After Sunday morning church services each week, members of St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church – a Russian Orthodox Church in Boise – break their fast with a communal potluck meal.
“It emphasizes the fact that we are a family, that our parish is a family É that we’re linked to one another, that we’re connected to one another,” Father David Moser said of the meal, called trapeza.
Those members of the church who hail from Russia and former Soviet republics regularly share favorite dishes from the old country with fellow congregants, …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has seized over 23,300 bottles of dietary supplement products, worth about $1.3 million, owing to a safety risk.
The federal agency stated that the all supplements would be destructed as they have unapproved food preservatives and-or new dietary components for which there is insufficient data to guarantee they do not present a significant or unreasonable threat of infection or injury.
The products, distributed by LG Sciences LLC of Brighton, Mich. — were commercialized for making use of by musclebuilders, and sold online and in retail stores …

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) — No melamine has been found by spot tests of raw milk conducted since last December across the nation, an official with the Health Ministry said on Monday.
    As of April 30, 68 tonnes of illegal food additives and 116.3 tonnes of excessively used food additives have been seized, Su Zhi, deputy director with the ministry’s food safety coordination and supervision bureau, told a press conference held in Beijing.
    The Chinese central government established a special law enforcement group involving nine departments last December for a …

Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion.
Like other forms of energy, food energy is expressed in calories or joules. Some countries use the kilogram calorie, which is equal to 1 kilocalorie (kcal), or 1,000 calories as normally defined. In the context of nutrition, and especially food labeling, the terms “calorie” and “kilocalorie” are interchangeable. In either case the unit is approximately equal to 4.1868 kilojoules (kJ). The kilojoule is the unit officially recommended by the World Health Organization[1] and other international organizations. In …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a budget of $3.2B to protect and promote the public health as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget – a 19 percent increase over the current FDA fiscal year budget.
The FY 2010 request, which covers the period of Oct. 1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010, includes increases of $295.2M in budget authority and $215.4M in industry user fees. The FDA budget proposes two major initiatives for FY 2010: Protecting America’s Food Supply and Safer Medical Products. It also includes …

Order a meal in any fast-food restaurant, and you’ll likely walk away with a sandwich, fries and a drink. If you had to identify the ingredients of this meal, you might list beef (or chicken), lettuce, tomato, cheese, ketchup, bread, potatoes and soda. Not complicated, right? Wrong.
Burger and chicken joints don’t think of the building blocks of a menu item as ingredients. They think of them as components, which are made of ingredients. For example, McDonald’s famous Big Mac jingle — “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, …

Hungry? Here’s a novel idea: Have a snack that actually satisfies.
“Most people don’t realize what a 200-calorie snack looks like,” says Hungry-Girl.com creator Lisa Lillien.
“They think, ‘Oh I’ll just eat this little energy bar,’ but you can actually have real food for that many calories.”
Lillien’s book “Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200” (St. Martin’s, $19.95), which hit shelves last week, features recipes under 200 calories that boast low-fat and other healthy ingredients.
But these aren’t the typical bland and boring diet-food ingredients.
Take her Every Day Is Thanksgiving Salad, which has holiday ingredients …

Visitors were scarce at the Guangdong Dongtai Dairy Products booth during the third phase of the 105th China Import and Export Fair, also called the Canton Fair.
The third phase of China’s largest trade event began Sunday and ended Thursday.
Xu Haoming, who’s in charge of external trade for Dongtai, said he wasn’t surprised by the lack of visitors.
Based in the Jiedong economic development zone of south China’s Guangdong Province, Dongtai specializes in dairy products such as baby milk powder. It exports to Asian and African countries.
Demand has fallen because of the …

Soft drinks
Almost every one of us has had a period of their live when we slept with the cola bottle on the nightstand. But just one cup contains about 150 calories, the equivalent of 10 spoons of sugar, 30-35 mg of caffeine, food additives and colorants. And the light versions of soft drinks are as toxic if not more as the normal beverage because of the artificial sweeteners used. Studies have proven that some artificial sweeteners can favor the development of cancer in the human body. The consumption of soft …

Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or slaughtered and butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, marketable and often long-life food products. Similar process are used to produce animal feed.
Extreme examples of food processing include the delicate preparation of deadly fugu fish or preparing space food for consumption …