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…
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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…
All About Sucralose
Download the Sucralose Fact Sheet for Consumers here Download the Sucralose CPE Self-Study Activity here Learn more about the Sucralose CPE Self-Study Activity here Why would I use…
Sesame: The Next Major Food Allergen?
Ahh, sesame. We all know those pale, tiny seeds that sit on top of hamburger buns, speckling them with bursts of flavor and texture. But sesame is…
Fast Take: Should You Avoid Caffeine If You Suffer from Migraines?
People who suffer from migraines know how debilitating they can be. They can significantly decrease one’s quality of life, making it difficult to work or relax. And…
Food Fraud: A Whole Lot More Than Knockoffs for Food
In 1906, the Federal Food and Drugs Act (then known as the Pure Food and Drug Act) was passed to prevent the sale, manufacture and transportation of adulterated or…
