Strawberries Lower Cholesterol

The consumption of strawberries lowered levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides in an experiment with volunteers. / Credit: SINC

A team of volunteers ate half a kilo of strawberries a day for a month to see whether it altered their blood parameters in any way. At the end of this unusual...
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Nuevas Estrategias De Mitigación De Gases De Efecto Invernadero

En un estudio realizado por investigadores de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) y la Universidad de Wageningen (WUR, Holanda) se ha conseguido reducir las emisiones de óxido nitroso hasta un 44% gracias a la elección correcta de las plantas que se sembraron. Estos resultados pueden se...
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Family Meals Do More Than Put Food on the Table

Make mealtime a family time. If you can get together for meals even a few times a week, family meals mean healthier eating – and more. For National Nutrition Month®, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages all families to make a commitment to eating more meals together and “Enjoy the ...
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Get The Most Nutrition From Your Calories

While taste drives most food choices, eating nutrient-rich foods that provide the most nutrition per calorie is one of the best ways to “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right,” according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As part of the 2014 National Nutrition Month® theme, the Academy enco...
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Fruit-Loving Lemurs Score Higher On Spatial Memory Tests

Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet.
The results support the idea that relying on foods that are seasonally available and far-flung gives a competitive edge to individuals with certain cognitive...
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You And I Will Monitor The Environment

Portable sensors will be issued to volunteers in the city and to employees such as traffic wardens who are exposed to urban pollution at work.

Environmental information about CO2, airborne dust and pollen will no longer be collected only at isolated measuring stations. From now on, cyclists,...
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Sauces, Marinades, And Dressings Address Desire For Ethnic Flavors

Sauces and marinades are an easy way for consumers cooking at home to infuse distinctive flavors into all kinds of different foods. In the February issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Contributing Writer David Despain writes about new...
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Warmer Winters Unlikely To Reduce Death Rate

New research has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK’s excess winter death rate as previously thought.


New research has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK’s excess winter death rate as previously thought.
The study is published in the journal...
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Involved Parents Raise Slimmer Adults

Remember that slim kid in school – the one with the cook-from-scratch mom? He’s likely one of the fittest dudes at your high school reunion according to new research from Cornell University, published online in the journal PLOS ONE.
“One of the best safeguards against your children becoming ove...
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Afecta Más La Sobredemanda En La Producción De Camarón Que El Cambio Climático

Las pesquerías que dependen de especies de corta vida, como la sardina o el camarón, han sido las más susceptibles a resentir los efectos del cambio climático, ya que este fenómeno afecta la producción de clorofila, que es la base para la producción de fitoplancton, alimento de ambas especie...
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Baby Poop Helps Making Healthy Sausage

Bacteria from baby poop can help make delicious sausages, which could transform savory meats into health foods much like probiotic yogurts, according to new research.
Bacteria and yeast ferment sugars in foods, generating acids, gases and alcohols. Bread gets its spongy texture from bubbles of...
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Children At Risk For Obesity Switch From Sugared Drinks To Water

Tucked neatly at the edge of rolling Appalachian foothills, the parking lot of a local high school is a meadow of flickering green ribbons tied to car antennas, reminding students about the dangers of drinking – drinking sugar-filled beverages, that is.
The ribbons are part of a program...
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What Has Happened To The Tsunami Debris From Japan?

The amount of debris in the ocean is growing exponentially, becoming more and more hazardous and harmful to marine life and therefore also to our ocean food source. Measuring and tracking the movements of such debris are still in their infancy. The driftage generated by the tragic 2011 tsunami...
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Traffic Lights Food Labelling System Prompts EU Inquiry

British traffic lights food labelling system has prompted EU regulators to launch an enquiry after other EU member states, led by Italy, complained it was unfair.
Britain has a voluntary colour-coding food products scheme to show consumers how healthy they are. The system tells consumers how...
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Food Traceability: How It Can Work Across Food Supply Chain?

 Recent developments across the globe have put an increasing focus on the traceability of foods. Complicated supply chains of hundreds of ingredients that are used to make a food product make food product tracing a daunting task. In an effort to better protect public health from foodborne ...
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RASFF Food Alerts, Week 8

Here is the summary of food alerts issued by Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) last week
On 17/02/2014, glass fragments were discovered in muffins from skimmed milk from France. The product was distributed to Poland, Germany. RASFF reference No.: 2014.0233.
On 20/02/2014, high content...
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New Processing Technique Helps Producing Safer Baby Food Puree

Although levels of furan—a carcinogen resulting from heat treatment techniques, such as canning and jarring—are far below of what would cause harmful effect as determined by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), a team of food scientists from Technische University Berlin found that treatment o...
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Human Bacteria Grow On Grapevines

The bacteria species Propioni bacterium acnes plagues the skin of humans worldwide, and has always been thought of as an exclusively human-seeking pathogen. So when researchers based at the Research and Innovation Center – Fondazione Edmund Mach in Italy analyzed bacterial colonies growing on t...
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Extreme Weather Decides Distribution Of Insects

Extreme weather caused by climate change in the coming decades is likely to have profound implications for distributions of insects and other invertebrates. This is suggested by a new study of insects in tropical and temperate regions of Australia.
As climate change is progressing, the...
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Tesco ‘Free From’ Digestive Biscuits Withdrawn

IRELAND – Tesco Ireland is recalling Tesco ‘Free From’ Digestive Biscuits, because some packs may contain biscuits from the Tesco ‘Free From’ Milk Chocolate Digestive Biscuits range, which contains soya and milk.  This allergen information is not declared on the label of the implicated Tesc...
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