and beverage products with nutrients improve textural attributes replace common food allergens function in gluten-free formulations
The article highlighted food scientists using sprouted brown rice to increase protein in bars powdered shakes soups pastas ready-to-drink beverages cereals and sweet and savory snacks.
Rice starches are being used to provide a variety of texture options in both food and beverages from smooth and creamy to crispy and crunchy.
Just over half of consumers look for foods absent of artificial ingredients while one quarter of adults buy organic foods/beverages.
America's 52 million Hispanics spent an estimated $6. 9 billion on functional foods in 2012 and $9. 4 billion on natural/organic foods/drinks (NBJ 2013d.
Hispanics are also the number one users of energy drinks/shots sports beverages and 100 percent juice/juice drinks (Packaged Facts 2013b.
Almost half of America's 32 million moms who say they always buy health foods/drinks for their kids are looking for a wider range of healthy convenient kid-friendly foods/drinks with nutrient
or beverages that targeted a specific condition while cholesterol-lowering foods/drinks were purchased the most condition-specific food or drink (Packaged Facts 2013c).
Alternatives: Eighty percent of households now eat meatless meals for dinner on occasion and eggs are the most popular alternative followed by beans/lentils/legumes (FMI 2014).
and coconut water ranked eighth among the popular nonalcoholic beverage trends in restaurants for 2014.
and the combined consumer sales of sports nutrition supplements nutrition bars and energy drinks topped $24 billion in 2012 up 11.2 percent (NBJ 2013e).
Kids play a major role in this category with three-quarters of kids between the ages of six-11 and 71 percent of teens ages 12-17 using sports drinks (Mintel 2014
Half of the users of protein drinks believe they help them perform better during exercise.
Millennials are also the most likely to believe that functional foods/beverages can be used in place of some medicines (NMI 2012) to relieve tiredness/lack of energy retain mental sharpness with aging stress and eye health.
They also drink a wider range of beverages than other generations including ready-to-drink coffees and sparkling drinks.
#Regulating legal marijuana could be guided by lessons from alcohol, tobacco, study saysas U s. policymakers consider ways to ease prohibitions on marijuana the public health approaches used to regulate alcohol
and tobacco over the past century may provide valuable lessons according to new RAND Corporation research.
A new study published online by the American Journal of Public health outlines how regulations on alcohol
and how to discourage the dual use of marijuana and alcohol particularly in public settings. The lessons from the many decades of regulating alcohol and tobacco should offer some guidance to policymakers who are contemplating alternatives to marijuana prohibition
and are interested in taking a public health approach said Beau Kilmer co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research center
Based on the national experience with alcohol and tobacco it seems prudent from a public health perspective to open up the marijuana market slowly with tight controls to test the waters
The article discusses a variety of strategies used to control alcohol and tobacco that also may be appropriate for regulation of marijuana.
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#Surprising consequences of banning chocolate milkfor many children eating school lunch chocolate milk is a favorite choice.
if chocolate milk were banned from school cafeterias? Students take 10%less milk waste 29%more and may even stop eating school meals says Andrew Hanks Phd.
Oregon elementary schools where chocolate milk had been banned from the cafeterias and replaced with skim milk. While this policy eliminated the added sugar in chocolate milk there were unexpected nutritional and economic backlashes.
The new Cornell Food and Brand Lab study by Andrew Hanks David Just and Brian Wansink found that eliminating chocolate milk from the elementary schools decreased total milk sales by 10%indicating that many
students substituted white for chocolate milk. Even though more students were taking white milk they wasted 29%more than before.
Nutritionally after the milk substitution students on average consumed less sugar and fewer calories but also consumed less protein and calcium.
Nicole Zammit former Assistance Director of Nutrition Services at Eugene School District was not surprised that banning chocolate milk had negative consequences.
The use of phosphate fertilizers over many decades--contaminated with cadmium--created the current conditions.
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while working on her degree at the University of New Haven conducted an essential experiment to verify that sugars play a key role in apical dominance and the regulation of plant bud growth.
and quickly enough to trigger bud growth farther down. To trace the sugars the scientists first had to add a radioactive tag to these molecules.
The scientists also monitored how much sugar accumulated at different positions including where previously dormant buds began to sprout in response to clipping the plants'apical shoots.
