#Salt for Life incredibly realistic salt replacement Salt for Life will begin rolling out online and in grocery stores in August and September of this year.
Salt for Life comes from Nu-Tek Salt, a Bill gates-endorsed company that sells salt replacement products that contain 70%less sodium than traditional salt.
Unlike salt replacers of the past, Nu-Tek s products actually taste like the real thing.
Big food producers have started already using it, but soon you ll be able to buy it yourself.
According to Nu-Tek president and COO Don Mower, 10 of the top 13 food producers in the world have started incorporating Nu-Tek s Advanced Formula Potassium chloride (one of the salt
replacement products) into meats and other items since its launch in 2010.##oewe have taken a logical path on how we have developed the technology and put it in the marketplace.
First, we wanted to establish ourselves in the marketplace as a good ingredient, so we re available for food applications in processed meats, bakery, dairy,
and cheese,#says Mower.##oethe next logical step is a product for service operators and consumers that uses the same technology in a way that s more consumer-friendly.#
#That consumer-friendly product is Salt for Life, which will begin rolling out online and in grocery stores in August and September of this year.
The salt replacement will be available in a tabletop shaker, retail-sized canister, and as individual sachets.
Nu-Tek s secret sauce, says Mower, is what it calls#oesingle crystal technology.##Traditional sodium reduction products mix potassium chloride with salt
and flavoring (to cover up potassium chloride s metallic taste). All the ingredients are blended in a dry mixbut the different flavor components hit the tongue at different times,
so eaters still pick up the metallic flavoring. Other companies have tried pressing all the materials together, but they come apart easily in food processing,
and then that metallic taste appears again. Nu-Tek takes potassium chloride and salt, turns it into a wet slurry (diluting it), blends it in an organic acid like lemon juice, and recrystallizes it.#
#oethose materials no longer separated. They re now bound together in a single crystal, #explains Mower.#
#oeyou don t get that traditional bitter metallic note, and you can use the salt replacement at much higher levels.#
#At first, Salt for Life will probably appeal to people who are actively trying to keep their salt intake down (in fact,
a family member of mine with high blood pressure begged me to hand over the sample I had been testing).
Salt for Life tastes more realistic than most sugar replacers. Consumers in the U s. are increasing their sodium consumption by 63 mg per day every two years, according to Medical Daily.
Nu-Tek s products may be an option for a populace that has grown accustomed to ever-higher amounts of salt in their foodsand who may be unknowingly eating large amounts of the stuff in processed items (when cooking,
it s easier to simply cut down on salt use altogether).##oethe whole paradigm on the importance of nutrition in food is really having a dramatic shift with consumers,
#says Mower.##oei think that will spawn more and more food companies and more and more startup companies to look to technology to address some of these issues.#
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#How the shipping container built the modern world Shipping containers On a Mid-april sunny Tuesday morning,
or cleaning them and using polypropylene liners to move anything from soy, corn, and wheat to salt and sugar.
Even cars and trucks#nown in the trade as#oeroro,#or#oeroll-on roll off#cargo#re increasingly being loaded into containers rather than specialized ships.#
the feeder ship that moves it to Singapore to be loaded onto a bigger Europe-bound freighter, the crane operator in Hamburg, customs officials, train engineers, and more.
filled with whiskey headed to the U s. and guns on their way to Europe. Liquor bottles were traditionally a target for light-fingered longshoremen
and Scotch exporters were sold quickly on container-sized tanks that allowed them to ship their product in bulk
#oefrom whiskey distillers in Scotland to apple growers in Australia, major users of international shipping abandoned breakbulk freight as soon as regular container shipping was able to meet their needs,
#oeright now, we ve got too many eggs in too few baskets, #says Muller. In the U s.,two adjacent ports#os Angeles and Long beach#andle nearly half of the nation s container traffic.
When Hurricane Katrina closed ports in and around Louisiana that handle a significant share of America s food imports and exports
food prices ticked up 3 percent and stayed there for six months as the system struggled to adjust.
#says Karl Olaf Petters, a spokesman for Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the company that runs Altenwerder and most of Hamburg s other cargo terminals.
rice was a primary ingredient of their diets, after all. But RNA molecules are pretty fragile.
