Why raw dog food could be harmful for pets and owners alike
Researchers have found that some raw dog food products harbor harmful bacteria that could cause infections both in dogs and their human family members.
October 17, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-products, harbor-harmful, human, nutrition, oncalldiets, raw-dog, their-human
VTT: Bilberries to increase our dietary fiber intake
Bilberries — a unique part of the Nordic diet — could be utilised in higher amounts in food products to increase our dietary fibre intake.
March 10, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amounts, dietary, dietary-fibre, food-products, higher-amounts, nordic, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, unique-part
Do you know the food you’re eating.. or the food you think you’re eating?
Detailed information about the chemical composition of food products will be readily available to producers, retailers and consumers, thanks to research at the University of Huddersfield.
March 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chemical, chemical-composition, diet, food-products, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, university
Traffic light food labels strengthen self-control
Should food products be labeled with traffic light symbols to make health-related information on ingredients easier to understand? This question has remained a subject of debate.
March 10, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food-products, make-health-related, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, question, traffic-light
Carbohydrates from the Okra plant can improve the quality of food products
ESTONIAN-born Katerina Alba’s research at the University of Huddersfield could help to improve the quality of some of the most popular emulsion-based food products – such as butter, mayonnaise…
July 15, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-products, huddersfield, improve-the-quality, katerina, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, popular-emulsion-based, quality, such-as-butter, the-most, university
Phage ‘cocktail’ wipes out 99 percent of E. coli in meat and spinach
Treating food products with select bacteriophages – viruses that target and kill bacteria – could significantly reduce concentrations of E. coli, a Purdue University study shows.An injection of bacteriophages – also known informally as “phages” – nearly eradicated a toxin-producing strain of E. coli in contaminated spinach and ground beef, in some cases decreasing E.
April 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-products, ground-beef, kill-bacteria, nearly-eradicated, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, purdue, purdue-university, reduce-concentrations, some-cases
Combining health and environment
Healthy food products that are produced in an environmentally-friendly manner will boost the health of the Swiss population while protecting natural resources. The National Research Programme “Healthy Nutrition and Sustainable Food Production” (NRP 69) aims to identify new approaches to food production.
January 22, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: boost-the-health, food-products, health, healthy-nutrition, national, national-research, population-while, programme, protecting-natural, swiss
Nanotech labels for food wanted and the public are prepared to pay for it
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Minnesota finds that people in the United States want labels on food products that use nanotechnology – whether the nanotechnology is in the food or is used in food packaging. The research also shows that many people are willing to pay more for the labeling…
October 30, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food-products, labeling, labels-on-food, minnesota, nanotechnology, north, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, united, united-states, university, want-labels
What are the health benefits of spearmint?
Spearmint is a pleasant-smelling species of mint often used in medicine for its claimed therapeutic properties. The herb is found in many health food products, toothpastes, mouthwashes, and cosmetics
September 17, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food-products, health-claims, herb, its-claimed, mint-often, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-consumption
Gluten and lactose-free ingredient substitute found for low-fat white sauces
Consumers are increasingly demanding the development of ready-to-eat gluten and lactose-free food products that meet their needs and help improve their health.
October 17, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: development, food-products, health, increasingly-demanding, new-white, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, recent-study, shows-how, their-needs