Jenny Mealing
We can tweak levels of a special vitamin that acts as an appetite control system.
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Humans are programmed to chose colourful, symmetrical food. But ugly alternatives are cheap and cut waste.
Foods may not have the effect you’re after but at least they won’t ruin your night.
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We still look to plants, animals and foods to increase sexual desire, prowess or pleasure. But the scientific evidence shows experimenting with “natural” supplements can be risky.
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Talking cows, talking pigs? It’s enough to send you vegetarian. Maybe …
Nutritional lunches can be achieved with simple core foods such as bread, fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat, fish or egg.
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Basic foods can fulfil a child’s nutritional needs at school and keep them energetic and alert.
The burgers that had people lining up around the block in Sydney.
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Pop-up stores allow retailers to test demand for their product, while playing on customers FoMO - fear of missing out.
Pleasure at the table, pleasure in life.
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If New Year’s resolutions have you in an abstemious mindset when it comes to enjoyment these days, consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l'éducation du gout.’
Genetically modified soybeans.
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Scientists are developing GM crops that don’t need pesticides and other chemicals to help them grow. Isn’t that what organic farmers want too?
Rotten to the core. Can Paris help create a less wasteful food system?
Maggie Houtz
The food on our tables is central to the #COP21 debate and any Paris agreement must help build a system that moves us a long way from our current habits.
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Why are half of European Union members opting out of GMO crops? Hint: it’s not about food and environmental safety.
Low food miles: a farmers market in Pennsylvania.
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Food is a big part of everyone’s carbon footprint – about the same as electricity use. How can our diet make farming more planet-friendly?
Dutch painter Pieter Claesz’s Still Life with Turkey Pie (1627) features a cooked turkey that’s been placed back inside its original skin, feathers and all.
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Most of the flavor combinations and traditions we’ve come to associate with the holiday date back to the Middle Ages.
The savory tastes so closely associated with Thanksgiving recall umami, which was ‘discovered’ more than 100 years ago by a Japanese chemist.
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When you enjoy the delicious, savory foods of Thanksgiving, you’re experiencing umami, the fifth taste, with a little-known history rooted in Japan.
Chewing your food for longer gives your brain more time to realise you’re full, meaning you’re less likely to overeat.
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While 32 is an arbitrary number, chewing your food for longer could actually aid weight loss.
Some people are sensitive to the effects of food additives.
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The numbers listed on your packaged foods replace the chemical or common name of food additives. These are used to enhance the colour, flavour, texture or prevent them from spoiling.
Let them eat cake, but remember: food has a political life of its own.
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Kitchen Cabinet’s staging of “casual” food preparation with the nation’s most powerful people reproduces a culture of white Australian entitlement to master and consume any and every cultural product.
Part of the ongoing debate: some papaya growers in Hawaii have planted a strain that has been genetically modified to resist a virus.
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What explains the huge gap between US and European consumers on GMO foods? A short history helps explain.
Australia can balance energy, water and food needs with the environment.
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We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
Take your spinach, Popeye. Fortified flour can deliver more of the iron we need.
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In a World Series of nutrition, don’t leave iron on the bench. Fortifying flour can prevent the iron deficiency anemia that affects hundreds of millions of women and children globally.
Applying the finishing touches to some toasted chilli crickets & wild garlic hummus on rye bread.
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Insects are a healthy and sustainable source of protein. It’s time foodies appreciated them too.