Scientists at Cornell University have found a different way to make a super nutritious form of puffed rice.
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Back in 2011 we reported on a new type of broccoli containing 2-3 times the amount of the phytonutrient glucoraphanin compared to other varieties.
An excess of salt in the diet contributed to the deaths of 2.3 million people worldwide in 2010. Despite this, 75% of people consume nearly twice the recommended levels.
London of the 18th and 19th centuries was a very different place from today. Most food fraud cases in the UK today involve bulking out a product with a cheaper one such as the horse meat scandal, or the great basmati rice scam.
Eating processed meat is the cause of 1 in 30 early deaths. That was the headline in English newspapers yesterday after a paper was published on the BMC medicine website.
A new one for you. German authorities are investigating the possibility that eggs laid by hens in cramped conditions have been mis-sold as organic. So far, 150 farms in Lower Saxony have been implicated in the scandal, and 50 farms from two other regions of Germany are also being investigated.
In January 2011, dioxins were detected in eggs originating from Germany had been shipped all over Europe. Dioxins are a by-product of chemical and pesticide production, they are also produced during burning, such as incineration. They accumulate in body fat and high doses over many years can lead to fertility…
Unfortunately that is not slang for great, it literally can make you blind. On the 15th July 2011 an explosion in an illegal distillery in Boston, UK, killed 5 men and uncovered a £1bn fake vodka scam. In the same month, another distillery located on Brewery Street, Birmingham was raided…
Treating beef carcasses with lactic acid (or milk acid) has been used for a while in the US beef industry as a way of reducing the incidence of pathogenic organisms and the number of bacteria. Researchers from Colorado State University decided to test the effect of lactic acid treatment on…
Six infants died, 860 were hospitalised and approx 300,000 were affected by the melamine milk scandal in China in 2008.