Scientists from Louisiana State university analysed samples of bran from black rice grown in the southern U s. They found boosted levels of water-soluble anthocyanin antioxidants.
such as blueberries and red peppers. They are what makes black rice black. Research suggests that the dark plant antioxidants,
Food scientist Dr Zhimin Xu said: Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries,
but with less sugar, and more fibre and Vitamin e antioxidants. If berries are used to boost health, why not black rice and black rice bran?
Especially, black rice bran would be a unique and economical material to increase consumption of health-promoting antioxidants.
Centuries ago black rice Was forbidden known as Rice in ancient China because only nobles were allowed to eat it.
Today black rice is used mainly in Asia for food decoration, noodles, sushi and desserts. But food manufacturers could potentially use black rice bran
or bran extracts to make breakfast cereals, beverages, cakes, biscuits and other foods healthier, said Dr Xu.
When rice is processed, millers remove the outer layers of the grains to produce brown rice or more refined white rice the kind most widely consumed in the West.
Brown rice is said to be more nutritious because it has higher levels of healthy Vitamin e compounds and antioxidants.
But according to Dr Xus team, varieties of rice that are black or purple in colour are healthier still.
said Davis. Obstacles include an abundance of cheap, unhealthy food, a fairly sedentary culture, and fewer opportunities for physical activities than in the past. oeat end of the day unhealthy food is said cheaper,
Davis. oeimagine if we subsidized the cost of broccoli and asparagus instead of the cost of corn?
#New Study Suggests Exposure to Pesticides Prime Cause of ADHD Organophosphate pesticides are used widely in the United states to control insects on food crops.
which are used widely in the United states to control insects on food crops. Epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi of UC Berkeley and her colleagues have been studying more than 300 Mexican American children living in the heavily agricultural Salinas Valley.
The researchers believe that most of the children in the study were exposed to the malathion through food. oeits known that food is a significant source of pesticide exposure among the general population
#Banana split On A Stick Split on the stick! We love all of the amazing and creative things that can be found on the Instructables site.
tastey and terrific Banana split On A Stick posted by supersoftdrink. As they say, oefood shouldnt suck,
even if its on a stick This dessert on a stick might have a lot of steps, but it elevates the humble banana split into art,
which is where it really belongs. LINK to all of the instructions. We skipped a bunch to show
Shove an ice cream ball on the skewer. Coat it with the chocolate shell. If its not hardening fast enough,
put it in the freezer for a minute. Slide a caramel ball onto the skewer right next to the ice cream.
Follow with a sugar drizzle, a chunk of banana, a chocolate drizzle, a fudge ball, a whipped cream rosette,
and a bit of fruit. Some people like maraschino cherries. I think theyre disgusting. I prefer fresh strawberry instead.
Serve immediately. If you need to wait a bit before serving get a nice big lump of clay and stick it on a sheet pan.
processed, and sold as sugar, no genetically-altered seeds may be planted next spring. Not until the USDA submits an environmental impact statement process that can take up to three years.
The Sierra Club, The Center for Food safety, and the Organic Seed Alliance have been trying to stop the biotech beets since 2008.
Andrew Kimbrell, the Center for Food safetys executive director, hailed Fridays decision as a major victory, hoping that oethe agency USDA will learn that their mandate is to protect farmers,
This could be a major headache for sugar beet growers and food producers. Sugar beets make up one-half of the U s. sugar supply.
This could also be a huge win in the fight against GMO foods as U s.-grown corn,
soybeans and cotton are all mostly GMO seeds. But Judge White has little concern over the impact of his decision.
and restaurants seeking an in-house source of homegrown artisanal honey. According to the BBC, the urban bees are healthier
lots of good food. oecity people like flowers. We have parks, we have balconies, we have roadside verges,
there is no more nectar for the local bees. More Honey, Lower Death rates Thanks to the veritable buffet of eating options think of it as an apiarian raw bar or cheese platter as well as Paris 10 years as a pesticide-free zone
the bees in the citys 400 and counting hives produce an average of 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of honey each year,
and the famous Tour dargent restaurant have followed all in the footsteps of the Paris Opera,
where declining rural biodiversity has made it hard out there for a pollen eater. oewe did an analysis of the honey we made here in Paris
They now need to be given final approval by the final Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA) before they can be listed on the European Seed Register.