We found that upon decapitation of the plant there is a rapid increase in sugar delivery to the buds
which promotes bud outgrowth Babst said. The sugars move about 100 times faster than auxin a plant hormone previously believed to regulate bud growth.
This finding supports the idea that sugar--not auxin--is the key signaling molecule for this immediate response to clipping.
thus normally keeping lower branch bud growth in check. Only a few labs in the world have the capability using the carbon-11 radioisotope to do the type of experiment that we did to see rapid changes in carbon allocation immediately following a treatment such as shoot tip removal Babst said.
and sorghum--where because the buds and shoot tips are inaccessible without damaging the plant
And ragweed allergies are linked also to allergies to bananas cantaloupe cucumber zucchini and chamomile tea.
and EPOC laboratories (OASU CNRS Universitã Bordeaux 1) and published in the journal Nature changes the order for global carbon footprints.
and the nicotine dose that an individual user may receive varies with the brand battery charge level e-juice
and tea can help fight weight gain and type-2 diabetes. But not all flavanols which are a type of antioxidant are created equal.
It's a surprise to find methane is such a big source of energy in these gin-clear waters famed for their luxuriant plant growth said co-author Professor Mark Trimmer Head of the Aquatic Ecology Group at Queen Mary
and weight of the catch for 40 species. The hydrological data include daily water level measurements recorded in the Madeira Purus and Amazonas-Solimã es rivers.
and alcohol intake and exclude deaths within a year of the food survey. The study published in the Journal of Epidemiology
In our study even those eating one to three portions had a significantly lower risk than those eating less than onethe researchers found no evidence of significant benefit from fruit juice
and cheaper varieties are packed in syrup rather than fruit juice explains Dr Oyebode. The negative health impacts of the sugar may well outweigh any benefits.
In their analysis researchers controlled for smoking exercise consumption of red meat sugar-sweetened beverages and other dietary and cardiovascular risk factors that correlate with atherosclerosis.
They also put a spider in alcohol as holotype the obligatory reference specimen for the naming of any new species
or drink the CDC says. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Florida Institute of food and agricultural sciences.
In addition to soybeans coffee beans and shirts if made from cotton consume lots of water from the growing process to processing to shipping--with most of that water consumption resulting from evaporation
if the tendency is to have lower precipitation in combination with deforestation the suitable habitat for the bees is going to be reduced said Margarita LÃ pez-Uribe the paper's first author and a graduate student at Cornell.
#Texans are turning to a different kind of spirit--vodka --and saltier is known bettertexans for enjoying local beers
and Dr pepper soft drinks now have a growing beverage industry that would appeal to James bond who is well-known for enjoying a good martini.
Distillers are producing at least 17 Texas vodkas researchers reported in Dallas today and the most popular are surprisingly those that are a bit salty.
Their report Shaken not stirred y'all: A comparison of select Texas vodkas covered the results of group tastings on the vodkas as well as some surprising facts about the state's alcoholic beverage market.
It was part of the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS.
The Texas vodka industry is just exploding said Diana Mason Ph d. the lead researcher of the work.
Two years ago when we started the study there were only six vodkas in Texas. Now there are 17 and counting.
And Texans are supposed to be beer drinkers! The expansion of the Lone Star State's distilleries is limited not to vodka either.
Right now there are more than 25 distilleries in the state of Texas which actually produce a lot of vibrant and diverse alcoholic spirits including vodka said Timothy W. Stephens a graduate student at the University of North Texas Denton where he
and Mason conducted the study. The list is expanding to include the production of rum gin whiskey bourbon flavored liqueurs and even agave spirits similar to tequila.
And more than 273 wineries have cropped up in the Lone Star State according to Stephens. In their vodka-tasting study 50 men
and women each sampled multiple small shots of the state's vodkas--presented in test tubes of course Mason said participants only consumed at most an ounce of vodka
because researchers used the swish and spit technique popular in wine tastings. The results were said surprising she.
The two most popular brands among the tasters were the ones with the most dissolved salts
which are detected by the tongue as are other tastes such as sweet and sour. So it was dissolved the salts in the vodka that affected the people's taste buds said Stephens. Besides conductivity (which was a test the researchers used to detect the salts) the team checked the color acidity cost and density of the vodkas.
