Thieves in Germany have absconded with about 5. 5 tons (5 metric tons) of Nutella the spreadable chocolate-hazelnut treat beloved by children (and more than a few adults) all over the world the Associated press reports.
Property owners in Maine have reported a startling increase in the theft of maple sap the sweet liquid that's used to make maple syrup the Montreal Gazette reports.
It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup so even though syrup is valued at about $50 per gallon it would take a lot of work to produce a little maple syrup aka liquid gold.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense you need a certain amount of trees to make this worth it
Costly though it may be the tapping of maple trees on private property pales in comparison to last year's heist of $18 million worth of refined maple syrup from a Quebec warehouse according to the New york times. The theft dealt a crushing
blow to Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. Yes Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup
since the Canadian product dominates the global market.)It s like OPEC Simon Trã panier acting general manager of the Federation of Quebec Maple syrup Producers told the Times.
We're not producing all the maple syrup in the world. But by producing 70 to 78 percent we have the ability to adjust the quantity that is in the marketplace.
Thieves are getting more brazen in acting upon their sugar cravings: In the small town of Calais Maine sap bandits put taps into the maple trees in the town's cemetery igniting outrage among the local citizenry.
That was the first year they'd been put in trees at the cemetery and that's
It had the texture of hot dogs with match heads ground in he said. Living next to hydrothermal vents that spew toxic water rich in heavy metals
Marine biologist Win Watson recalls annual Make a Dish from Your Animal dinners at the Woods Hole Oceanic Institution in Woods Hole Mass. during the 1970s and 1980s.
Terrie Williams a professor at the University of California Santa cruz recalls a gin and tonic made with Antarctic glacier ice.
Climate scientists who pull up ice cores stretching back 100000 years regularly plunk broken core pieces into their drinks.
The cubes fizz like soda as they melt because of compressed gas bubbles trapped in the buried ice.
and was more viscous than tap water Lollar said. Not so-good eats Lollar is hunting for even older water
Mammoth straddles the line between digestible and disgusting. The stories of people eating mammoth go back more than 100 years
but are more legend than truth. That's because the animals emerge from their icy tombs looking like furry freezer-burned jerky thanks to decomposition
At least one apocryphal but unconfirmed tale of mammoth eating comes from the National geographic Explorer's Club annual dinner
Photos of Exotic Food However one true tale of a Pleistocene repast comes from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Paleontologist Dale Guthrie
The meat was had tough and a strong aroma Guthrie wrote in the book Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe:
Edible bugs Eating insects might also fall into the not good category for many Western scientists.
Of course meals from bugs are neither new nor unusual outside of modern Western cultures. Thus many researchers make an effort to overcome their fear of eating bugs
when they travel. I felt both repulsed and attracted by the opportunity to chow down on our study organisms said Nalini Nadkarni an ecologist at the University of Utah.
The group's local assistants would collect beetle larvae during the day and roast them at night.
They would singe the fur off in the fire and then skin out the meat.
and out delicious snack according to Joe Sapp an ecology graduate student at the University of California Santa cruz. They are full of nectar
and taste like candy he said. But pop into any in U s. entomology department and one will find plenty of advocates for bug eating.
As a corn entomologist one of my suggestions to corn growers who were plagued by insects was to eat them.
So Turpin concocted corn fritters laced with European corn borers for an insect-cooking demonstration. Edible Bugs to Help Fight World Hunger Turpin also enthusiastically eats raw insects.
He recalls biting down on a raw grub for a TV SHOW on eating insects the cameraman fainted
when juice squirted out. After we revived him we did a second take this time without incident Turpin said.
Also technically a bug eater is Barry Marshall a Nobel prize laureate. Marshall drank a culture containing the microbe H. pylori to prove the bacteria cause stomach ulcers.
Seibel's tried vampire squid tastes like little more than slimy salt water and jumbo squid debating at first
Solving radial drift Young star systems are a mess of dust and debris. Conventional planet-forming theory posits that the dust eventually sticks together
Chicken-and-egg problem There is a chicken -and-egg problem that is bothering some astronomers: How did that massive mysterious object in Oph IRS 48 form?
One question for the future is whether the sort of trapping processes that we see in this object would also be present at earlier times
or jars used to hold wine and other designs such as two peacocks flanking an amphora a dove and a partridge and one amphora with a pomegranate and a lemonlike fruit inside.