By contrast, her research team found feral populations of herbicide-resistant canola growing along roads, near petrol stations and grocery stores, often at large distances from areas of agricultural production.
#Insects Sense Danger on Mammals Breath When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa,
When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa, they could easily gobble up some extra protein in the form of insects that happen to get in their way.
The researchers allowed a goat to feed on potted alfalfa plants infested with aphids. oestrikingly, 65 percent of the aphids in the colonies dropped to the ground right before they would have been eaten along with the plant,
or the plant-eaters breath. While a quarter of the aphids dropped when plants were shaken,
more than half fell to the ground in response to a lambs breath, the researchers report.
#Make Microwave Popcorn Using a Simple Brown Paper bag Corn is popped good food. If youve been buying microwave popcorn because of the conveniencer a belief that the bag has special popcorn enhancing powersoull want to check out this incredibly inexpensive way to make microwave popcorn at a sixth the cost of commercial bags.
Popcorn, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean oil, Salt, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Annatto Color. Contains: Fish, Milk I suppose we should all take comfort that popcorn still comes first in the ranked list before Artificial Flavors and Fish.
All youll need to follow in their footsteps is a brown paper lunch bag, bulk popcorn,
and making a mess of your microwave, and toss it in the microwave for a minute and a half.
and butter to tasteheck out their full guide at the link below for some creative popcorn seasoning ideas.
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where governments subsidize the cost of food. The impact will be developed less in countries, where the price of products such as bread includes costs besides grain, such as packaging and marketing.
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#Zimbabwean Farmer Shocked As Cow Gives Birth To A Pig Could it be. Satan? A Zimbabwean farmer was left stunned
#Saving the Planet by Eating Insects and Other Creepy Crawlies A Chinese woman selling scorpions on stick in Beijing,
where the delicacy is fried in cooking oil. Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not mean cutting back on meat, according to new research:
the trick may be to switch our diet to insects and other creepy-crawlies. The raising of livestock such as cows, pigs and sheep occupies two-thirds of the worlds farmland
and generates 20%of all the greenhouse gases driving global warming. As a result, the United nations and senior figures want to reduce the amount of meat we eat
and the search is on for alternatives. A policy paper on the eating of insects is being considered formally by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The FAO held a meeting on the theme in Thailand in 2008 and there are plans for a world congress in 2013.
an entomologist at Wageningen University in The netherlands and the author of the UN paper, says eating insects has advantages. oethere is a meat crisis,
and we know people are consuming more meat. Twenty years ago the average was 20kg,
Van Huis is an enthusiast for eating insects but given his role as a consultant to the FAO,
Grasshoppers The advantages of this diet include insects high levels of protein, vitamin and mineral content.
He acknowledges that in the west eating insects is a hard sell: oeit is very important how you prepare them,
Durst says the FAOS priority will be to boost the eating of insects where this is already accepted
insects could be used to feed farmed animals such as chicken and fish which eat them naturally.
oewere looking at ways of grinding the meat into some sort of patty, which would be more recognisable to western palates.
One of the few suppliers of insects for human consumption in the UK is Paul Cook,
Cook is convinced not they will ever become more than a novelty. oethey are in the fun element But
LOCAL TREATS Thailand Dishes include fried giant red ants, crickets and June beetles Colombia oefat-bottomed ants are a popular snack,
fried and salted Papua new guinea Sago grubs in banana leaves are a local delicacy Ghana Winged termites are collected and fried, roasted,
or made into bread Japan Dishes include aquatic fly larvae in sugar and candied grasshoppers Mexico The agave worm is eaten on tortillas,
and grasshoppers are toasted Cambodia Deep-fried tarantulas are popular with locals and tourists South africa Locusts lend interest to the staple dish of cornmeal porridge Australia Witchetty grubs are a traditional part of the Aboriginal diet Via Guardian Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati
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#Milk from the Offspring of a Cloned Cow Being sold in British Stores A British dairy farmer said he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone Milk from the offspring of a cloned cow is being sold in British shops,
The Food Standards Agency is investigating the claim made by an anonymous British dairy farmer. The FSA said it believed that the practice of selling milk from cloned cows
Earlier this month the European parliament voted to ban the sale of meat and dairy products from clones and their offspring.
