPA has been the cause of great many debates about food packaging in the last few years.
With the traditional fasting period of Lent upon us before the big Easter egg gorge we decided to take a look at some various forms of fasting and what the scientists say are the consequences.
News this week from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website that they want your views on allowing cycloastragenol as a novel food ingredient.
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.
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