Last week was Food Allergy Awareness Week, and we’re bringing attention to this growing public health concern. Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) estimates that 32 million Americans are affected by food allergies and that…
Ingredients
Beyond Tea and Coffee—New Sources of Caffeine
While coffee and tea take the cake when it comes to the world’s favorite caffeinated beverages, there’s much more in store beyond those two. I, for one,…
Coffee and Tea Can Hydrate, Too
While a steaming cup of coffee is probably not the first thing you would reach for after you cross the finish line of a marathon, it wouldn’t be the…
Consumer Perceptions About Food Fraud
Download the full report. Food fraud can be defined as “the deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients, or food packaging; or false or…
What Is Maltitol?
Highlights Maltitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol. Maltitol contains half as many calories as sugar and is 90% as sweet. Maltitol is commercially produced from starch for use in baked goods, chewing gum, sugar-free chocolates, hard candies…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Six Tips To Make Your Holiday Meal Planning Easy
A few years ago, I hosted my first Thanksgiving dinner, which turned into a wild scramble in my tiny apartment kitchen while I cooked a meal for…
Transglutaminase: Safety, Function and Benefit to Our Food Supply
With the rise and fall of nutritional trends, scary news about new food ingredients, and rediscoveries of traditionally used ingredients, some common parts of our food supply often fall in and out of public scrutiny. One such ingredient is Transglutaminase (TG), a naturally occurring enzyme…
Meat and Other Novel Food Allergies
We likely all know someone allergic to peanuts, eggs, almonds or some of the other Big Eight allergens. But meat? That’s a new one. A meat allergy isn’t the only unique allergy you might run across. Cases of anaphylaxis to spices,…
Nutrition 101 Video Series: Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
This is the seventh installment of our “Nutrition 101” video series, presented in partnership with Osmosis, a group that focuses on health science education, highlighting the basics of several…