Though other areas of the site showed evidence of the practice of Christianity the public building seemed to have no religious affiliation.
Nearby Christian settlements include the churches at Abu Hof in the Lahav Forest and a monastery at Givot Bar.
and severity increased during the period between 6000 and 3000 years ago coinciding with the spread of the highly flammable black spruce (Picea mariana).
#Sugar Mist Makes Veggies More Palatable to Kids BOSTON A light mist of sugar could help the broccoli
In preliminary studies preschoolers who were served lightly sweetened vegetables (sprayed with a mist of sugar) at lunchtime ate more of the healthy foods compared to those who were served unsweetened vegetables.
Although the researchers tested other ways to mask the vegetables'bitterness including various salts plain sugar worked the best.
Adding such a small amount of sugar means the vegetables do not taste markedly sweet said study researcher Valerie Duffy a professor at the University of Connecticut's Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Rather serving the sugar-enhanced veggies a few times should be enough to get children accustomed to eating them.
The researchers added about a half a teaspoon of sugar which has a mere 8 calories to three-fourths of a cup of vegetables.
Parents should know it takes time for children to acquire a taste for new foods
It can sometimes take a dozen tries before kids learn to like a new food the USDA says.
The algae look like little petri dishes or footballs depending on the species and spend most of their lives drifting on currents.
A new study finds that bees use simple logical steps to learn from other bees which flowers hold the sweetest nectar.
Learning to bee Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov became famous in the early 1900s for discovering that dogs could be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell they associated with food.
He also found that he could get dogs to drool at a completely unrelated stimulus they'd never seen alongside food.
which they in turn associated with food. 10 Really Weird Animal Discoveries Dawson and her colleagues thought that bees might be taking a similar series of logical steps.
In some cases the model bees were marking platforms filled with sweet sugar water. In other cases the model bees were perched on platforms filled with quinine the ingredient that makes tonic water bitter.
This taught the bees to associate their comrades with either a sweet reward or a bitter taste.
Further investigation and a little warm water revealed what was actually inside the candy bar wrappers.
As the chocolate melted away officials discovered 583 bars of ivory all together weighing 75 lbs.
Also known as sulfur mustard the compound is named for its distinctive mustard smell which has also been compared to horseradish.
How to Make a Meal Everyone Can Eat What happens when a vegan a person on the Paleo diet
and a gluten-free eater sit down together to a Thanksgiving dinner? It sounds like the intro to a joke
but it's a real conundrum for the many people who have guests and loved ones with multiple dietary restrictions.
Though it can be tough to plan a meal in which every guest can eat everything there are several strategies that can make Turkey Day dining healthy and nutritious for everyone experts say.
Creating a meal with lots of side dishes that emphasize fruits and veggies can also make the Thanksgiving menu a crowd-pleaser Cassie said.
10 Tips for Sticking to Healthy Portions Simple meals Those who follow the Paleo diet typically shun grains sugars dairy
and processed foods and instead try to eat foods that ancient hunter-gatherers would have eaten before the agricultural revolution.
Those foods usually include fish wild game and poultry as well as fruits vegetables and eggs. Some on the diet also eat nuts.
For those folks simple staples such as green-bean casserole or mashed cauliflower work well. The green beans can be made with a healthy serving of coconut oil and homemade mushroom soup.
Turkey is an easy staple that Paleo dieters can enjoy while getting adequate protein and fat Cassie told Livescience.
Other dishes can be modified to make them Paleo-friendly. For instance sweet-potato casserole can be made without the marshmallows and cream.
Carb-conscious Many people (including people on the Paleo diet) now follow a gluten-free diet avoiding any foods that contain the protein gluten.
Still others are struggling with type 2 diabetes and must stick to a low-carb diet as a result.
For all these groups it's best to steer clear of white flour as a thickener
but either coconut or almond flour can be used as a substitute. For dessert make a coconut-milk pumpkin custard instead of a pie she said.
And for those who eat nuts one option is to make the crust out of nuts Franziska Spritzler a registered dietitian
and diabetes educator who runs lowcarbdietitian. com wrote in an email. Having some unsweetened whipped cream on the side can provide a satisfying low-carb treat she said.
Even without the sweet treats there are plenty of other options on the traditional Thanksgiving table for the carb-conscious.