Under European law, foodstuffs produced from cloned animals must pass a safety evaluation and get approval before they are marketed.
The FSA, the body responsible for assessing so-called novel foods said it had made not any authorisations nor been asked to do so.
The cows being used to produce the milk started life in the United states as embryos created from the eggs of cloned cows and the sperm of normal bulls.
oebased on the best available evidence, there are no food safety concerns surrounding consumption of products from healthy clones or their offspring.
but saddled with mortgages that prevent them from leaving. oeim sort of in a pickle, Tiffany said with an amused smile before resuming his job search at a computer terminal in the citys One-Stop Employment Center. oeim stuck in a home that
800 sandwiches and salads every 60 seconds in the U s. How many of its customers have heard ever of its founder, Fred Deluca,
Every day, countless shoppers buy products made by Dole food Company, the worlds largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers as well as packaged and frozen foods.
Under Mathiles direction, Iams became a world leader in premium dog and cat nutrition. In 1999, the Mathile family sold Iams to Procter & gamble for $2. 3 billion.
He founded The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition, a nonprofit committed to improving the nutritional health of children around the world.
and chairman of Chick-fil-A. Cathy entered the restaurant business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill (later renamed The Dwarf House).
Through the years, that restaurant prospered and led Cathy to further expand his business. In 1967, Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant.
Today, Chick-fil-A is the second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the U s. with more than $3. 2 billion in sales in 2009.
As of February 2010, there are more than 1, 480 Chick-fil-A restaurants in 38 states and Washington,
D c. Cathy has led Chick-fil-A on an amazing record of 42 consecutive years of annual sales increases.
$1 billion William Kellogg got his start in the retail business as a buyer for Federated Department stores.
oemeat sugar) and the 1894 diary of a woman traveling east from Oregon by wagon.
Which Came First The Chicken or the Egg Which came first the chicken or the egg?
One of the most puzzling and famous life questions has stumped people for generations. Its the question of which came first:
the chicken or the egg? In order for there to be an egg, a chicken would have had to lay it.
In order for there to be a chicken, it would have had to hatch from an egg.
It seems as though either answer could be the correct answer; until now. Dr. Colin Freeman from Sheffield University along with colleagues from Warwick University have figured it all out.
Their research project originally aimed to figure out how animals make eggshells because its an extraordinarily strong yet lightweight material that no human has been able to replicate,
and the researchers hoped to learn how to develop a manmade equivalent by learning about the way animals make eggshells.
Chickens were chosen as their test subjects simply because the protein was easy to study. The study began
and it took weeks for HECTOR to figure out how chickens make eggshells. When HECTOR finally arrived at a conclusion,
After years and years of debate, it was determined finally that the chicken came before the egg. oeit had long been suspected that the egg came first,
but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,
that exists only in a chickens ovaries and is vital to eggshell formation in chickens.
The protein acts as an ongoing builder that pieces microscopic parts of the shell together by converting calcium carbonate into calcite crystals.
which only exists in chickens, so the end result is that the chicken came first.
The protein was discovered before this research project, but HECTOR made it easier for the researchers to observe the process oein microscopic detail,
So what does this mean for those who always thought the egg came first? Freeman and his colleagues referred to some theories that suggest that chickens oeancestors evolved to create hard eggs around the time of the dinosaurs.
In addition to answering the question that has burdened the human race for ages, the results of this study could be advantageous in the medical field
#The Astonishing Amount of Junk Food One Child Eats Per year in the UK One years worth of junk food consumed by children in the UK.
This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of ice cream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year.
It is perhaps unsurprising then that todays children have been labeled the junk food generation, with a third of youngsters aged five to 13 already considered obese.
Despite this, the Conservatives have decided to axe the watchdog that was set up a decade ago to regulate the junk-food companies.
The Food Standards Agency was set up in 2000 to hold food firms to account after a series of scandals in
which people had died from food-borne illnesses such as e coli and CJD. But today Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will unveil a long-awaited white paper containing plans to abolish it as part of a bonfire of quangos.
