Americas: Seniors who eat dark chocolate found to have better stamina, say researchers
Eating dark chocolate could help improve energy levels, raise exercise stamina and improve other measures of heart health in sedentary older adults, according to...
Europe: Danish researchers find chemical cocktail effects in food
A recently completed, four-year research project on cocktail effects in foods, led by the National Food Institute, has established that when two or more...
Europe: Barry Callebaut, partners craft yeast starter cultures to ferment cocoa
The Barry Callebaut Group and its partners have improved the process of cocoa fermentation.
Researchers from the company, VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and KU...
Europe: More Danes are eating healthily, finds research
More fish and vegetables and less sugar-sweetened soft drinks are some of the new trends that contribute positively to the Danish diet.
These are some...
Americas: Emulsifiers may contribute to obesity-related disorders, say researchers
Emulsifiers, which are added to most processed foods to aid texture and extend shelf life, can alter the gut microbiota composition and localization to...
Europe/Asia Pacific: Nuts found to lengthen lifespan, say researchers
Researchers examined the association of nut consumption with mortality among low-income and racially diverse populations and found that the intake of peanuts was associated...
World: Reduce sugar intake for health, WHO urges adults, children
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their...
Americas: Researchers find fructose more toxic than table sugar in mice
When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup...
World: Diet quality wans despite higher income, finds researchers
Overall diet quality worsened across the world even as consumption of healthier foods increased in many countries, according to an analysis of worldwide dietary...
World: Africa should improve output of tree, root crops not mimic Asia’s success, say...
African countries cannot blindly adopt food policy initiatives that spurred the Green Revolution in Asia as a way to promote agricultural development, according to...