Interesting Food – Sugar
According to Public Health England, kids in the UK eat more than half of their recommended sugar intake – at breakfast! (The culprit? All those sugary breakfast cereals with cartoon characters on the packaging. (Are you listening Tony?) What is even more worrying is that 80% of parents think sugary cereals are healthy.)
Interesting Food – Coffee
Mathematicians from the University of Limmerick are working out a mathematical formula for the perfect cup of coffee. (They have found that size does matter, and flavour is linked to the coffee grain’s surface are. The method of extraction describes the movement of the coffee from its solid form as a bean into its liquid form when […]
Interesting Food – Marmite
Marmite is quintessentially British, but did you know it wasn’t invented by a Brit? It was invented by a German. (Justus von Liebig was looking for an inexpensive nutrition source for the poor of Europe, and his discovery that yeast could be concentrated and eaten, led to the manufacture of Marmite. I’m not sure if […]
Interesting Food – Cake
According to the Professor Nigel Hunt at the Royal College of Surgeons, “cake culture” in the UK workplace is fuelling the obesity epidemic and contributing to poor dental health. (As a healthy alternative they are suggesting that workers should bring fruit platters into the office instead of doughnuts, cookies and biscuits. He said, “Cake culture […]
Interesting Food – Food Waste
Anyone who was attended the sessions on food waste in Kitely will not be surprised to learn that supermarket giant Tesco has revealed that it generated 59,400 tonnes of food waste in 2015. (To put this into perspective this is the equivalent of nearly 119 million meals. In their defense, they are the only supermarket […]