Food & Beverage
The $49.4 million lab, paid for by the state, is named in honor of the lab system’s founding director and professor emeritus Alex A. Ardans, who led the statewide diagnostic service for 21 years
This cycle may prevent young people from learning all they can about food safety
Results showed that in 2015, companies spent $77 million to advertise infant formula and baby and toddler foods and beverages to parents, primarily on TV, magazines and the Internet
Because of its alcohol content and the high temperatures required to make beer, most consumers might assume that contamination by biologically derived compounds is not an issue. But mycotoxins can survive the brewing process and end up in the final product.
Food allergy affects approximately 8 percent of children and up to 2 percent of adults
Consumer testing of 80 subjects who compared samples of both milk chocolates with peanut extracts and without showed that the fortified chocolates were liked as well as the untreated milk chocolate
Students and professor harvest 17 new and experimental varieties of pumpkins
The findings open the door to test this new allergy treatment in “humanized mice”
Discovery might allow scientists to create crop varieties better suited to warming world
Edible bugs might sound unappetizing to many Westerners, but they've long been included in traditional diets in other regions of the world
In these days of increased eating, obesity and diabetes, it’s important to know that children ages six to eight need only 1,200 to 1,600 calories a day