It turned out that conductivity was the only factor separating the favorite brands from the rest.
Even the source of the vodka--corn wheat rye barley potato berries and cactus--didn't affect peoples'preferences he noted.
Stephens said he plans to conduct further taste studies on Texas-made bourbons whiskeys gins and rums.
The tags could also be customized for a variety of other foods and beverages. The tags contain tiny metallic nanorods that at different stages
and no trans-fat compared to the coconut oil bars previously used Overall the healthier items accounted for 9. 2%of total sales a clear indication of demand for these items.
and the temperature of the groundwater may rise--with possibly negative consequences for drinking water quality.
It requires participants to fast overnight have measured their blood sugar then drink a sweet beverage containing the equivalent lactose of one to two liters of cow's milk
Additionally boosters substituted canola oil for coconut oil bars in the popcorn and swapped the cheese in the nachos eliminating trans fat from the products.
Although relatively few people drink raw milk--it's thought to comprise less than 1 percent of milk consumed nationwide--Gardner said he believes in making sure that the claims regarding foods
If drinking milk makes you uncomfortable you will know within two hours. You either have cramps
For the pilot study Gardner's team recruited 16 participants who were tested to confirm their lactose-intolerant status. The test measures the amount of hydrogen in a person's breath after drinking a beverage that contains lactose.
Additionally small amounts of sugar-free vanilla syrup were added to all three milks to make it more difficult for the participants to know which one they were drinking.
The participants also didn't notice a difference in the severity of their symptoms when drinking raw versus pasteurized milk.
He said future studies should note that the participants were willing to tolerate the discomforts of drinking milk for eight days which he believed was long enough to determine
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whereas sausages eggs sweets sugary drinks salty fish and saturated fats from milk products and spreads were indicated as unhealthy.
Preliminary ORNL analysis in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado shows the catalytic technology could be retrofitted into existing bio-alcohol refineries at various stages of ethanol purification.
Phenolics are antioxidants similar to those in grapes and red wine. Compared to plants grown in normal soil without bacteria plants grown in stamp sand alone showed a fivefold increase in phenolics.
38.5%declared that leisure activities were responsible above all being in bars and restaurants and 24.7%said that it had been a member of the household who was a smoker.
The researchers identified three distinct dietary patterns interpreted as prudent (vegetables fruits oils water as a beverage whole grain cereals poultry fibre rich bread) Western
http://www. nrs. fs. fed. us/pubs/45430people often think of climate change as being distant
It's efficient said Philippe BÃ gin MD a visiting scientist at Stanford and the paper's lead author.
#Water filter from the sapwood in pine tree branchesif you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip there's a simple solution:
In fact an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of drinking water a day--enough to quench the thirst of a typical person.
Paul Brewer Principal Research Scientist at NPL said: By using high accuracy gravimetry we were able to prepare a gas mixture that accurately replicated the natural occurring isotopic carbon dioxide.
The research team confirmed in other studies that eating strawberries also protects against ultraviolet radiation reduces the damage that alcohol can have on the gastric mucosa strengthens erythrocytes
Nutrient-rich foods and beverages provide vitamins minerals protein carbohydrates and other essential nutrients that offer health benefits with relatively few calories.
Beauvais offers practical ways to add nutrient-rich foods and beverages to your daily diet:
and beverages first is a way to make better choices within your daily eating plan.
Drink few regular sodas fruit drinks and sports drinks and cut back on cakes cookies ice cream cheese
Instead RTC researchers tested the Buoy Deployed Seeding (Buds) restoration technique. They first harvested eelgrass seedpods from several eelgrass beds in San francisco bay then suspended the pods within floating nets over experimental tanks (called mesocosms) supplied with Bay water and with or without sediment from the original eelgrass areas.
and sugar-sweetened beverages the real prices of restaurant meals and fruits and vegetables have increased.
and are used probably for creating starch-filled turions specialized buds produced by aquatic plants for overwintering enabling them sink to the bottom of ponds
While groundwater pollution is attributed usually to a large array of chemicals high nitrate concentration in aquifer water is the main cause for drinking-water well shutdowns.
and beverages provided by parents have resulted in little to no improvement in the amount of fruits vegetables whole grains and/or water.
and rapid weight gain among children observed in the summertime a group of researchers from the University of South carolina used summer day camps as a unique opportunity to influence food and beverage choices of the children attending.
of healthy food brought by children as well as decreases in untargeted foods such as sugar-sweetened beverages and salty snacks.
and procedures as well as a guide to choosing healthy foods and beverages. Incentives identified by the summer day camps were distributed based on points accumulated by the children and staff for bringing fruits vegetables and water.
