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Carbon and sugar tax could ‘significantly’ improve population health

February 16, 2016
Health benefits could be achieved by both a carbon and sugar tax on food and drink in the UK, according to Oxford scientists.

Food allergies better understood

February 10, 2016
Scientists have taken a step closer to explaining food allergies, especially those in children.

Meat-cooking compounds increase the risk of kidney cancer

December 7, 2015
Following a recent report by WHO suggesting the consumption of red and processed meat can increase the risk of colorectal cancer, new work has found that compounds produced when cooking...

Genetic differences in microbes and wine variation linked

November 25, 2015
The distinctive variations in taste and odour between wines from different regions are linked to tiny genetic differences in microbe species, new study finds.

A corker of an infrared spectroscopy study…

December 5, 2014
Researchers have employed infrared spectroscopy techniques to determine how a cork might perform in a wine bottle. A team from the Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid, INIA-CIFOR and the Universidad de...

Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy

October 1, 2014
There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and the East and it could be down to the way the nuts are prepared.Dry...

Uncovering the root (veg) of good health

June 27, 2014
Food scientists, chemists and clinicians will joins forces to investigate the effects of eating carrots, parsnips and celeriac on biomarkers for cancer and inflammatory diseases. A three year project will...

£10m prize to solve greatest scientific problem

May 20, 2014
A £10 million prize has been launched by Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board to solve the greatest scientific problem facing the world today. The Longitude Prize – based on...

Nano-silver health risk?

May 15, 2014
Dietary supplements containing nano-silver could be harmful to health say Danish researchers who have shown that the small sized particles can penetrate cells and cause damage. Silver has an antibacterial...

Turning cellulose into starch for new food source

May 1, 2013
A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops suggests a team at Virginia Tech who have succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch.This...

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