The study had big implications for medicine and our food supply. For instance, it suggested that researchers might be able to design oral RNA drugs for a host of diseases,#oeone of the holy grails#of the field,
The Monsanto researchers combed through large datasets of genetic sequences obtained from mammals, chickens, and insects, looking for any trace of plant mirnas.
in animals that had eaten never food containing mir-168, suggesting that it could have been the result of a contamination,
#oethat horizontal delivery of micrornas via typical dietary ingestion is neither a robust nor a frequent mechanism.#
just as hyper when given sugary or sugar-free drinks. Source: University of Arkansas for Medical sciences.
It just requires a skilled egg handler and a textured egg shell. Source: Business Insider.
and a bad diet are much bigger factors. Source: British Medical Journal. 17.)) Lightning does strike twice.
but through hunting of monkeys for food that led to blood-to-blood contact. SOURCE:
it just heats food up. In fact only a few types of radiation cause cancer, and these depend on the dose#just like radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer
It s a myth that Mcdonald s burgers don t rot. Actually they will rot given the right conditions#water and warmth for the microbes that break the food down.
SOURCE: Business Insider. 34.)) Shaving your hair doesn t make it thicker, it just makes it feel coarser for a time.
) Chewing gum does not take seven years to digest. Actually, we won t digest it at all, but the body passes it normally, within several hours.
#oemy Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles#is an easy way to remember the planets (just keep in mind that Pluto has been demoted to a dwarf planet.
7. Eat breakfast. Eating breakfast has been proven to improve concentration, problem solving ability, mental performance, memory, and mood.
Breakfast is the first chance the body has to refuel its glucose levels after eight to 12 hours without a meal.
Glucose is the brain s main energy source. 8. Use Your Body to Help You Learn.
Stay away from Sugar. Any simple carbohydratessuch as pasta, sugars, white bread and potato chipscan make you tired and lethargic.
Sometimes called the#oesugar blues##this sluggish feeling makes it hard to think clearly. It results from the insulin rushing into the bloodstream to counteract the sugar rush. 11.
Cultivate Your Emotional Intelligence. It s not enough to have a high IQ. High IQ is just potential.
Some of the foods highest in antioxidants include: prunes, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, garlic, kale, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, and raspberries.
Growup founders Kate Hofman and Tom Webster built the Kickstarter-funded farm to demonstrate the possibilities of aquaponic farmingwhere wastewater from fish tanks is turned into nutrients (with a little help from microbacteria) that fertilize plants
but the Kickstarter page assures us that the vegetables (the box can grow salads, herbs,
Since the roots of the plants absorb the nutrients from the water, the leaves and fruits (the bits we eat) are clean,
#oewe see aquaponic technology as a commercially viable way of growing food in cities, #says Hofman.#
#Sahara Forest Project multi-technology synergy to grow food in the desert Revegetation and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
The Sahara Forest Project in Qatar is putting together a number of different systems in a complex project intended to#oeproduce food,
food, energy, and clean water.##oethe seawater, pumped from the nearby Persian gulf, is the system s lifeblood.
with the leftovers from that process going to make animal feed. Some of it is transformed into fresh water by a solar-powered desalination unit.
Growing our food on vertical farms or under radical new lighting systems may be key to ensuring they have enough to eat.
Pics) What s for dinner? For that matter, what s to eat, full stop? In a few decades time, that second question may become pressing.
Mankind s awareness of our food supplies has been heightened by massive crop failures due to millennial level floods, protracted droughts,
and numerous food-borne disease outbreaks caused by microbes such as salmonella, E coli strain 0157, toxoplasma and listeria.
Consumers the world over now demand to know where their food comes from and how it is produced.
or is it causing irreparable damage to the environment that will eventually turn today s serious problem of today into a food crisis of epic proportions in the near future?
and for a time flourished in concert with the fields that provided their sustenance. Yet despite the invention of farming, eventually all of these early cities fell into disrepair,
Food and drinking water would be even scarcer than in many of today s developing cities.
