Balancing Fats And Astringents In Our Mouths: Why Wine And Tea Pair So Well With A Meal
Of course a nice glass of wine goes well with a hearty steak, and now researchers who study the way food feels in our mouths think they may understand why that is: The astringent wine and fatty meat are like the yin and yang of the food world, sitting on opposite ends of a sensory spectrum…
October 10, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: astringent-wine, food, hearty-steak, mouths, nice-glass, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, opposite-ends, our-mouths, study-the-way, the-food, wine-goes
Consuming Fast Food Increases Risk Of Diabetes And Heart Disease In Singapore
The dangers of fast food are well documented; the portions are often larger and the food is generally high in calories and low in nutrients. Now, University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have examined the eating habits of residents in Singapore and found new evidence that a diet heavy in fast food increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease…
July 3, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet-heavy, fast-food, food, generally-high, new-evidence, on call diets, oncalldiets, portions, public-health, risk, singapore, the-eating
Food Industry Needs Closer Monitoring By Public Health Authorities
Starting on the 19 June 2012, PLoS Medicine will feature a major new series with 7 articles over the next three weeks entitled “Big Food”, which examines the impact of the food and beverage industry on public health…
June 22, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: articles-over, examines-the-impact, food, impact, industry-on-public, major-new, medicine, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-food, three-weeks, will-feature
Olive Oil, Milk And Honey Are Some Of The Most Vulnerable Ingredients Prone To Food Fraud
In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingredients in the food supply; analytical detection methods; and the type of fraud reported…
April 11, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: database-compiling, economically-motivated, food, food-highlight, highlight-the-most, on call diets, oncalldiets, reports-on-food, the-first, the-food, the-most, type
Simple, Concise Messages About The Benefits Of Phytonutrients Would Help Consumers
An expert panel at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Wellness 12 meeting urged the food industry to find simple yet powerful language to tell consumers about the many benefits of a diet rich in phytonutrients. Phytonutrients are plant-based components that are thought to promote health, such as beta carotene and lycopene…
April 10, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beta-carotene, diet, find-simple, food, institute, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, promote-health, such-as-beta, technologists, tell-consumers, urged-the-food
No BPA Ban On Cans And Food Packaging, Says FDA
Bisphenol A, also known as BPA will not be banned from cans and other food/drinks packagings, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday, saying that those who requested the ban had not provided enough compelling data…
March 31, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: announced-yesterday, bpa, fda, food, known-as-bpa, not-provided, other-food, will-not
Eradicating Salmonella With Popcorn-Shaped Gold Particles
Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year. Another traditional test takes 72 hours to complete…
March 29, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food, green-salads, mainstay-ingredient, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, people-each, poisoning-bacteria, results, results-show, salmonella, test-takes, the-food, traditional
Is It A Peanut Or A Tree Nut? Half Of Those With Allergies Aren’t Sure
Adults and children in a recent study could correctly identify, on average, fewer than half of an assortment of the peanuts and tree nuts that are among the most common food allergens in the United States. Parents of children with peanut and tree-nut allergies did no better at identifying the samples in the survey than did parents of children without this food allergy…
March 16, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergy, common-food, food, nutritional counseling, peanuts, samples, survey, united
Healthier Food Choices Impacted By Low Motivation And Attention, Not The Labeling Itself
The final results from the Food Labeling to Advance Better Education for Life (FLABEL) project, which provides the latest research on consumer behavior and nutrition labels, demonstrate that even though the nutritional information on European food labels is well understood, consumers lacking motivation and attention nevertheless prevent the labels from making a positive impact on food choices…
November 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advance-better, food, food-labels, from-the-food, labels, latest, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, well-understood
Black Licorice Halloween Hazard! Don’t Eat Too Much Warns FDA
Halloween is the biggest candy eating holiday in the US, and many Americans will be stashing up on licorice: but in a timely update to consumers issued this week, the Food and Drug Administration asks: do you realize that you can overdose on licorice? Eating too much (for instance 2 ounces a day for two weeks), especially if you are aged 40 or older, can land you in …
October 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biggest, food, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, overdose-on-licorice, too-much, two-weeks