by Molly Callahan, Northeastern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Paparazzi caught Heidi Montag, the former star of the television show, “The Hills,” walking around the streets of Los Angeles with a peculiar snack this week—a raw bison heart in a plastic bag. (Stars: They’re just like us!) Montag, who also has filmed herself eating a...
IMAGE: THE FOOD COMPASS NUTRIENT PROFILING SYSTEM, DEVELOPED BY RESEARCHERS AT THE FRIEDMAN SCHOOL AT TUFTS, INCORPORATES CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE ON HOW CHARACTERISTICS OF MORE THAN 8,000 FOODS POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY IMPACT HEALTH. CREDIT: TUFTS UNIVERSITY A scientific team at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts has developed a new tool to...
by Janet Kiplinger Ciccone, The Ohio State University In a question-and-answer session, Ohio State University assistant professor Sanja Ilic answers some of the crucial questions people are asking about how to keep their food safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Ilic is an assistant professor of human nutrition in the Department of Human Sciences, College of...
by Mark Derewicz, University of North Carolina Health Care People allergic to peanuts may have a new way to protect themselves from severe allergic reactions to accidental peanut exposure. It’s called sublingual immunotherapy—or SLIT—and it involves putting a miniscule amount of liquefied peanut protein under the tongue, where it is absorbed immediately into the blood...
By Christine Byrne Avoid these common slipups to enjoy your food without risk of foodborne illness. Some food safety rules are pretty intuitive: Wash your hands before and after cooking. Store perishables in the fridge. Don’t leave groceries in your car in the hot sun. Then there’s a whole other set of rules, the ones that aren’t so obvious and...
