As one of the world’s largest producers, the British Chlorophyll company produces and concentrates chlorophyll from Lincolnshire grown dried grass and lucerne by solvent extraction. All batches are 100% traceable to the field of origin and produced from pesticide free crops. Chlorophyll is naturally oil soluble, whereas the process of alkaline hydrolysis produces water soluble […]
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Over the years, the perception of food additives has been bedevilled by a lack of understanding that nutrition is a chemical process. In the Mix brings out the chemistry in familiar culinary tasks, such as cake-making, and shows how the use of additives is rooted in such processes as making sauces, jam, bread and wine.
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Often on the receiving end of negative comments and bad publicity, a new TV programme has uncovered the truth about flavour enhancer MSG (Monosodium Glutamate). Channel 4’s Food Unwrapped recently went behind the scenes at MSG manufacturer Ajinomoto, and unearthed some surprising facts. For example, MSG – the subject of more than 80 scientific studies
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More than 97% of food samples evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) contain pesticide residue levels that fall within legal limits, with just under 55% of samples free of detectable traces of these chemicals. The findings are part of EFSA’s 2013 annual report on pesticide residues in food, which includes the results for
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As the EU gets set to scrap ‘best-before’ dates on long life food packaging in a bid to stop millions of tons of edible produce being thrown away every year, a US businessman is preparing to open a supermarket and restaurant selling only food that is out-of-date. Doug Rauch, the man behind the successful Trader
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The latest issue of Nutraceuticals Now includes an article on FAIA… The battle to educate consumers is ongoing . . . tackling misconceptions and influencing legislation. It’s all in a day’s work for FAIA Ask the public at large what they think about E numbers, and the response will usually be that they’re ‘bad for
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The Food Standards Agency’s Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker for November 2013 shows the top food safety issue of concern for respondents was food hygiene when eating out (36%). When asked about wider food issues, the top three issues of concern were food prices (60%), food waste (50%), and the amount of salt in food (44%).
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James Kennedy, a British chemistry teacher based in Australia, has combined a love of graphics with a love of science, and produced a series of posters and images which he hopes will dispel the many myths surrounding e-numbers and additives. “As a chemistry teacher, I want to erode the fear that many people have of
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Experts who have reviewed a study of aspartame have concluded that ‘the results did not indicate any need for action to protect the health of the public’. The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer products and the Environment (COT) peer reviewed a double blind randomised crossover study of aspartame, commissioned by the Food
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