“Perceptual Shifts” and Craving Control
In the course of surfing the NYT this morning, I stopped to read a short review of Dr. David Kessler’s book, “The End of Overeating”. One point in particular really leaped out: Planned and structured eating and understanding your personal food triggers are essential. In addition, educating yourself about food can help alter your perceptions about what types of food are desirable. Just as many of us now find...
Palm Oil is NOT a Healthy Replacement for Partially-Hydrogenated Oils
As most everyone knows by now, the partially-hydrogenated oils used in commercial food products are high in unhealthy trans-fats. Now that trans-fats must be disclosed on nutrition labels (at least in places where they’re not banned outright), many manufacturers have replaced them with natural sources of saturated fat. Palm oil is one of those substitutes. It’s a highly popular cooking oil worldwide that’s high in...
In-Vitro Meat?
This is kinda off the wall… So what’s for dinner in 2022? A new report released by Britain’s Food Ethics Council last month identified some of the possibilities – more food grown in allotments, more functional foods – and in vitro meat, meaning meat that’s been grown from animal stem cells as opposed to meat cut from a carcass. When reports of meat grown experimentally in the lab by Dutch...
Sorry, But the FDA Isn’t THAT Stupid
The health/fitness supplement industry has an uneasy relationship with the FDA – to say the least. Thus, it was no surprise to see a link to this news item getting passed around, so people could have a laugh at the agency’s expense… Popular cereal is a drug, US food watchdog says WASHINGTON (AFP) – Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General...
Wendy’s 1, McDonald’s… 0!
About a month or so back, I reported on my experience with a McDonald’s grilled chicken salad. It was truly the most pathetic salad I have ever encountered and still remains so. I was most disappointed at the effort Mickey-Dees was making in providing real alternatives to the usual high-calorie, high fat offerings. The salad was, plain and simple, a joke. At the time, I remembered Wendy’s competitive offerings in a much...
Ice Scream
I’m proud of my food tech training and background. Nonetheless, there are times when the food industry makes me want to scream. Like today, after reading this industry article… Ice-cream as a vehicle for delivering probiotic strains has ‘great potential’, giving a health boost without affecting the sensory profile of ice-cream, say Brazilian scientists. But the products must be backed up by the science and accompanied by...
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