Importance of food as key provider of vitamins and nutrients

While dietary supplements can help some people meet their nutrition needs, eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods is the best way for most people to obtain the nutrients they need to be healthy and reduce their risk of chronic disease, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

New Super-Nutritious Puffed Rice For Breakfast Cereals, Snacks: American Chemical Society Podcast

The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series reports a new process for blowing up grains of rice to produce a super-nutritious form of puffed rice, with three times more protein and a rich endowment of other nutrients…

Nutrient Balance As Sensed By The Brain

There is no doubt that eating a balanced diet is essential for maintaining a healthy body weight as well as appropriate arousal and energy balance, but the details about how the nutrients we consume are detected and processed in the brain remain elusive…

Vitamin-D Enhanced Mushrooms

A new commercial processing technology is suitable for boosting the vitamin D content of mushrooms and has no adverse effects on other nutrients in those tasty delicacies, the first study on the topic has concluded.

What Is Vitamin B2? What Is Riboflavin?

Vitamin B2, also known as riboflavin, or additive E101 is an essential nutrient for human health. Riboflavin can be found in grains, plants and dairy products. Vitamin B2 is crucial for breaking down food components, absorbing other nutrients, and maintaining tissue.

Nutrition Rating Enhancing Front-Of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems And Symbols: Phase 1

Nutrition rating systems and symbols on the fronts of food packaging would be most useful to shoppers if they highlighted four nutrients of greatest concern – calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium – says a new report from the Institute of Medicine…

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