The decision to reduce regulation on food companies will enrage doctors who only this weekend called on ministers to impose fat taxes on unhealthy food
-and cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet. The Health Secretary was accused of being taken to the cleaners by food companies after announcing plans to ditch tough controls on salt
sugar and fat content-if producers agree to fund healthy eating campaigns. Junk-food companies admitted they had not yet been asked to provide any money.
Mr Lansley defended the plans, saying the closure of health bodies would save £1billion a year in bureaucracy costs.
So while the political debate rages, just what ARE British children eating? The Food Standards Agency and the 2009 National Diet and Nutrition Survey have calculated the amount of junk that children consume per year
-and it makes worrying reading. Below, we break down the intake for each food category. While many items are eaten acceptable
if in moderation, in bulk they can cause long-term health problems BREAKDOWN OF THE BULGE Biscuits:
The average British child eats 5, 840g a year Equal to: 47 packs of biscuits Fat:
13. 9g per 100g=812g fat per year Sugars: 42. 5g per 100g=2, 482g sugar per year Calories:
454 per 100g 26,514 calories per year Buns, cakes and pastries: The average child eats 8, 030g a year Equal to:
54 packs of Cadbury Mini Rolls Fat: 22. 7g per 100g=1, 823g per year Sugars:
45. 3g per 100g=3, 638g per year Calories: 450 per 100g 36,135 calories per year Cheese:
The average child eats 4, 380g a year Equal to: 256 cream cheese triangles Fat: 19. 5g per 100g=854g per year Sugars:
5. 3g per 100g=232g per year Calories: 240 per 100g 10,512 calories per year Ice cream: The average child eats 5, 840g a year Equal to:
6 tubs Fat: 4g per 100ml=264g per year Sugars: 9. 9g per 100ml=654g per year Calories:
85 per 100ml 5, 616 calories per year Butter: The average child eats 730g a year Equal to:
3 blocks of butter Fat: 80. 9g per 100g=591g per year Sugars: 0. 6g per 100g=4. 4g per year Calories:
734 per 100g 5, 358g per year Bacon and ham: The average child eats 3, 285g a year Equal to:
14 packs of bacon Fat: 19. 8g per 100g=650g per year Sugars: 0g Calories: 245 per 100g 8, 048 per year 8, 048 calories per year Coated chicken:
The average child eats 3, 650g a year Equal to: 13 bags breaded dinosaurs Fat: 17. 8g per 100g=650g per year Sugars:
1. 7g per 100g=62g per year Calories: 280 per 100g 10,220 calories a year Burgers and kebabs:
The average child eats 1, 825g a year Equal to: 17 hamburgers Fat: 8g per 100g=146g per year Sugars:
6g per 100g=110g per year Calories: 250 per burger 4, 563 calories a year Milk When eating out, whole milk is used often in cafes and restaurants.
The average child drinks 68, 225g a year Whole milk: Fat: 3. 6g per 100ml=2, 916g per year Sugars:
4. 7g per 100ml=3, 807g per year Calories: 64 per 100ml=51,840 cals per year Semi-skimmed:
Fat: 1. 6g per 100ml=1, 296g per year Sugars: 5g per 100ml=4, 050g per year Calories:
48 per 100ml=38,880 cals per year Skimmed: Fat: 0. 1g per 100ml=8. 1g per year Sugars:
5g per 100ml=4, 050g per year Calories: 34 per 100ml 27,540 calories per year Sausages: The average child eats 5, 840g a year Equal to:
600 cocktail sausages Fat: 19. 5g per 100g=1, 139g per year Sugars: 1. 2g per 100g=70g per year Calories:
275 per 100g 16,060 calories per year Meat pies: The average child eats 2, 920g a year Equal to:
14 steak and kidney pies Fat: 10g per 100g=292g per year Sugars: 0. 2g per 100g=6g per year Calories:
165 per 100g 4, 818 calories per year Fish, coated or fried: The average child eats 3, 650g a year Equal to:
130 fish fingers Fat: 8. 2g per 100g=299g per year Sugars: 1. 1g per 100g=40g per year Calories:
188 per 100g 6, 862 calories per year Chips and roast potatoes: The average child eats 14, 965g a year Equal to:
8 bags of oven chips Fat: 5. 4g per 100g=808g per year Sugars: 0. 8g per 100g=120g per year Calories:
163 per 100g 24,393 calories per year Sugar (including Jams) The average child eats 1, 825g a year Equal to:
3. 5 bags of sugar Fat: 0g Calories: 400 per 100g 7, 300 calories per year Sugar confectionery The average child eats 4, 015g a year Equal to:
21 bags of jelly sweets Fat: 0. 2g per 100g=8g per year Sugars: 63. 4g per 100g=2, 546g per year Calories:
