Another story of food fortification or “enrichment” for you, researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have been turning pasta very green by fortifying it with broccoli powder(BP).
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Seafood appears not to be such a contributor to mercury in the blood as previously thought.
Supplements of omega 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA for 6 months kept the cells of elderly people younger than supplements of a plant based omega 6 fatty acid. That was the gist of a new research paper published in the journal Nutrition. The “age” of the cells in this…
..for ice cream enriched with pomegranate by-products??? Well, that is a little doubtful, but the idea behind this piece of research is that the enrichment of the ice cream works on the nutritional level and not on the taste buds.
…and the rest of us can do it too. Those helpful lot at the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have made an app called CalCutter to help New Yorkers cut the calories in their recipes.
A paper published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) has delved into older studies and reanalyzed the data to look for an association between diabetes and consuming dairy products.
A study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science suggests that kiwi fruit can enhance the mood of moody men who are not eating enough fruit and vegetables.
Back in April we reported on a couple of papers that had found drinking a glass of beetroot juice a day can lower your blood pressure and that it was the nitrates in the beetroot that were responsible for the effect.
Some baby foods on sale in the UK aimed at children as young as 4 months (current recommendation is to start weaning at 6 months) do not meet infant weaning needs. That was the take home message in a paper published in the journal “Archives of Disease in Childhood” last…
A paper published in the Journal Science last week demonstrates the importance of gut bacteria as well as diet in the fight against obesity.