Yes, we have gone international!! Well, strictly speaking we are hanging on the coat tails of the Allergy + FreeFrom Show which ran its first show in Berlin last year. So successful was it that they decided to go back this year and the show's director, David McAllister, asked us …
Nutrition
Tube Feeding Awareness week
Those of you who also read the FoodsMatter newsletter may have seen Rachel's article about her multi allergic family – herself, Type1 Diabetic, her daughter, wheat and dairy allergic and her 10-year old son, who is now living on five foods but who spent last year being tube fed …
FreeFrom Food Awards – matters arising…
There is no doubt that the quality of the products entered into the 2016 FreeFrom Food Awards has continued to improve. It is rare now that one meets a product which is obviously 'free from' anything; more often than not they are either indistinguishable from 'normal' products …
All judged……
So, the FreeFrom Food Awards judging is over for another year. Two weeks, nearly 450 products, 65 judges and thousands of judging sheets. And although it is seriously full on (6am to 9pm when-you-fall-into-bed 'full on') it is hugely enjoyable both for all of us and, it seems, …
The rise and fall of sliced bread – and the evils of food additives
Two of John Scott's research reports last week, although not directly related, caught my eye. The first was an article in the Daily Mail quoting a recent Mintel report about sliced bread and its decline in popularity – well, relative decline at least. Eighty per cent of the UK …