African Union: Time to scale up nutritional interventions
Nutritional interventions need to be scaled up to tackle malnourishment and undernourishment that affects more than 200m Africans, the African Union (AU) has said.
Archives for August 22, 2011
Wanted: Food science journalist/editor
Do you know your prebiotics from your probiotics? Could you write and broadcast convincingly about emulsifiers and stabilisers? If the answer is yes, we would like to hear from you.
Carob cocoa replacer cuts recipe costs, claims Tate & Lyle
Volatile cocoa prices and supply issues have prompted Tate & Lyle to launch a range of carob powder ingredients which can reduce costs by replacing up to 40 per cent of the cocoa component in dairy, bakery and ice cream recipes.
Experts defend GM trials after Greenpeace attack
Bringing a halt to genetically modified (GM) food trials would undermine competitiveness, according to one expert responding to the destruction of a GM wheat trial at a CSIRO farm in Canberra.
Breakfast cereals boost nutritional intake in low income populations: Study
Breakfast cereals make a significant contribution towards the micronutrient intake of the low-income UK population, according to new research.
Sat-fat reductions not as effective for cholesterol reduction, suggests study
A diet that combines cholesterol-lowering foods may results in greater decreases in low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels than a low-saturated fat diet, according to new research.