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Nutrition

Is it time to subject Vitamin C to serious scientific scrutiny?

17/12/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Ever since 1970 when the Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling claimed that gram dose vitamin C supplementation could prevent and alleviate the common cold, the argument has rumbled on – how effective can vitamin C supplementation be for respiratory infections both mild (such as the …

Category: Conventional Medicine, COVID-19, NutritionTag: BMJ Nutr Prev Health, COVID19, High dose Vitamin C, High dose vitamin C for Covid19, High dose vitamin therapy, Patrick Holford, Trends in Immunology, Vitamin C, VitaminC4COVID

Share a meal

13/12/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Yes, indeed – what a lovely thing to be able to do – and one that we have been deprived of for all too long. But, we don't have to be. Over lockdown my good friend Sarah Stacey, who lives in a tiny village in Dorset, started cooking meals for a poorly neighbour. Talking to …

Category: COVID-19, Food, Nutrition, RecipesTag: @shareamealuk, #shareameal, https://www.shareameal.co.uk/, Sarah Stacey, Share-a-meal

The importance of nutrition in children’s food

09/12/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I posted about our revamped Child and Teen Friendly Food category in this year's FreeFrom Food Awards in which we are trying to tease out what children really think about the nutritional content of their food. So I was especially interested in an alert from FAB …

Category: Food, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: Child and Teen Friendly Food, FAB Food and Behaviour Research, FreeFrom Food Awards, nutrition and behaviour, nutrition and the brain

Kefir on offer

04/11/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

My pot of kefir, brewing gently, and my nearly empty jug of 'brewed' kefir A quick search of this blog reveals that I have been posting, on and off, about kefir since 2011 – and that the kefir that I have posted about has always come from Sue Cane, our gluten free beer expert. …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Food, NutritionTag: #HurdlebrookFarm, #rawmilk, #SueCane, #unpasteuriedmilk, acquiring kefir grains, FoodsMatter website, Gill Jacobs, growing kefir, kefir, kefir and raw milk, Raw Milk Suppliers

No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….

05/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: #allergyreactors, #chickpeasasanallergen, #EuropeanFoodSafetyAuthority, #freefromconsumer, #FreefromFoodAwards, #freefromindustry, #glutenfreeoats, #MayContainWarnings, #NoTop14, #peasasanallergen, EFSA, PAL

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