There are many reasons that some people choose to shop and eat a completely organic range of foods, but the primary reason seems to center around the additives in various non-organic food items. Those additives have been studied and linked to various diseases, and instead of taking the chance that unhealthy preservatives and flavorings might be integrated into grocery store items, people often opt for the strictly organic route so as to avoid them altogether.
But everyone cannot afford the prices of organic foods or the time it takes to shop …

CHICAGO – (Business Wire) The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) gathered in Anaheim, CA from June 6-9 to learn about innovative new food and beverage products launched around the globe. Leading market research company, Mintel, had close to 100 products on display that represented three trend categories of sweeteners, purity and functional foods. Following daily presentations, the products were used in a taste test, where attendees tasted the products and voted on their favorites.
“It’s always exciting to see the outcome of the taste tests, but with so many unique products …

 Wine making can be an enjoyable hobby. You get to make your own flavor of wines and at the same time appreciate the process of making it. Wine making can be difficult at first just like anything that you are engaged to. You just have to get the right equipments and the right ingredients before you can perfect the whole process. Patience is also needed when you want to engage yourself in wine making. The process of making wines is really long due to the fermentation of the fruit. Since …

GUANGZHOU: More than half of the beverages, tissues and women’s sanitary products on sale in the markets of Guangdong province are “substandard”, with a number of them even “dangerous to consumers’ health”, tests conducted by authorities on over 200 products showed.
The provincial administration bureau of industry and commerce conducted tests on 202 products of beverages, bottled water, tissues and sanitary products, and found that only “49 percent” of them met the government’s hygiene standard during the manufacturing process, said Xiao Yangwu, director of the bureau’s consumer’s rights protection office.
However, the …

By DEAN P. JONES, PhD
• Professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and director of the Emory Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory.
Supplements that claim to help maintain healthy memory, alertness, immune function, protection from infection, healthy joints, youthful vigor, etc., offer many options for consumers to help manage their own health. They also raise questions about effectiveness and possible side effects.
Some history: The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, enacted by Congress in 1994, defined “dietary supplement” and allowed manufacturers to make claims about a product’s ability to affect the structure …