Pedro Perez’s food brims with bacteria, just the way he likes it.
For the past two years, the Stillwater resident has been fermenting his own food, making homemade yogurt, sauerkraut, sourdough bread and kimchi (a traditional Korean vegetable side dish) on his kitchen counter.
The fermentation process — which Perez describes as easy and money-saving — is older than recorded history. Today, it’s gaining favor among people who want to take advantage of its health benefits, including heaps of helpful bacteria known as probiotics. The fermentation revival is also getting a boost …

Uncooked meat products enhanced with food additives may contain high levels of phosphorous and potassium that are not discernable from inspection of food labels, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). This can make it difficult for people to limit dietary phosphorous and potassium that at high levels are harmful to kidney disease patients.
 
Kidney disease patients on dialysis must watch their intake of dietary phosphate so that their blood phosphate levels do not rise. This is important because …

Washington, D.C. – An effort to improve the safety of fruits, vegetables and processed foods is running into objections from a broad collection of farm interests, including livestock producers, organic farmers and small-scale growers.
A bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June would give the Food and Drug Administration more authority over the 80 percent of the food supply the agency is responsible for regulating.
The food administration, which regulates most foods except for meat and poultry, would be required to set safety standards for fruit and vegetable …

The dog food that you buy your dog is more than just a meal. What your dog eats impacts his health and it can even make him sick. As a concerned dog owner, you must take your time to choose dog food that is high quality and that does not contain ingredients that could harm your dog’s health.
It can often be difficult to tell if a dog food is high quality just by looking at it. It is really not about how the food looks as much as it is …

Things are not as simple as they used to be. There was a time when any food a grocer sold was suitable to feed to the family. Nowadays, many of the products on the shelves can’t really be said to be food. Preservatives, additives, flavors, colors and shapes pollute our food sources in ways even the saviest of consumers can’t know about.
Breakfast cereal, for example, touts the benefits of whole grains and vitamins but at the same time is an extruded food, meaning it was processed so intensely that it …