Keeping bread fresh for longer: new edible film made with essential oils
Essential oils have boomed in popularity as more people seek out alternatives to replace their synthetic cleaning products, anti-mosquito sprays and medicines.
June 6, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: more-people, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, popularity-as-more, seek-out, seek-out-alternatives, synthetic, synthetic-cleaning
Chemicals in food packaging ‘may be harmful to human health’
Many of the synthetic chemicals involved in packaging and storing the food we eat can leak into it, potentially harming our long-term health, say environmental scientists in a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.Although some of these chemicals are regulated, people come into contact with them almost every day through packaged or processed foods.
February 20, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: almost-every, day-through, diet, food, journal, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, paper-published, people-come, synthetic, the-synthetic
Caffeine-‘Addicted’ Bacteria Offer Applications In Medicine, The Environment And More
Some people may joke about living on caffeine, but scientists now have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to do that – literally. Their report in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology describes bacteria being “addicted” to caffeine in a way that promises practical uses ranging from decontamination of wastewater to bioproduction of medications for asthma
April 1, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: coli-bacteria, from-decontamination, genetically-engineered, journal, oncalldietitian.com, people-may, promises-practical, synthetic, synthetic-biology, the-journal, uses-ranging
