The science of food – Page 19
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Podcast
Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell? by Andy Brunning – Book club
In this podcast, we learn why does asparagus make your wee smell, as we discuss Andy Brunning’s new book
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Feature
Well-tempered chocolate
Nina Notman discovers that controlling crystal structures and emulsions is the key to good chocolate
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Research
Chlorinated compounds form in tea and coffee
Treated water reacts with organics to form disinfection byproducts
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News
European food safety body finds glyphosate 'unlikely' to cause cancer
Report sits at odds with WHO viewpoint and may lead to introduction of dosage limits
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Research
GM tomato is a factory for healthy nutrients
Researchers hope resveratrol-rich tomatoes will give GM food a healthier image
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Research
Uncorking the chemical potential of wine waste
Sustainable technologies combined to make grapes go further
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News
Pepsi sets limit on caramel colouring chemical
Firm establishes legal threshold for the caramel food colouring by-product 4-MEI that California lists as a carcinogen
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Podcast
Sodium azide
Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly’s patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-laced iced tea
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News
Chemistry Ig Nobel goes to ‘un-boiled' egg
Australian scientists pick up ‘improbable research’ prize for work on re-folding denatured proteins
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News
NIH backs natural products research
The US National Institutes of Health will fund new research centres investigating botanical supplements to the tune of $35M
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Research
Purple bacteria signal zinc deficiency
Low-cost bacterial ‘litmus test’ could help identify nutrient-deficient populations
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Podcast
Chemistry World podcast – September 2015
In this months podcast, we discuss Ebola and malaria vaccines in the pipeline, the history of peer review, and managing the mountain of chemical data
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Research
Alternative nutraceutical delivery method proposed
Alternatives address safety concerns about surfactant-based emulsifiers
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News
‘Drinkable book’ quenches thirst for water purification solution
Silver-doped cellulose pages can be used as filters to remove harmful bacteria
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Research
Antioxidant assumptions flipped for garlic thiosulfinates
A radical view on the nutritional value and chemical mechanism of allicin and petivericin
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Research
Sugar supresses as well as masks caffeine’s bitter flavour
Sucrose–caffeine interaction found to affect taste
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Research
Zeolite packaging to fight durian fruit stench
Cheap odour-eating films can capture nasty smells and could soon find their way into clothing as well as food wrapping