If We Must Eat Seaweed, Let It Be Really Healthy Seaweed!
By 2050, we’ll be in the grasp of a food revolution – one we didn’t ask for, but which was thrust upon us by climate change and the increasing need for sustainability in food production. We’ll be eating more Plant Proteins – and they’ll probably include red seaweeds and brown sugar kelp…Read More →
Would You Use Vanilla Made From Waste Plastic?
That’s the hope of researchers who have completed initial experiments showing that it’s possible to ‘ferment’ elements of plastic waste into what we known as ‘artificial vanilla’ flavouring. The chemical they’re producing is amazingly similar to one found in common water bottle plastic.Read More →
Sunday Musings: UK Bans Junk Food Ads On TV And The Net
The UK has a severe obesity problem: One out of every three kids leave primary school overweight or downright obese. And it’s in the primary school years that kids generally form the eating habits and food preferences that they take with them the rest of their lives… But will the proposed ban work?Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Service Resto And Snacks News!
Earlier this week, we told you about Wing Stop’s new Thighs offering and Trader Joe’s new Porkless Pork Rinds. But those are just the cherries on the top of this week’s Fast Food news rundown. Read on and discover what Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Pringles and others are serving up for summer…Read More →
Oddball Foods: Thighs-Only Wings? Kosher Pork Rinds?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold it a minute. Or, maybe, an hour. Not one but two new ‘food concepts’ have surfaced this week, demanding our attention and stretching our ability to accept what we would previously have thought was impossible. “When pigs fly!” we might have said…Read More →
‘Western’ Diet May Cause Chronic Pain, Psoriasis Flares
Yesterday, Dr. Obvious weighed in with a couple of new ‘scientific’ studies that told us a lot of stuff we already knew. Today, the learned newswire brings us a couple of more-useful reports suggesting many chronic pain sufferers may be able to find relief simply by changing their diet… Read More →