Last year The State of California updated its list of known carcinogens to include 4-methylimidazole (4-MI). Studies have shown it to cause leukemia as well as cancerous tumors in the respiratory system. Why are we mentioning 4-MI? Well, its found in every can … Continue reading
One of the interesting sessions earlier this week at the annual dietitians’ conference FNCE was a 2 sided discussion entitled “Sweet Scrutiny: Debating the Research on Nutritive and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners”. Why do we emphasize 2 sides? because not all sessions … Continue reading
Happy 4th of July everyone! We’d rather it be called Independence Day, because that is what we have been celebrating for the past 200 years, not a date 7/04. As we head to cookouts, picnics, bar-b-ques and other food related … Continue reading
Have you seen the ridiculous commercial sponsored by the beverage industry? The one where Dr. Pepper, Coke, Pepsi, and SunnyD pat themselves on the back for having stopped deceptive labeling after 20 years? For years, you’d buy a 20 fl … Continue reading
This is a guest blog post by Kiyah Duffey, PhD. In a petition to the FDA last September, the Corn Refiners Association urged the regulatory agency to consider an alternative name for use on product labels: allowing the use of … Continue reading
No. Of course not. Of the twelve food commercials during yesterday’s superbowl, all were for junk food and liquid candy: Coke Pepsi Lipton Brisk Doritos Snickers What you need to know: Let’s just say outright that we enjoyed the commercials … Continue reading
The American Heart Association’s Circulation Magazine just published a report which concludes with something everyone already knows: Consumption of added sugars among US adolescents is positivelyassociated with multiple measures known to increase cardiovasculardisease risk. read more… Researchers from the CDC … Continue reading
The year is ending, and we thought it would be interesting to see what our community has read the most in 2010. Here are our most popular posts from 10 up on to 1: 1862 – 2010: A Brief History … Continue reading
It’s been a month since we launched the Fooducate iphone app. That’s enough time to start seeing some trends. We wondered which products are the most popular. Here then is the list of top ten scans: 1. Nutella – Hazelnut … Continue reading
In the week since we’ve released the fooducate iPhone app, people have been using it to scan tens of thousands of items. We have over 160,000 unique products in our database, and it was interesting to see which would get … Continue reading