Green beans salad and other low-carb vegetables are important to consume because they provide fiber
and phytonutrients (plant nutrients) that have beneficial health effects. Side dishes Vegetarians don't eat meat or fish and vegans typically avoid all animal products
but they too can enjoy green beans sweet potatoes cranberry sauce and other side dishes. The main thing is just keeping your side dishes free of any type of meat Cassie said.
For the person who's not vegetarian they can get plenty of protein from the turkey.
Many guests are also happy to bring a dish to share which can ensure that everyone eats happily Cassie said.
And before pulling out all the stops in a gluten-free low-carb vegan Paleo Thanksgiving check in with your guests as well Spritzler said Some low-carbers may choose to only eat the turkey
and vegetables anyway so it's a good idea to ask if they'd be interested in low-carb versions of their favorites before preparing them Spritzler said.
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#Thanksgiving Trauma: The 7 Strangest Holiday ER Visits The holidays are a time of joy and giving thanks.
But like any occasion that involves families gathering to enjoy good food and each other's company accidents can happen.
From deep-fryer burns to in-law anxiety here are some of the most notable: 1. Turkey troubles Nothing says Thanksgiving like cooking an obscenely large farm bird.
Perhaps it's not surprising then that emergency rooms see a lot of fowl-related injuries on Turkey Day.
Sometimes cooks slip on their turkeys and hit their heads he added. 2. Carving catastrophes What happens when you mix slightly inebriated people with carving knives?
And when people eat too quickly food can get lodged in their throats especially turkey
so dry. 4. Contaminated grub Beware of food poisoning. It's important to keep refrigerated items cold especially perishable items said Dr. Mike Patrick an emergency pediatrician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio.
Food allergies also rear their ugly heads at the holidays. Patrick said he sees a lot of children in anaphylactic shock around Thanksgiving
because they have eaten foods prepared by others unfamiliar with their dietary restrictions. Anaphylactic shock is a severe allergic reaction that can be life threatening.
5. Fowl Play Before or after the big meal families and friends often like to let off steam by playing sports
Multiple meats were the norm including unheard-of-today mincemeat pie. Gradually as Thanksgiving mythology became codified during the late 1800s turkey took its place at the head of the table.
But some of the side dishes eaten in Thanksgiving's early days rarely make an appearance now.
and recipes from early Thanksgivings provided to Livescience by food writer Cynthia Bertelsen who blogs at Gherkins & Tomatoes.
Maybe these old-fashioned meals will inspire something new on your table this year. Read More:
The History of the Thanksgiving Menu Pies Pies Pies The french Cook a 1653 translation of major French cookbook Le Vrai Cuisinier Franã§ois including this pumpkin pie recipe
which illustrates a rather more laissez-faire method of cooking instruction than seen today: Â Tourte of pumpkin-Â Boile it with good milk pass it through a straining pan very thick
and mix it with sugar butter a little salt and if you will stamped a few almonds;
If crust isn't your thing the 1796 American Cookery has covered you with several options for pompkin pudding:
No. 1 One quart stewed and strained pompkin 3 pints milk 6 beaten eggs sugar mace nutmeg
and ginger laid in to paste and baked in dishes three quarters of an hour.
No. 2. One quart of milk 1 pint pompkin 4 eggs molasses allspice and ginger in a crust make 1 hour.
Menu madness Menus for Thanksgiving Dinners from American Cookery magazine November 1921: I Three-Course Dinner for Small Family in Servantless House:
Roast Chicken stuffed with Chopped Celery and Oysters Baked Sweet potatoes Boiled Onions  Salad (Fine chopped apples and nuts in red apple cups) Cream Dressing  Mince or Squash pie a la mode
Sweet cider Coffee  II A Simple Company Dinner of Six Courses  Celery Clam Bouillon Saltines Ripe olives  Roast Chestnut-Stuffed Turkey
Giblet Sauce Buttered Asparagus Glazed Sweet potatoes Moulded Cranberry Jelly  Chicken salad in Salad Rolls  Thanksgiving Pudding Hard sauce  Chocolate ice cream Strawberry Sauce Â
Assorted Fruit Coffee  III A Formal Company Dinner. Eight Courses Curled Celery Oyster Soup Bread Sticks Radish Rosettes  Turbans of Flounder Hollandaise Sauce Potato Straws Olives Crusty Rolls
Salted Nuts  Capon a la Creme (Stuffing of Potatoes Mushrooms Chestnuts etc. Mashed Potatoes Green pea Timbales Cranberry sauce  Sweet cider Frappe  Venison Steaks Currant jelly Sauce Baked Parsnips  Apple
-and-Grape Salad  Macaroon Pudding Frozen Mince pie Hot chocolate Sauce  Glaceed Walnuts Fruit Black Coffee  IV Elaborate Formal Dinner.
