One of the most frustrating aspects of each year's judging for the Free From Food Awards is the amount of polystyrene packaging that comes our way. Mainly to keep frozen and chilled food frozen/chilled, but also often just as fillers. If ever there was a material which was …
Long COVID and Histamine Intolerance
As you may be aware, we have had a considerable interest in histamine intolerance ever since we started to work, many years ago, with Dr Janice Joneja. She is a world expert on histamine intolerance and for some years ran a Q&A series on histamine intolerance for us on the …
The Shape of Skin
My Skin Me: Why do you hate me? My skin: I don't! Me: You do. You hurt me. My skin: You ignore me when I ask for help. Me: But you're so aggressive, I get scared. Why can't you ask nicely? My skin: I've tried that. You're so thick skinned. You never listen. Me: You're …
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in times of COVID
No matter how you cut it, judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards is not something you can do over Zoom. While sending out parcels of five or even ten products to judges might be feasible, sending out parcels of 50 certainly would not be. Even if the numbers were manageable, we …
FAB Research – blindness in pre term babies
I have long been an admirer of the work of Dr Alex Richardson and her FAB Research (Food and Behaviour Research) team. Following in the footsteps of Dr Michael Crawford who, in the early 1970s, first highlighted the importance of dietary fats in the development of the brain, …