FOOD SCIENCE

Welcome to the 'FOOD SCIENCE' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'FOOD SCIENCE'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “FOOD SCIENCE”

• Deciphering Okra & Other Plants

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 471
  Biodiversit y brings to our attention the work of researchers in fields ranging from plant genetics to ethnobotany . Olagorite Adetula is presently working on screening"...500 samples of okra to assess the amount of genetic variability..." for purposes of improving disease resistance. Award winning Maryam ...
  4 hours ago

• Bill Nye the Science Guy - 62: Nutrition 1/3

  
  Nutrition & Healthy Cooking — Authority: 149
  Playlist: www.youtube.com It’s Bill Nye the Science Guy! In this episode, Bill explores the science of nutrition. We are what we eat! Well, at least at the molecular level. And so, our health depends in part on which foods we ingest. Enjoy, please rate and comment. Check out my other videos of Bill Nye the Science ...
  2 days ago

• EdoBotanics and Bitterleaf

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 471
  Founded by Ernest B. Izevbigie , EdoBotanics phytoceutical and nutraceutical products include derivatives of the Bitter Leaf plant which in some cases suppressed certain cancers.ML reports : "This plant is called Vernonia Amygdalina," Izevbigie said."When I was growing up in Nigeria my grandmother ...
  2 days ago

• The Daily Habit: Weird News

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 137
  New Roach Species in NYC http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091223/sc_afp/usgeneticsanimalsoffbeat
  2 days ago

• Sorry Natalie, Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

  
  The Discerning Brute — Authority: 122
  The New York Times recently ran a piece by Natalie Angier called “ Sorry Vegans, Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too “. It was categorized under the “Science” section, with the further distinction of “ basics “. In other words, the author wants to let us know that making an ethical argument to curtail ...
  3 days ago

• Organic Apples are better, because they are not sprayed with pesticides, right?

  
  ultraorange.net — Authority: 126
  The organic movement has infiltrated our minds and told us for years that all those pesticides on "normal" apples are bad and dangerous for us. The truth us that you hardly find truly untreated & un-sprayed apples in organic markets. Most unsprayed apple would have very ugly looking brown spots and often a peel ...
  3 days ago

• Reading Around on December 18th through December 23rd

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 445
  A few interesting links collected December 18th through December 23rd: Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus | Information Is Beautiful – point by point refutation of climate change deniers Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon Recipe « Knopf Doubleday – Cooking – "one of Julia Child’s signature dishes: ...
  3 days ago

• Holiday Hijinks: Link Dump + Hello Kitty Monstrosities

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 142
  There are too many fun Christmas-related links for me to devote a separate post to each. So here they all are! Feast your eyes and sense of humor on: The bigger-than-the-house Christmas tree illusion 32 amazing gingerbread houses a tiny gingerbread house that sits on your coffee cup! The Tesla coil ...
  4 days ago

• Eating

  
  Authspot — Authority: 544
  You shape-shifter, you scientist, You practice alchemy, For every time you eat, You’re saying, this is what I want to be, Now turn this into me.
  4 days ago

• Fisheries and Aquaculture Face Multiple Risks from Climate Change

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 22, 2009) — A new report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, predicts "an ocean of change" for fishers and fish farmers. It concludes that urgent adaptation measures are required in response to opportunities and threats to food and livelihood provision ...
  4 days ago

• Serious News from a Serious News Source

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 865
  The International Space Station crew that blasted off from Kazakhstan early this morning will be the first people to eat sushi in space. I join Popular Science blogger Paul Adams in lamenting the fact that this Reuters story neglected important details such as the menu, and how one goes about preparing sushi in ...
  4 days ago

• FSIS seeks comments on meat nutrition labeling

  
  Nutrition & Healthy Cooking — Authority: 149
  The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has said it is seeking comments on proposed nutrition labeling of single ingredient ground or chopped meat and poultry products. See the original post: FSIS seeks comments on meat nutrition labeling
  5 days ago

• How to make Gin

  
  The Wild Drink Blog — Authority: 106
  Gin is a phenomenon. Somehow a very specifically flavoured spirit, originating from Holland, has become a staple product on every backbar. It only really dawned on me recently the magnitude of the feat. Whisky, rum, Tequila, Cognac and vodka are all spirits whose flavour are derived from the products that they are ...
  5 days ago

• Tomatoes can eat insects

  
  PID News — Authority: 150
  (Telegraph) – Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to “self-fertilise” themselves.New research shows that they capture and kill small insects with sticky hairs on their stems and then absorb nutrients through their roots when the animals ...
  5 days ago

• How shellfish saved the human race

  
  Later On — Authority: 454
  Maggie Koerth-Baker at Boing Boing : A couple hundred thousand years ago, the planet became a much colder and drier place. In Africa, deserts expanded, species were wiped out and the human race was in deep trouble. See, humans today may look pretty different from one another but, genetically speaking, there’s not ...
  5 days ago

• High-Fructose Corn Syrup and disease

  
  Later On — Authority: 454
  You knew it all along : A University of California study on human subjects seems to indicate what food activists have long believed: high fructose corn syrup has special qualities which cause humans to pork up like animals in a feed lot. Oh, and it also may help cause life-threatening chronic diseases. The study was ...
  5 days ago

• The Localization of Agriculture

  
  Sustainablog — Authority: 123
  by Lester R. BrownIn the United States, there has been a surge of interest in eating fresh local foods, corresponding with mounting concerns about the climate effects of consuming food from distant places and about the obesity and other health problems associated with junk food diets. This is reflected in the rise in ...
  6 days ago

• Moderate fish consumption ‘cuts heart failure risk’ (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): A new study has shown that moderate fish consumption can help preserve heart function in patients who have experienced heart failure.The researchers from University of Athens in Greece found that consuming fish one to two times per week can help reduce the risk of left ventricular systolic ...
  6 days ago

• GM wheat is on its way | Henry Miller and Colin Carter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Five years after scrapping its trials, Monsanto calculates that the time is now ripe for GM wheat to make a comeback Wheat is a critical staple crop, supplying much of the worlds dietary protein. In 2007 world production was 607m tonnes, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice. The grain is ...
  1 week ago

• Moderate fish consumption ‘cuts heart failure risk’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 19 (ANI): A new study has shown that moderate fish consumption can help preserve heart function in patients who have experienced heart failure.The researchers from University of Athens in Greece found that consuming fish one to two times per week can help reduce the risk of left ventricular systolic ...
  1 week ago

Comments about FOOD SCIENCE