Those genetic tinkerers have been at it again. This time they have produced a purple tomato that has superior taste and longer shelf life.
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If our last story about using flies and maggots to feed our livestock was turning your stomach how about feeding them protein recovered from poultry industry waste such as feathers instead?
We’ve all heard the Mediterranean diet is good for us, but what do we do when its difficult to get some of the food items in the diet? Try the Nordic diet!
Cup of tea that is, for those non-English readers among you. That’s right, scientists have shown that drinking black tea can significantly control variation in blood pressure, which has been associated with cardiovascular disease.
With the Easter weekend at an end and a collection of small chocolate eggs sitting on my desk, I find myself reading again through the articles I had read over the last decade about the impending chocolate shortage. Could it really be that the days of cheap chocolate are coming…
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.
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…
John Smith’s Extra Smooth, a popular bitter in the UK is being reduced from 3.8% to 3.6% alcohol, and the price will increase.
Are you worried about the environmental cost of eating meat but can’t quite bring yourself to go vegetarian? Well, you could significantly reduce the impact by eating mealworms…yummy.
The Food Standards Agency has published 10 short videos to help caterers produce food safely. Each video is about a minute long and covers specific food hygiene practices. These training resources are designed to illustrate messages within the ‘Safer food, better business’ packs and they follow the same innovative and…