Likewise they observed decreases of 15%and 13%in the amount of chips and non-100%juices brought respectively.
and decreases of 31%for chips and 6. 4%for soda. With over 14 million children attending summer day camps introduction of the HLC can serve as a way to influence the eating habits of children during the summer said lead author Falon Tilley MS Department of Exercise
Our results show that Vitamin c deficiency should be considered a risk factor for this severe type of stroke as were high blood pressure drinking alcohol
This is the first study showing that grape seed can enhance the potency of one of the major chemotherapy drugs in its action against colon cancer cells says Dr Cheah researcher in the School of Agriculture Food and Wine.
Fellow co-author and joint lead researcher Dr Sue Bastian Senior Lecturer in Oenology says: These findings could be a boost to the wine grape industry as it value adds to
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and experimental data considering that even a simple lattice made of north-south bar magnets can become a multidimensional dance of attraction and repulsion.
After roasting cocoa seeds are ground into a paste called chocolate liquor. The liquor separates into dry cocoa and cocoa butter or fat.
Chocolate Ingredientscocoa is heated and combined with other ingredients such as sugar and milk to create chocolate bars and candy.
Dark chocolate is at least 35 percent cocoa liquor; and milk chocolate 10 percent. White chocolate has cocoa butter but no chocolate liquor.
Chocolate contains protein magnesium and flavanols (antioxidants. Dark chocolate has caffeine; white chocolate does not.
The result was two different formulations--gummy candies and a concentrated fruit juice (nectar)--each roughly equal to a cup of fresh berries.
#Dark chocolate, red wine will keep your honey heart-healthy this Valentines day, expert saysforget the oysters and the champagne this Valentine's day.
and red wine said Loyola University Health System preventive heart specialist Sara Sirna MD. Red wine and dark chocolate taste great
and have heart-healthy components said Dr. Sirna who also is a professor of medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of medicine.
Red wine contains resveratrol which has been found to lower blood sugar and LDL or bad cholesterol. It also is a source of catechins
and on the other occasion the orange juice contained a placebo. The tests showed that the candidates performed better on the stopping task
if they had drunk the juice with tyrosine. Benefitsthe positive effect of tyrosine on our reaction speed can have benefits for road safety.
Lead author Zachary Crannell a graduate student based at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative said the disease usually transmitted through drinking water accounts for 20 percent of childhood diarrheal deaths in developing countries.
and drink consumed over a week at the time of study entry among 753 people who developed new-onset type 2 diabetes over 11 years of follow-up with 3502 randomly selected study participants.
and sugary drinks is bad for our health it is very reassuring to have messages about other foods like yoghurt
red wine or other alcohol; fish; coffee; and vitamins or other supplements. More than 71 percent of people surveyed said that they heard moderate or high levels of contradictory information about nutrition.
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Most of us grew up drinking milk. We were told it was the ultimate health drink.
It is packed full of nutrients like calcium and other minerals vitamins including Vitamin d protein fat and sugar in the form of lactose.
In the West people take milk drinking for granted because most people of European descent are able to produce the enzyme lactase in adulthood and so digest the milk sugar lactose.
#Ingredients in chocolate, tea, berries could guard against diabeteseating high levels of flavonoids including anthocyanins
and other compounds (found in berries tea and chocolate) could offer protection from type 2 diabetes--according to research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and King's college London.
and vegetables such as parsley thyme and celery and anthocyanins found in berries red grapes wine and other red or blue-coloured fruits and vegetables.
what we are seeing is that people who eat foods rich in these two compounds--such as berries herbs red grapes wine-are less likely to develop the disease.
or wine may contain some beneficial substances. If we can start to identify and separate these substances we can potentially improve healthy eating.
