Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a food additive that was discovered in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda, a chemist at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Shortly after he isolated MSG, he joined his friend, Dr. Saburosuke Suzuki and formed Ajinomoto, the famous company that started the MSG craze. A few years later, millions of Japanese started to used this food enhancer. After World War 2, MSG also became very popular in the United States and many western countries. Today MSG is added to a wide variety of food, such as soups, …

WHEN buying food these days, some Chinese consumers are nervous at the mere mention of food additives.
Their concern is understandable given numerous incidents, from KFC’s Sudan I (carcinogenic food coloring)-tainted food in 2005 to the Sanlu Group’s melamine-contaminated infant milk powder and milk products (causing kidney stones) last year.
Caution is required, but extreme aversion is unnecessary. Consumers should inform themselves about additives, not eat too much of any one kind, eat a varied diet and go for fresh unprocessed food whenever possible. Some additives, of course, are necessary as preservatives …

SPRINGDALE – Jon “Jed” Dreisker, vice president and general manager of Dancing Bear Ingredients in Bartlesville, Okla., showed off dehydrated mushrooms from J-M Farms of Miami, Okla., a product and firm he is representing to food processors.
Dreisker’s company is an industrial food ingredient broker serving food processors and manufacturers in the south-central part of the country.
He was among more than 70 exhibitors Wednesday at the 103rd Annual Convention of the Ozark Food Processors Association at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Springdale.
Companies Dreisker sells from are those that make ingredients …

Most home winemakers have experienced refermentation of off-dry wines after bottling.  This can be very annoying, as it can cause corks to blow out; also, the resultant fizzy wines are yeasty and not always to one’s taste.  Uncorking the wine and letting it continue its ferment to dryness in a carboy is an unnecessary waste of time, so the usual way of preventing bottle refermentation from happening is to introduce potassium sorbate (sorbate) before bottling.  Understand that sorbate does not kill the yeast; it merely inhibits renewed yeast activity under …

So, Baby B is getting older. This is nothing new. It seems to happen to every baby, and I can do nothing to stop him from crawling or walking or talking or riding a bike. He is going to accomplish all of this someday, breaking his momma’s heart as he makes each new milestone.
Let me just tell you I had *tears* in my eyes today when I picked up his monogrammed Easter outfit. It was just so moving (for some reason) to see his initials on that blue-and-white-checkered jumper. I …

Because pesticides on crops and growth hormones in livestock has been used freely now it’s proven to hurt babies’ health because of this organic baby food sales have increased 10 fold. Small bodies do not have the immune system strength and brain development yet and this can be affected by diet. When pesticide residue on fruits & vegetables or growth hormones from milk are introduced, the little developing systems of babies may compromise.
The Federal pesticide Standards are Cold Comfort
The late 1990’s brought a growth to the organic industry as well …

Recently, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine department found that a number of Japan food additives’ retention period has expired. According to the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, inspection and quarantine department destroied the food additives.
It is reported that the Japanese food additives are imported by a Shaoxing company. The specific name is vitamin E, for the dehydration drying Pleurotus production and processing.

Greenfield, IN., April 7, 2009 ?Elanco is pleased that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has aligned with 26 other regulatory authorities in determining that “… ractopamine is not mutagenic and is not likely to present a carcinogenic risk to consumers.” “The safety of Ractopamine for use in swine and beef has been well established through rigorous scientific studies and regulatory reviews,” notes Dr. William Weldon, Senior Director of Research and Development for Elanco.1,2,3
 
Further, “Elanco looks forward to meeting with EFSA scientific experts to address their technical questions on study …

Take a moment to pause and consider what it is you are eating on a daily basis.  More and more people are trying to consume a healthy diet these days.  Just what constitutes a healthy diet is a matter of great contention.  Many including myself contend that limiting your exposure to pesticides, food additives and genetically modified (GM or GMO) foods is a good start and thus have begun eating organic foods.  In order to eat only healthy natural foods we must first determine, how organic is organic?  Will organic …

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, April 8 (Reuters) – It dresses salads, fuels cars and fries foods, and now the canola plant is muscling in on soy with plans for the first commercial production of its protein as a food additive.
Two Canadian companies, Bio Extraction Inc (BXI.V). (BioExx) and Burcon Nutrascience Corp (BU.V), are aiming to become the first in the world to produce high-value proteins for food from the part of the canola crop that has the lowest value.
Canola seed is crushed mostly for its oil, for use as a cooking oil …