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Instant Coffee and Acrylamide: Should You Be Worried?

25 Oct 2024

Coffee is a staple beverage for millions of people worldwide, consumed in endless scenarios: catching up with a friend, powering through an intense study session, or simply kickstarting the day....

Processing Information About Processed Meat

8 Oct 2024

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization lists processed meats in its 鈥淐ategory 1,鈥 reserved for substances known to cause cancer in humans....

We Are Exposed to Thousands and Thousands of Chemicals

4 Oct 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette. 鈥淭hree thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.鈥

Genetic Engineering Has Been Applied to Cheese Making: No Reason to Be Cheesed Off.

24 Sep 2024

Cheese producers were cheesed off.聽 People were just not eating enough veal.聽 Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch.聽 There was not...

Real Gold or Fool鈥檚 Gold: The Controversies of Bee Pollen

20 Sep 2024

The earliest evidence of human consumption of bee products can be traced back to a painting from between 8000-5000 B.C. in Spain. The Greeks considered pollen to be the food of kings. There is a...

What Does a Health Canada Issued 鈥淣atural Product Number (NPN)鈥 on a Supplement Mean?

18 Sep 2024

Prescription drug sales in Canada amount to roughly $50 billion a year. That鈥檚 a lot of money, but the $13 billion pulled in annually by the natural health products industry isn鈥檛 small potatoes...

Another Bullet Fired at Highly Processed Food

11 Sep 2024

Elie Metchnikoff drank sour milk every day. He believed that the lactic acid bacteria found in fermented foods like yogurt, especially the聽Lactobacillus bulgaricus聽strain, helped to promote...

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