The current treatment of this allergy consists of avoiding peach consumption neither fresh nor processed peaches (juices jam.
turn off the juice and the buckyball goes back to normal he said. The researchers used a combination of experimentation
But until now other than depending on their taste buds chocolate connoisseurs had no way of knowing whether they were getting
Dapeng Zhang and colleagues note that lower-quality cacao beans often get mixed in with premium varieties on their way to becoming chocolate bars truffles sauces and liqueurs.
Researchers have found ways to verify through genetic testing the authenticity of many other crops including cereals fruits olives tea
#New evidence of Nordic grog discovered in Scandinaviaa blazing fire was not the only thing to keep Bronze
From northwest Denmark circa 1500-1300 BC to the Swedish island of Gotland as late as the first century AD Nordic peoples were imbibing an alcoholic grog
or extreme hybrid beverage rich in local ingredients including honey bog cranberry lingonberry bog myrtle yarrow juniper birch tree resin
and/or rye--and sometimes grape wine imported from southern or Central europe. New research published in the Danish Journal of Archaeology examines evidencederived from samples inside pottery and bronze drinking vessels and strainers from four sites in Demark and Sweden.
The research proves the existence of an early widespread and long-lived Nordic grog tradition one with distinctive flavors
and probable medicinal purposes--and the first chemically attested evidence for the importation of grape wine from southern or Central europe as early as 1100 BC demonstrating both the social and cultural prestige attached to wine and the presence
and Romans the early Scandinavians northern inhabitants of so-called Proxima Thule emerge with this new evidence as a people with an innovative flair for using available natural products in the making of distinctive fermented beverages
or central Europeans drinking their preferred beverages out of imported and often ostentatiously grand vessels.
and drinking the southern beverage of preference grape wine though sometimes mixed with local ingredients.
The bucket was part of a standard imported Roman wine-set and the woman held the strainer-cup in her right hand.
and interior of a strainer-cup again part of imported Roman wine-set provided the fourth sample.
According to Dr. Mcgovern the importation of southern wine grew apace in the Bronze and Iron ages and eventually eclipsed the grog tradition--but never completely.
Many of the ingredients in Nordic grog went on to be consumed in birch beer and as the principal bittering agents (so-called gruit) of medieval beers before hops gained popularity and the German purity law (Reinheitsgebot)
which limited ingredients of beer to barley hops and water was enacted in Bavaria in 1516
and eventually became the norm in Northern europe. About the closest thing to the grog today is produced on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea Dr. Mcgovern noted.
You can taste Gotlandsdryka in farmhouses. It's made from barley honey juniper and other herbs like those in the ancient version.
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#4 Limit Your Alcohol. While some studies suggest potential health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption the evidence is clear that excessive alcohol intake is bad for your health
and specifically can raise certain types of cancer risk. For women even a few drinks a week may increase breast cancer risk.
Even overuse of mouthwash which contains alcohol Varvares says has been linked to mouth cancer. TAKE ACTION:
Take a realistic look at your alcohol consumption and consider whether it falls within the recommended range:
two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women.##5: Wear Sunscreen and Avoid Tanning Beds.
As many as one in five Americans will develop skin cancer during their lifetime. Sunscreen which blocks dangerous rays from the sun is your best bet to avoid skin cancer.
and the subjective palatability of different complex tastes such as the sweet and sour taste of orange juice.
They studied the responses of 15 test subjects to the taste of sweet chilli sauce orange juice bitter tea coffee and soup and a water control.
and one for the intensity with respect to each of the five tastes sweet sour salty bitter and spicy.
Results and suggestionsci in the eyelid increased significantly in response to chilli sauce orange juice and soup while CIS in the forehead nose
and cheek decreased in response to bitter tea. There was a significant correlation between the palatability scores
however bitter tea caused vasoconstriction in the nose. Similar vasoconstriction in the nose has been observed in response to the discomfort of electrical stimulation of a finger or teeth.
and are likely the cause of the observed vasoconstriction in the nose in response to bitter tea.
In the current study orange juice was found to significantly increase skin blood flow in the cheek
In contrast skin blood flow in the forehead was not found to increase at the taste of orange juice
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