334 per 100g 13,410 calories per year Chocolate: The average child eats 3, 285g a year Equal to:
52 chocolate bars Fat: 17.4 per 100g=572g per year Sugars: 59g per 100g=1, 938g per year Calories:
446 per 100g 14,651 calories per year Fruit juice: The average child drinks 31, 390g a year Equal to:
32 litres Fat: 0g Sugars: 10. 4g per 100ml=3, 328g per year Calories: 46 per 100ml 14,720 calories per year Soft drinks (not diet) The average child drinks 54, 385g a year Equal to:
55 litres Fat: 0g Sugars: 10. 6g per 100ml=5, 830g per year Calories: 41 per 100ml 22,550 calories per year Breakfast cereals (not wholegrain or high fibre) The average child eats 3, 650g a year Equal to:
7 boxes Fat: 2. 5g per 100g=91. 25g per year Sugars: 35g per 100g=1, 278g per year Calories:
387 per 100g 14,126 calories per year Whole wheat and high fibre cereals The average child eats 6, 570g a year Equal to:
13 boxes Fat: 2g per 100g=131g per year Sugars: 22g per 100g=1, 445g per year Calories:
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#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health
but also escalate the experience of such mundane acts as baking a pizza at home. Steve Hundley dumped his Jaguar convertible.
He stopped taking Baltic cruises. And he stopped buying his wife pricey jewelry. But last year,
just as the recession raised its head, the San diego resident paid $6, 500 for an outdoor artisan pizza oven. oewe dont need the Jaguar or cruises to the Baltic,
says Hundley, who at 56, is semiretired following a heart attack two years ago. oebut cooking healthy food is a big priority.
Americans are dipping their toes back into the luxury pool but with a mindset thats been smacked down
and radically reshaped by the recession, the lure of new technologies and emerging lifestyle twists that are often as much personal as cultural. oethe luxury brands are all trying to reinvent themselves
and deliver a better experience, says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute, a research firm that consults for designer brands.
Apple is making all these companies rethink their business models. It wasnt long ago that luxury primarily meant the accumulation of designer clothes
expensive jewelry and fancy cars. For some, it still does. But for many consumers, the new luxury is something seriously different.
For some, its about owning top technology-based products. Consider: The four brands most admired by Americans with six-digit incomes in a recent survey by the marketing specialist Affluence Collaborative were Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy and Sony.
For others, such as the Hundleys, the new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health
but also escalate the experience of such mundane acts as baking a pizza at home. Sales of outdoor artisan pizza ovens at Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet similar to ovens used at pizza parlors were up 48%last year
and are up 74%so far this year. oeit creates an experience and isnt consumable,
says Pantelis oepete Georgiadis, president of Kalamazoo. oeyou can keep enjoying it for a long, long time.
#Speculators New Craze For Chocolate Leaves A Bitter Taste Be aware that chocolate inflation is about to hit home.
Fair-trade activists and anti-poverty pressure groups are calling for government action to curb financial speculators from inflating food prices.
oefairtrades experience is that people are willing to pay a little more for chocolate, if this supports cocoa farmers in poor countries to improve their own standard of living.
oeit has profound consequences for the worlds poorest people by pushing up the price of basic foods like wheat and corn.
Critics claim that financial speculation in food commodities has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths through malnutrition.
A steep rise in prices for staple foods between 2006 and 2008 including rice, which rose 217 per cent,
resulted in a global food crisis and riots in Haiti, Bangladesh and Egypt. Oxfam said an extra 119 million people were pushed into hunger.
and healthy eating habits Teachers who used gardening as part of childrens education said they displayed more independence
Honeydew melons like this have a sugar content of 20. 2g per 100g of fruit. The award-winning melon was selected for its sweetness, colour and form.
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