Green Food: More Than Popeye Imagined
We all know that greens are good for us. Popeye had spinach, George Bush the Elder had broccoli (ok, it was his nemesis, but that's another story). Hopefully, most of us who have opened our eyes to the role of food in our lives now eat and enjoy lots of greens in lots of delicious ways (kale and potato soup, spinach with garlic, tatsoi salad, etc).Now, there’s a new type of green – the eco-friendly type – that is all the rage now that the world seems to be unraveling at the seams: ...
Food A.D. Artificial Digestion That Is.
Yesterday, a story on foodnavigator.com reported on the so-called "model gut," developed by scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in the UK. The IFR says the product, first announced in 2006, is the only model of the human stomach that simulates the physical, mechanical, and biochemical processes that occur during digestion.The ostensible purpose (aside from a licensable product that food and drug companies wanna buy) is to improve food screening, drug development, and to ...
