May 13th, 2012 
Elie Ayrouth It’s a time honored rule that has often been question and debated: when food falls to the ground, how many seconds can it lay there before it becomes crawling with bacteria and filth?
Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University conducted their own experiment to test the three-second rule and found…
May 10th, 2012 Elie Ayrouth Washington University is conducting a study on obesity, and as part of the process, the school is offering participants the opportunity to eat all the fast food they want everyday for three months. They’ll even get paid $3,500 for their trouble.
Trouble is the catch — the study will…
May 3rd, 2012 Isai Rocha It might be a good idea to lay off the sushi for a while as it has been doing damage across the United States. As of May 2, a reported 258 people in 24 different states and the District of Columbia have gotten sick from two different strands of…
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No Comments » April 29th, 2012 Lucia Phan Do know where your red food coloring comes from? Chances are that “natural red coloring” comes from bugs — female cochineal insects to be exact. It takes about 70,000 of those little critters to produce a pound of dye.
If that sounds a little too…
April 27th, 2012 Elie Ayrouth Early last year, what seemed like a frivolous law suit from a mother claiming Nutella‘s advertising led her to believe the chocolate spread she was feeding her 4-year-old child was healthy, turned out to be not-so-frivolous after all. In fact, the class-action lawsuit has been…
April 19th, 2012 Elie Ayrouth Healthy, happy employees are long-lasting employees, and Google knows that as fact. It’s no secret that Google spends well-known amounts of time and money on offering their employees with spectacular dining options, but who knew that they had a special HR department dedicated to analyzing and nudging employees into executing better eating decisions,…
April 10th, 2012 Tiffany Rider It’s a sign of the times – vegan diets are growing in popularity beyond hippie health food store employees.
A little over 1 percent of Americans are following a vegan or vegetarian diet, according to a 2006 poll by Harris Interactive. Vegetarians typically avoid meat, but eat other animal-based…
March 28th, 2012 Elie Ayrouth With all this jabber about the usage of “pink slime” in our meat supply and recent studies (arguably not very new) that point to the destructiveness of consuming red meat, it’s only fitting someone would come along and create a thoroughly simple infographic entitled “Eat Meat &…
March 27th, 2012 Peter Pham No, it’s not Easter magic. It’s science. A study that was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that states among a group of 1,000 Californians, ranging from the ages of 20 to 85, the inviduals who eat more chocolate tend to have a lower BMI (Body Mass…
March 10th, 2012 Lucia Phan Imagine if you could tell if the inside of a watermelon has gone bad just by waving your smartphone over it? Well now you can! Thanks to biomedical engineers at Tufts University who have now created edible spoilage indicators that are activated by smartphones.
How…
