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The Paleolithic, or Caveman, diet, started to whet people's appetites as early as the 1960s and is available in many different forms today. It has passionate supporters and equally ardent critics who call it a Paleofantasy — the truth, as always, is far more...
So it’s 2013, and people are still getting worked up about interracial couples in ads - in America! In late May, a seemingly benign television commercial over breakfast cereal, in this case the ubiquitous Cheerios, has generated something of a media tornado in America. No,...
A recent study at the Oxidative Stress Research Centre, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), has proven the ability of rooibos to improve liver function and protect the liver against oxidative damage....
There has been a lot of press, both positive and negative, about a recent United Nations report in which scientists recommended that we start eating insects to fight world hunger. But the other UN recommendation — that...
PepsiCo's chief executive Indra Nooyi has denied speculation that the carbonated drinks maker is engaged in negotiations to buy Israel's SodaStream International for $2bn. In a statement read out by CNBC television, Nooyi said that the media report to buy Israel's SodaStream...
Mondelez International, the maker of Cadbury chocolate, is reportedly close to introducing heat-resistant bars it can sell at market stalls in Africa and some of the world's hottest places....
A whey drink aimed at mainstream consumers as well as sportspeople has been launched by UK dairy ingredients company Volac. The new high protein, low fat dairy drink – Upbeat – is made from fresh liquid whey protein concentrate and real fruit, and is a...
Move over cupcakes! The Cronut, an iced doughnut made from deep-fried croissant pastry, rolled in sugar and filled with cream, has become the subject of New York's latest frenzied food fad.
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To get drunk, people are endlessly creative. But, in the US, the growing appearance of an unusual form of drinking, known as “smoking” alcohol, has doctors concerned....
Who needs coffee for breakfast when you can pour Wired Wyatt’s caffeinated maple syrup over your Wired Waffles? Americans, it turns out, are willing to gobble up caffeine in all kinds of foods — from potato chips to sunflower seeds to beef jerky. Not to...
Strawberry lovers rejoice: the days of unpacking your luscious berries from the refrigerator only to find them sprouting wispy goatees of mould may be numbered thanks to LED technology. ...
No kidding! Lollyphile, a Texas-based candy company, has released a vegan lollipop that tastes like breast milk. Founder, Jason Darling, said he came up with the idea after he noticed that breast milk was turning his friends' furious babies...
The last time Red Bull funded a record-breaking jump, it went over pretty well. "Stratos," the video account of Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of space, is the No 4 branded video of all time, according to Visible Measures. The campaign...
One of Kellogg's oldest brands, Special K, is also turning out to be one of its "newest" brands. That's because the cereal maker has continued to expand and actually reinvent the brand for a decade now — including some major just-announced innovations. [Click pic to...
Nestlé has opened the most advanced laboratories of their kind in the food industry to study food-borne pathogens that are harmful to human health.
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Malnutrition is a major issue for millions of poor South Africans, yet half of the country's fresh produce is wasted. For some perspective, if the wasted fruit and vegetables were 10kg bags of potatoes, every person in Johannesburg could receive a bag of...
When it comes to produce, potatoes are actually one of the best nutritional values on the market, according to a new study published in the latest edition of the journal PLOS ONE....
American researchers have found that the popular artificial sweetener, sucralose, can modify how the body handles sugar. The study is available online in the journal Diabetes Care....
It is not often that, in global terms, there are three major pieces of M&A in the same sector in the space of three weeks. The sector in question is organic baby food....