The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded the regional 2013 President’s Environmental Youth Award to twenty-one students from St. Mary Episcopal School’s Beyond the Classroom group in north Edmond, Okla. and ...
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Ready-meal brand Lean Cuisine has launched a new Asian Soups range, which it said could be heated and ready to serve in five minutes. Lean Cuisine's new product range is available in four flavours – Thai Dumpling, Malaysian Chicken ...
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American food company Dole has launched Dole Power Up Greens, a new line of packaged greens that can be used in a range of salads, smoothies, stir-fry dishes, among others. The new range includes Dole Power Up Baby Kale, Dole Power Up ...
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Subway has added baby spinach to its permanent salad menu Subway Restaurants has expanded its range of salad offering to Australian customer with the addition of free baby spinach to its permanent lineup of sandwich fillings. Subway ...
Mom was right when she said to eat spinach to be healthier and now researchers in Sweden find an extract from the green plants may make people thinner. Professor Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson at Lund University in Sweden said thylakoid, ...
Plum Organics is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of two varieties of its World Baby line of pouch products due to intermittent damage to the plastic spouts during manufacturing. There is a possibility that small fragments could ...
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Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. is recalling select Organic Baby Spinach products over concerns they may be contaminated with (EHEC) Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Symptoms of the diseases caused by EHEC include abdominal cramps and ...
Kitchen appliance manufacturer Sharp Australia has launched the Sharp Slow Juicer — the Company’s first “slow” juicer, and part of the new Sharp Australia small appliance range. Sharp Australia said the new juicer ...
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I am betting your response to the headline was the same as when I read the news: HUH? The proposed Farm Bill has finally gathered the bicameral and bipartisan support of a conference committee. Food Safety News recently reported that ...
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It is indeed becoming curiouser and curiouser (to quote Alice in Wonderland) that this discussion should focus so one-sidedly on our lowly alfalfa crop. Even the National Geographic article implies that the quantity of 'water' exported with ...
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US-based Frontier Soups has added a new Comfort Soup Four Pack of soup mixes with comfort food favorites. The new pack combines foods, including corn chowder, Italian wedding soup, chicken noodle soup, and savory chicken stew. It is ...
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The Malaysia Kitchen Program USA under the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), has newly appointed Christina Arokiasamy as Malaysia's Food Ambassador to the U.S. As a spice expert and acclaimed cookbook author, ...
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Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, people get sick from eating food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 48 million of us get sick each year, with 125,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Many of ...
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The number of Americans with Alzheimer's is projected to triple by 2050. While there isn't a cure for Alzheimer's, certain lifestyle changes can help prevent cognitive decline. MySilverAge.com recommends three foods that can help prevent ...
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Dairy producer WhiteWave Foods has announced plans to pay about $600 million to purchase Earthbound Farm, the largest organic produce brand in the U.S. Earthbound Farm was the producer behind the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak that ...