Ten Courses Fruit cocktail Oysters on Half-shell Brown bread-and-Butter Sandwiches Quartered Lemons  Clear Bouillon Oysterettes Radishes Celery  Boiled Halibut Potato
Balls in Parsley Sauce Sweet pickles  Cauliflower au Gratin  Braised Turkey or Capon Bread Stuffing Giblet Gravy Duchesse Potatoes Spinach Â
Crystallized ginger Salted Pecans Pineapple Fritters Lemon Sauce  Granite of Cider and Apples  Cutlets of Duck with Chopped Celery  Orange Salad Â
Pumpkin pie Raisin and Cranberry Tarts Chocolate Parfait Almond Cakes  Nuts Raisins Bonbons Candied Orange peel Black Coffee  Thanksgiving menu from Fannie
Farmer s 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Oyster Soup Crisp Crackers Celery Salted Almonds Roast Turkey Cranberry Jelly Mashed Potatoes Onions in Cream Squash Chicken Pie Fruit Pudding Sterling
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#The 10 Weirdest Spills in Naturefrom molasses to rubber ducks some strange substances have spilled into waterways and onto roadways.
Here are some of the highlights. A molasses pipeline in Honolulu Harbor Hawaii last week was pumping the syrupy substance onto a ship
when it sprung a leak dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of the goo into the ocean.
The sugary fluid which has sunk to the bottom has killed thousands of fish attracting sharks and other scavengers.
It's not the first molasses mishap. A truck in Wagontire Ore. swerved to avoid a deer in 2008 spilling hundreds of gallons of molasses over the highway.
And in 1919 during the Boston Molasses Disaster a tank carrying 2. 5 million gallons of molasses burst flooding the city's streets and killing 21 people.
The tasty golden beverage has baptized highways numerous times. In 2012 alone trucks and tractor-trailers spilled 77000 lbs.
35000 kilograms) of Budweiser onto a Maryland interstate 55000 lbs. 25000 kg) of Heineken and Amstel Light on Interstate-95 and 43000 lbs.
19500 kg) of beer on a North carolina interstate Huffington Post reported. In 2004 a whale carcass exploded
while being transported from a beach where it died to a laboratory in the Taiwanese city of Tainan according to BBC News. Gas buildup inside the decomposing cetacean was thought to be responsible for the explosion
which took 13 hours and 50 workers to clean up. When a truck carrying construction glue collided with a bus in Chengdu City China it dowsed the street with its sticky contents.
Firefighters tried unsuccessfully to remove the glue by diluting it with water guns and some observers even got stuck in it.
The adhesive was dissolved finally using chemicals. A truck carrying 8000 gallons (more than 30000 liters) of a Japanese synthetic blood drink inspired by the HBO series True Blood caused a gory mess
when it hit a curb and crashed in Sugar Land Texas in 2008 Weburbanist. com reported.
The year before in Oregon 4000 of real pig blood spilled from a truck carting animal waste from a processing plant.
In 1992 29000 rubber duck toys being shipped from China to the U s. company The First Years Inc washed overboard in the Pacific ocean the Daily mail reported.
Some 10000 of the duckies floated northward while the remainder took a southerly route. They have washed up in Hawaii Australia and even the Arctic.
In the past few years honeybees have spilled onto highways in Montana Canada and California where 10 million to 16 million angry buzzers responded by stinging firefighters police and drivers.
Fortunately the trucking company swept up the mess before it rained and became a smelly milky mess.
In 2000 millions of the popular LEGO plastic toys went for a swim when a ship hit by a rogue wave dumped a container full of them overboard.
Suppose you re baking Christmas goodies for friends and family this year and you have triangles on your mind.
