Food & Tobacco

First Reported 02/08/2010 - Updated 02/08/2010 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

United States Patent And Trademark Office

Burcon Makes Patent Breakthrough for Novel Canola Product

Type:Food Ingredients News Source:Food Ingredients First Sector:General Company & Ingredient Information Summary:Burcon’s proprietary process allows for the separation of two distinct fractions resulting in a cruciferin-rich canola protein isolate Puratein ... [Food Ingredients First - 02/08/2010]

Entities: Protein, Patent, fractionation, United States Patent And Trademark Office

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

New survey reveals Brits don’t know why they should cut the salt

Type:Business News Source:Food Ingredients First Sector:General Company & Ingredient Information Summary:There is overwhelming evidence that eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, however while over two-thirds (69%) of us are aware that ... [Food Ingredients First - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Stomach Cancer, Hypertension, Kidney

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Cadbury PLC

City leaders to target ‘junk food’ makers

Fast food companies are the new bugbear of London’s mayor, who used the launch of a new event comparing childhood obesity in New York and London to pledge action. The new report, called “A Tale of Two ObesCities”, found that childhood obesity rates are ... [Food Navigator - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Obesity, Cadbury PLC, York (United Kingdom), London, Boris Johnson

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Nine food label lies

It's a fact of the grocery store that the most healthy food often has the least marketing muscle behind it. The best sources of fiber and vitamins are fresh vegetables and fruit, and yet it's the processed, packaged junk food fortified with vitamin and ... [Yahoo! Green - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Sugar, Trans Fats

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

McDonald's Corporation

''Chicken and Pasta Wheel Pickups" toddler dinner dishes out sodium equivalent to two orders of medium fries at McDonald's

Two of Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence - the Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network - today awarded the third annual national "Salt Lick Award" to Gerber Graduates Lil' Entrees. This choice was made because the "Chicken ... [Research & Development - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Sodium, Advanced Foods and Materials Network, Stroke, McDonald's Corporation, Canada

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

National institutes of Health

‘Jury still out’ on sweeteners and metabolic effects

The scientific literature does not support a link between intakes of artificial sweeteners and metabolic changes in children, says a new review from the US National Institutes of Health. While some data from observational studies does link artificially-sweetened ... [Food Navigator - 02/02/2010]

Entities: Rebecca Brown, Obesity, National Institute of Diabetes, National institutes of Health

First Reported 02/02/2010 - Updated 02/02/2010 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Young Adults Need More Whole Grains

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Teens and young adults are consuming less than one serving of whole grains per day instead of the three servings recommended for prevention of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and excess weight gain, according to a new study published ... [Food Product Design - 02/02/2010]

Entities: American Dietetic Association, Nutrition, Diabetes

First Reported 02/03/2010 - Updated 02/03/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Nearly 1 in 10 in L.A. County turned to food banks for help in 2009, study finds

The survey of groups supplied by the L.A. Regional Foodbank showed a 46% increase in demand from 2005. The findings mirror national figures. Text Size A record 983,400 Los Angeles County residents -- nearly one in 10 -- received food assistance last year ... [Los Angeles Times - 02/03/2010]

Entities: Michael Flood, Los Angeles, Feeding America

First Reported 02/03/2010 - Updated 02/03/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

UK - Additional feeding for sheep

There has been strong demand for the new SAC nutrition guide for sheep producers, 'Year-Round Feeding Of Ewes For Lifetime Production', including very real interest from the Irish Republic. Sheep feeding The booklet was written following an SAC knowledge ... [Meat Trade News Daily - 02/03/2010]

Entities: Nutrition, Tom McEvoy, Colin Morgan, United Kingdom

First Reported 02/03/2010 - Updated 02/03/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

BEEF XPress

“Are there more genetic defects in cattle now than in the past?” “Not really; it is merely the recognition and reporting that has increased over the years,” says University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign geneticist Jonathan Beever. It's among the questions ... [Beef Online - 02/03/2010]

Entities: Obesity, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Mortality, City College of New York, Oklahoma State University

First Reported 02/03/2010 - Updated 02/03/2010 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Don't be misled by these food label tricks

Entities: Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Sugar, Trans Fats

First Reported 02/03/2010 - Updated 02/03/2010 - 1 Documents (in Health)

UNCONTAINED: Calorific labeling dilemma

We recently posted a news item in our Breaking News section, “Food packages: Actual calories exceed labeled values,” that I felt—like a controversial football call—was worthy of further review. The study, reported in the January 2010 issue of the Journal ... [Food & Beverage Packaging - 02/03/2010]

Entities: Calorie, American Dietetic Association, Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration

Quotes

Ball concluded: "Glycerol has the potential to be a new feed ingredient in pig diets and can replace a proportion of cereal in the diet but more research is needed to fully understand how glycerol is utilised by pigs."

Glycerol tested as a pig feed ingredient [Pig Progress - 02/04/2010]

"Our view is they are a good source of protein for people who don't have a lot of money. There's obviously demand in those countries for the product - it seems sensible to meet that demand."

NZ - Blame it on meat as everybody else does [Meat Trade News Daily - 02/04/2010]

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