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Americas: MIT invents hand truck for safe deliveries

Delivering beer and other beverages to bars in Boston and other cities with old infrastructure — where many storage cellars have no elevator access...

Americas: Major saturated fatty acids may increase risk of heart disease

Consuming high amounts of four major saturated fatty acids — found in red meat, dairy fat, butter, lard, and palm oil— may increase risk...

Americas: Study finds sugar-sweetened beverages increases prediabetes risk

Adult Americans who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened beverages (roughly one can of soda per day) had a 46% higher risk of developing prediabetes compared to...

Americas: Vanilla needs to be natural, report

Food scientists are scrambling for new ways to produce vanillin — the main vanilla flavor molecule — without losing the natural label, according to...

Americas: Lose weight to lower risk of age-related diseases, finds researchers

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) -supported study provides some of the first clues about the impact of sustained calorie restriction in adults. Results from...

Americas: Study shows key chocolate ingredients could help prevent obesity, diabetes

Scientists are researching on the ingredients in chocolate that might help prevent obesity, type-2 diabetes and potential health benefits such as improved thinking, decreased...

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...

Americas: Jackfruit seeds as viable substitutes for cocoa

Compounds found in jackfruit seeds produce many of the same aromas as processed cocoa beans and are a potentially cheap, abundant substitute for use...

Americas: Sensor that detects toxins in beer

Scientists have developed a portable sensor that can help minimize the risk contamination by mycotoxins during beer production. Their report appears in American Chemical Society's...

Europe: UK holds event on food, human microbes, health

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Quadram Institute held an international conference to explore trends and emerging findings in microbiome science from...