'The Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science - has today named the fridge, pasteurised milk, and the tin can as the three most significant inventions in the history of food and drink. These relatively modern innovations outscored more ancient inventions including the …
Food
Yer actual instant fish dinner…
I am not good at planning ahead. Somehow, next week seems about as far as my thought processes will go (mention of business plans and 'targets for next year' send me into a vortex of panic) and I am afraid that this normally applies to food as well. As a result I rarely think …
How honest do you want/expect a review to be?
@HealthJourno (aka Alex G.) ran another excellent live coeliac Twitter chat last week, a lot of which focused on what bloggers wrote about freefrom products that they were sent to review. (Click here if you want the full transcript.) Some felt embarrassed about posting …
Could GM soya cause infertility?
In an appropriate footnote to yesterday's post about organically grown tomatoes being healthier, I have just seen an article in an April issue of The Voice of Russia about research, carried out by Russia's National Association for Gene Security and the Institute of Ecological and …
Organic tomatoes really are better for you…
Is it just wishful thinking that organic vegetables really are better for you than vegetables nurtured on chemical fertilisers and drenched in lethal insecticides? No, apparently not. A study published recently in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests that …