(or Leonardo of Pisa) in the context of rabbits who could perform multiplication rapidly. They re tricky to spot in Pascal s triangle
We d like to pick 2 of them to use in our cooking. How many possible choices can we make?
the poppy seeds that make a grain of sand the grains of sand that would cover the length of a stadium
Chris Remien a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis uses math to better understand how biological markers relate to the diets of animals
and how they metabolize nutrients and toxins. The food and water animals consume leave chemical signatures (biomarkers) in their tissues;
however metabolism sometimes alters these signatures. Remien develops mathematical models to understand how metabolism can change the biomarkers.
Remien's models also help doctors estimate the extent of liver damage following overdose of acetaminophen (the active ingredient in some pain medicines) which is crucial for determining patient survival.
and so because the stable isotope ratios in drinking water get incorporated into hair a record of travel history is revealed by looking at the isotope composition of scalp hair.
We have used stable isotopes to quantify African elephant diet over time as it relates to rainfall history
and constitute a greater portion of an elephant's diet. Using carbon isotopes in hair we can see exactly how much grass these animals are eating
and how their diet changes with changes in rainfall. Similarly we have used carbon isotopes in fossil soils to determine the fraction of woody cover sites that bear hominin fossils a problem that has implications for the history of our species
whether a patient will require a liver transplant for survival. Who has had the most influence on your thinking as a researcher?
Why Some People Taste Things More Bitter It has been a mystery why some people love some vegetables like broccoli
not only people's genetic makeup that determines people's reaction to broccoli's bitter taste
but also how these genes are instructed to make taste receptors according to a new study published today (Sept. 11) in theâ American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The 7 (Other) Flavors Humans May Taste In the study 18 people with the same bitter taste genes rated the bitterness level of several beverages including broccoli juice and carrot juice.
The researchers took small samples of tissue from the participants'taste buds. Taste buds small bumps that cover the tongue contain taste receptors.
The researchers measured the amount of a molecule in the taste buds called MESSENGER RNA (mrna)
which contains instructions for making bitter taste receptors. The results showed a direct relationship between how much mrna people's cells made and their bitterness ratings of broccoli juice.
People who had the most mrna for bitter taste receptor rated the juice as most bitter.
The amount of MESSENGER RNA that taste cells choose to make may be the missing link in explaining why some people with'moderate taster'genes still are extremely sensitive to bitterness in foods
and drinks said study researcher Danielle Reed a geneticist at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
The findings shows a new level of complexity in taste perception and may ultimately lend insight into individual differences in food preferences
and dietary choices the researchers said. Although the finding has solved one mystery it has opened the door to new questions.
and does it change with diet or age? said Julie Mennella a developmental psychobiologist at Monell another researcher in the study.
The relationship between diet and mrna production remains unclear. Previous studies have shown that diet could affect the expression of genes involved in nutrient digestion and metabolism.
It might be that people with low expression of bitter receptor genes who find vegetables to taste less bitter are more likely to include them in their diet than people with high expression of these genes the researchers said.
Conversely it is possible that eating bitter vegetables may change gene expression over time the researchers said.
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#The Cloudy Science Of E-Cigarettes (ISNS)--In recent years a new type of cigarette has begun to repopulate our restaurants our subway trains and our movie theaters.
The Food and Drug Administration can't currently regulate electronic cigarettes because they don't technically contain tobacco
and they want a piece of the pie. Â But Seidman said the tobacco industry learned its lessons from selling cigarettes
#The Foods, They Are a Changin':'Know What You're Eating You probably wouldn't be surprised too to hear that our food supply has changed drastically
since the 1950s but still the changes are not always obvious. For example an ear of corn sold today at the supermarket probably doesn't look much different from
So there's a good chance that corn you're buying at the grocery store has been modified genetically in some way.
There is no law that requires food to be labeled as GMO so to the naked eye it just looks the same old corn you grew up eating at every barbecue.
The GMO topic isn't a new one. It is something that has been discussed quite a bit in recent months and thankfully so.
If the NMPF gets its way thousands of Americans will unknowingly ingest sweeteners in their morning coffee.
The foods they are a changin'.'So what can we do to protect our food supply from a profit-driven manufacturing processes?
Here are some tips: Healthy Bites appears on Myhealthnewsdaily on Wednesdays. Deborah Herlax Enos is certified a nutritionist
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