Food Science News | Food Science News – Food Science Information

fresh veggies

05/07/2018 / By Ralph Flores

One of nature’s best multivitamins, beets are full of nutrients

People who have prepared beets know of the horror mess it can cause: It can turn a spotless kitchen into what can only be described as something close to a crime scene. Eating one can be tricky too: Beet juice can also stain your clothes. Still, this shouldn’t dissuade you from consuming this nutritionally diverse […]

03/17/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Demand for superfoods continues to increase; Can production keep up?

How many avocados have you eaten in the past week? How about blueberries or kale? When certain foods suddenly get a lot of attention for their nutritional content, it’s not unusual for demand to rise. The question is: Can producers keep up? According to the World Fruit Map 2018 from Rabobank, the avocado trade has […]

03/15/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Different paths to the same goal: Vegetarian and Mediterranean diets both proven to prevent heart disease

Heart disease claims more American lives than any other disease. A quarter of all deaths in our country are caused by heart disease. Close to 800,000 people have a first heart attack each year, and it kills over half a million people annually. There are many theories about how best to prevent coronary conditions, but […]

02/11/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

GOOD FATS HEAL: After conventional medicine failed, five-year-old cured of epilepsy by eating hundreds of avocados

Sometimes eating the right foods can do a lot more to heal people than taking medication, as was illustrated recently by the remarkable turnaround of an epileptic British girl. Five-year-old Leafy Liu suffered from severe epilepsy from the time she was a baby, often suffering as many as 60 seizures per day. Conventional medicine was […]

1 of 1