Within just the past 10 years, an increasing interest in city farming has been paralleled by the creation of the slow food and locallly sourced, or#oelocavore#movements
Collectively, these examples show the validity of growing food in the city. Not only could be they be carried out efficiently such as rooftop greenhouses giving much higher yields than outdoor farms
In Cuba, food shortages created organoponicos growing food for city dwellers in spare plots. Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand
Urban agriculture has the potential to become so pervasive within our cities that by the year 2050 they may be able to provide its citizens with up to 50%of the food they consume.
The experimental buildings illustrated here often tend to be characterised by delicacy. They increasingly move from older forms of a static, rigid world into the dynamic and sensitive qualities of a living metabolism.
#Insect-eating is the future of food Insects may be the food of the future. In Western societies, eating insects is considered disgusting or even primitive.
But 2 billion people elsewhere consume insects on a regular basis. According to a report released last month by the UN, the benefits of using insects as food is so great that it is high time we convert the other 5 billion people into insect-eaters.
Who eats insects? As it turns out, at least two billion people actively consume insects as part of their diets.
In the Democratic republic of the congo, caterpillars are abundantly available all year round in markets. A quick Google search tells us that caterpillars have a nutty (to be more specific enoki-pine nutty)
Globally, beetles and caterpillars are consumed as much as all other edible insects taken together. But bees (as my brother can attest to),
While two billion people are perfectly fine with eating insects, the remaining five billion are mostly on the opposite end of the#oelike spectrum.#
The disconnect, perhaps unsurprisingly, stems from the westernisation of diets and cultures. Why do most of us find eating insects disgusting?
Native american tribes, for instance, had a long history of eating insects. But as Western cultures began to interact with
In their eyes, eating insects was considered primitive. Some indigenous groups in Sub-saharan africa were afflicted similarly#nd much more recently too.
a form of malnutrition caused by protein deficiency in the diet, grasshoppers offered a welcome source of protein.
are insect-eaters too, albeit unknowing ones, at the tune of#oetwo pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs each year.#
#Even more fascinating is that we are actually eating them as part of lunch and dinner. And the FDA knows all about it!
canned fruit juices can contain a maggot for every 250 millimetres; 10 grams of hops can be the home for 2, 500 aphids...
and will require that we produce twice as much food than we do today. Now factor in the rise of the middle class, with its subsequent demand for protein,
and it becomes vividly clear that our current food production systems will be taken by storm very soon.
Last month, the UN released a comprehensive 185-page document advocating the rearing of edible insects to be used as food by humans
points out that#oeinsects are untapped pretty much for their potential for food, and especially for feed.#
#Why are insects so good? They have a high nutritional value, their cultivation is environmentally friendlier,
You may be surprised to learn that insects are#oea highly nutritious and healthy food source with high fat, protein, vitamin, fiber and mineral content.#
#That s a balanced diet for humans right there! And when used as animal feed, insect-based feeds are comparable to the popular soy-based or fishmeal formula,
currently used today. The Economist has a great graphic that showcases how#oegreen#insect cultivation exactly is as well.
The#oegreen#benefits stem from the ratio of amount of food insects will eventually produce to the amount of food they consume.
insects are much much more efficient a food source:##oethe bigger the beast, the more food, land and water is needed to produce the final edible product,
resulting in higher greenhouse-gas emissions. A cow takes 8 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of beef,
but only 40%of the cow can be eaten. Crickets require just 1. 7 kg of food to produce 1 kg of meat,
and 80%is considered edible.##Insects also emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia than cattle or pigs and require less land for rearing.
Eating bees is well worth being proud of. Also, I m a pescatarian so#)So, would you eat insects
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and herbs indoors in nutrient-rich vats. His business, in central Accra, is now booming.#
I m making a bigger difference in the lives of others by applying my knowledge and capital to food production,
While it s true that Sub-saharan africa as a whole still leads the world in poverty and food insecurity rates,
food production now outpaces population growth. In Ghana, for instance, farm output has jumped by 5 percent every year for the past 20 years,
Even infamously food-insecure Malawi and Ethiopia now grow record amounts of crops and even export surpluses to their neighbors.
Against the new reality, international food agencies that spent decades proclaiming Africa s inevitable doom are being forced to shift their rhetoric.
including the Gates Foundation, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Columbia University s Earth Institute,
and increasingly essential to a sustainable food economy for the entire world. 1. More Africans now live in cities Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing region on the planet.
