The pleasures – and perils – of protein: Study in fruit flies reveals new clues to appetite and aging
If you’re a human who’s really hungry, a handful of nuts, a piece of cheese or a nice juicy steak may really hit the spot. If you’re a fruit fly, a nibble of yeast will do the trick.
September 10, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, nice-juicy, nutrition / diet, really-hit, really-hungry, spot, steak-may, trick
From Pasture To Plate
The package on a supermarket steak may say “grass-fed” or “grass-finished,” but how can a consumer know whether the cow spent its days grazing peacefully on meadow grass or actually gorged on feedlot corn? In ACS’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists are now reporting the development of a method that can reconstruct the dietary history of cattle and authentic…
May 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agricultural, chemistry, consumer-know, cow-spent, development, dietary, now-reporting, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, steak-may, the-development, the-dietary, whether-the-cow
