I’ve often thought about how manufacturers pack food kits containing perishable items for shipping. Turns out, many food kits arrive at customers’ doors with one or more critical ingredients warmer than the 40 F – above which harmful bacteria can start to grow and reproduce…Read More →
A new online app developed by a team at the University of Bergen, Norway, claims to predict how many extra years of life you can expect to ‘earn’ by making the right dietary choices early in life. The question is: Will those who can benefit most actually use this tool?Read More →
What a week! We have specials to take us through St. Patrick’s Day to Easter. Wendy’s has big new for Canadian breakfast lovers. Pepsi answers last week’s Coke ‘space-flavour’ announcement with a new techno-flavour of its own. And a super-sweet special from Krispy Kreme…Read More →
They’ve been telling us to expect it for months – actually more than two years, now – and it’s finally coming to pass, big time. Canadians (and, we can assume, Americans by association) are making big concessions and outright changes to their food-buying habits to make ends meet…Read More →
Canada and the United States get 80 percent or more of its avocados from one region in Mexico. For the past couple of weeks, the U.S. has banned imports of those avocados after an American agricultural products inspector working in Mexico received a threatening phone call…Read More →
We’re all familiar with the drugging shenanigans of the Russians at the 2022 Olympics, trying as they often do to give their athletes an unfair advantage. But some competitors and coaches suggest their Chinese hosts may be using food to put visiting athletes at a disadvantage…Read More →