Africa s city dwellers spend roughly half their incomes on food, and as their ranks have grown#y 4 percent per year#mall farmers located on the urban perimeters have responded,
offering food that s cheaper and fresher than what gets trucked in from further out.#
and he walks the walk by operating his own chicken farms. In Uganda, former vice president Gilbert Bukenya has promoted cattle ownership
and herbs are up to eight times those of traditional farms, and the plants grow faster. More rapid maturation in turn means a faster turnaround on his investment.
Cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, commands double what it did in the 1990s, which means the farmers in Ghana who grow it are together collecting $2 billion annually.
Africa s#oeforgotten#crops, including cassava, sunflower seeds, and cowpeas, have in the last two decades rapidly expanded in production, bringing unexpected benefits.#
a protein-rich root that in Latin america goes by the name manioc or tapioca and
Dried cassava is increasingly being turned into an easily stored flour called gari in West Africa, that is convenient to cook
Food brokers, for instance, can aggregate the efforts of small holders quickly and inexpensively; what s more, much of the software they use to do that is designed by and for African programmers.
Multinational food broker VP Group regularly buys from about 5000 small farms near Nairobi. Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,
In the mid-2000s, Uganda s largest cooking oil company, the Mukwano Group, rapidly enlisted 100 000 small farmers to grow sunflower seeds by using text messaging
In the last decade, sunflower seed production has tripled more than.##oefarm radio#is another vital channel for agricultural innovation.
European opposition to GM food remains high, and U s. donors, such as the Gates Foundation, have been reluctant to promote the bioengineering of African crops.
too. 7. Government support for food producers is getting better Everyone agrees that African farmers remain heavily inhibited by poor governance.
many African governments ease the importation of foreign-grown food. In Ghana, for instance, canned tomato paste from Italy, frozen chickens from Brazil,
and rice from Thailand can be sold below cost, killing local production. The Italian, Brazilian, and Thai governments subsidize those goods,
Trade in foodstuffs between neighboring African countries is hampered often by misguided government rules. In Tanzania, ham-handed bans on exports of some staples have resulted in food rotting in the fields.
But government aid to farmers is improving. Kenya s support for small dairy farms is an encouraging example.
and South Sudan, where local shortages of food can be severe and frequent. With more customers now within easier reach,
#oeuganda is now a food basket for East Africa, #stated the October 2012 World bank report#oeafrica Can Feed Africa.#
#8. Women are getting better educated, and that will lead to better farm outcomes In Sub-saharan africa,
because women produce up to 80 percent of the region s food. At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale
Jessica Sakwa and her husband, Ken, run a peanut and cowpea farm in eastern Uganda.
The United nations Food and agriculture organization has caught the spirit, introducing a worldwide campaign around#oeclimate-smart agriculture.##Climate change can also be managed by greater reliance on drought-tolerant crops.
and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models. The best hedge against potential food shortages created by climate change?
Bringing Africa s hundreds of millions of hectares of fertile unused farmland into production. 10.
and by the early 1960s, they supplied 8 percent of the world s tradable food.
A remaining challenge is the equitable distribution of food. Part of the solution lies in improved links between African countries whose postcolonial borders often don t make geographic sense and place artificial barriers between areas of surplus food production and areas of deficit.
In a recent paper Steven Haggblade identifies#oebreadbasket#regions that routinely produce food surpluses and finds that most are close to areas that must import food.
Kenya, for instance, leads East Africa in dairy and wheat production, while neighboring Uganda produces surpluses of maize and other staples;
yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,
Haggblade reports#s more commerce between the food-rich and the food-poor. To be sure, hunger remains a specter in Africa for a small but significant minority of people.
There continue to be hunger seasons and hunger zones. But for many Africans, the experience of hunger is shifting#nd in the right direction.
in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.
And yet collective action has ended now largely Malawi s seasonal food shortages. The government began giving farm families such as the Bairds a discount on the purchase of fertilizer and hybrid seeds
whether Sub-saharan africa can produce enough food to feed its people. It can#nd can feed some of the rest of the world too.
Researchers from UCLA now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans.
or microbiota, in the gut can affect the brain carries significant implications for future research that could point the way toward dietary
fiber-based diets have a different composition of their microbiota, or gut environment, than people who eat the more typical Western diet that is high in fat and carbohydrates,
whether repeated courses of antibiotics can affect the brain, as some have speculated. Antibiotics are used extensively in neonatal intensive care units and in childhood respiratory tract infections,
The study was funded by Danone Research. Mayer has served on the company s scientific advisory board. Three of the study authors (Denis Guyonnet, Sophie Legrain-Raspaud and Beatrice Trotin) are employed by Danone Research
and were involved in the planning and execution of the study (providing the products) but had no role in the analysis or interpretation of the results.
So have the number of people who don t have safe drinking water, and the number of mothers who die during childbirth.
That leads to open defecation and other problems#nd 1. 5 million children who die each year from contaminated food and water.
Geneticists can develop new seeds that help farmers grow more nutritious food and raise their incomes.
and food supplies, killing 1. 5 million children a year. Unfortunately, today s toilets require complex sewer infrastructure that won t work in many of these settings.
to watch their wings flap faster!..With a little duct tape and a couple coats of paint,
Meals on wheels!..Kissing a giraffe is intimidating, even for blind people!..Hose heads rule!..
So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
For the nonprofit, conserving America s rivers meant growing America s barley, one of the primary ingredients in one of our favorite cold beverages
and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day.#
#oeas a brewer, we know that the area we can have the biggest impact in reducing water usage is within the agricultural supply chain,
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#13%of calories consumed by Americans comes from added sugars Men consumed more sugar per day (an average of 335 calories) than women (239.
Maple syrup. Molasses. High fructose corn syrup. These are all#oeadded sugars, #that you are probably eating
and drinking way too much of them. So says the latest report from the U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers at the CDC s National Center for Health Statistics examined survey data from thousands of American adults to figure out
whether we re following the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. These guidelines advise us to limit our total intake of added sugars,
fats and other#oediscretionary calories#to between 5%and 15%of total calories consumed every day.
It should come as no surprise that Americans as a whole are blowing past the 15%limit.
the new report finds that from 2005 to 2010 we got 13%of our total calories from added sugar alone, according to the CDC report.
because sugar is full of calories that cause us to gain weight, but because sugary items often displace fruits,
vegetables and other foods that contain essential nutrients. Overall, men consumed more sugar per day (an average of 335 calories) than women (239), the researchers found.
But as a percentage of total calories consumed per day, men and women were pretty even#12.7%vs. 13.2%.
%Adults tended to eat the most sugar in their 20s and 30s with consumption falling steadily over time.
For instance, men between 20 and 39 ate and drank 397 calories of added sugar per day, on average,
while men in their 40s and 50s consumed an average of 338 such calories per day and men in the 60+crowd consumed 224 calories of added sugar daily.
For both men and women, added sugar s contribution to total calories fell steadily from the 14%range to the 11%range.
African americans got more of their calories from added sugars#14.5%for men and 15.2%for women than whites (12.8%for men, 13.2%for women) or Mexican Americans (12.9%for men, 12.6%for women.
the bigger the role that added sugars played in their diets. Women in the lowest income category got 15.7%of their calories from sugar,
compared with 13.4%for women in the middle income category and 11.6%for women with the highest incomes.
%Although sugar-sweetened soda is the single biggest source of added sugars in the American diet,
beverages overall accounted for only one-third of added sugars consumed by adults, compared with two-thirds from food.
In addition, about 67%of added sugars from food were eaten at home, along with 58%of added sugars from drinks.
The researchers noted some differences between their findings for adults and what other studies have reported about children and teens.
For example, the contribution of added sugars to total daily calories was comparable for black and white children and lower for Mexican-American children.
And, children and teens of all income levels get the same proportion of daily calories from added sugars.
Added sugars do not include the sugars that occur naturally in fruit and milk. As the name implies
added sugars are used as ingredients in prepared and processed foods and drinks. For the sake of the analysis, other forms of added sugar included brown sugar, raw sugar corn syrup, corn syrup solids, malt syrup, pancake syrup, fructose sweetener, liquid
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