Category Archives: Food

Get your kids into the kitchen and feed them for life

By doris | Published: February 19, 2012

Full Story at Eatocracy.CNN.com It’s a sweet, sticky, crunchy, ooey-gooey, chocolate-drizzled, cheese-stuffed, deep-fried world out there, and we can’t pretend it doesn’t tastes pretty darned delicious. Nearly from birth, American kids are blasted with ads for foods that send their taste buds into overdrive, but don’t do them any nutritional favors. These treats might be [...]

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Cake for breakfast? Study says go for it

By doris | Published: February 13, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com Good news for the kid in you: Not only can you eat cake for breakfast, doing so may actually help you keep weight off, a new study suggests. In the study, obese participants who ate a breakfast high in protein and carbohydrates that included a dessert were better able to stick [...]

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McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat

By doris | Published: February 1, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com McDonald’s confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives — in its hamburger meat. The company denied that its decision was influenced by a months-long campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to get ammonium-hydroxide-treated meats like chicken and [...]

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Students to see healthier school lunches under new USDA rules

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at usnews.msnbc.msn.com Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity. “Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step in building [...]

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Coca-Cola says it told gov’t about fungicide in OJ

By doris | Published: January 13, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Coca-Cola Co. acknowledged Thursday it was the company that alerted federal regulators about low levels of fungicide in its own orange juice and in competitors’ juice, prompting juice prices to rise and increased government testing for the residue. The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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It’s National Pizza Week! How to find the perfect slice

By doris | Published: January 11, 2012

Full Story at Bites.today.msnbc.msn.com Colin Hagendorf is a venerable slice expert. The Brooklyn native recently completed his quest to eat at every pizza slice joint in Manhattan, chronicling his 370-plus slice binge on his blog Slice Harvester. In honor of National Pizza Week, Hagendorf, 28, offers his tips for finding pizza nirvana. “All of your [...]

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Cheese recalled due to possible contamination

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WESTBY, Wis. — Bekkum Family Farms LLC of Westby, Wis., is recalling shredded cheese due to a possible bacterial contamination. The state agriculture department said Wednesday the cheese is labeled “Grumpy Goat Shreds” under the Nordic Creamery brand name.

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Waiting for midnight, hungry families on food stamps give Walmart ‘enormous spike’

By doris | Published: November 28, 2011

Full Story at RockCentemsnbc.msn.com At the stroke of midnight, a growing number of Americans are lining up at Walmart not to cash in on a holiday sale, but because they’re hungry. The increasing number of Americans relying on food stamps to survive the sluggish economic recovery has changed the way the largest retailer in the [...]

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Report: 1 in 5 U.S. children at risk of hunger

By doris | Published: November 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Students gathered as the chef sliced tomatoes with a plastic knife in a Brooklyn public school cafeteria. Their eyes followed as she held up a slender green cylinder before the crowd of parents and kids in plastic aprons and hairnets. “What’s that?” kids shouted. “It’s a scallion. [...]

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Good News at Last: Chocolate Is Good for You! Maybe

By doris | Published: October 30, 2011

Full Story at The Atlantic.com In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the British Medical Journal offers some cheery news. A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on chocolate and health concludes that the flavonol antioxidants in chocolate reduce the risk for cardiometabolic disorders such as heart disease and stroke–by a whopping one-third. As the investigators [...]

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Dirty equipment blamed for deadly outbreak in cantaloupe

By doris | Published: October 19, 2011

Full Story a tmsnbc.msn.com Potentially contaminated processing equipment and problems with packing and storage of whole cantaloupes at a Colorado farm likely led to the deadliest listeria outbreak in the United States in 25 years, which has so far claimed 25 lives in a dozen states, federal health regulators said Wednesday. Pools of water on [...]

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Sanford Joint Offers Up Unique, Gut Busting Burgers

By doris | Published: August 4, 2011

Full Story at WMTW.com Burger Joint serves nearly two-dozen different kind of burgers, including a peanut butter and jelly burger and a burger served on a glazed donut. The mother and son who’ve teamed up to create these concoctions said they were inspired by the many cable television shows featuring off-the-wall food. “Because a lot [...]

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Rolling restaurants: Some cities floor it, others tap the brakes

By doris | Published: July 26, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com SEATTLE — Craving a gourmet meal on the fly? Food trucks plying American streets are delivering increasingly varied and sophisticated fare to the urban palate. Mobile kitchens offer hamburgers made from grass-fed cows, artisan breads, ethnic blends like Korean tacos and gourmet dishes that stand up next to fine fare from [...]

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Now this is super-sizing! A 1,500-seat McDonald’s

By doris | Published: July 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — Talk about super-sizing! For the 2012 London Olympics, fast-food giant McDonald’s will be building its biggest restaurant ever. The 32,000 square-foot, two-story facility will have seating for 1,500 hungry spectators – and athletes. It’s one of four temporary McDonald’s to be constructed for the Olympics, including one in the [...]

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15 Food Companies That Serve You ‘Wood’

By doris | Published: July 7, 2011

Full Story at 15 TheStreet.com McDonald’s (MCD) uses cellulose in the following products:Fish Filet PattyMcRibPremium Caesar SaladChipotle BBQ Snack WrapPremium Southwest Salad with Grilled ChickenSouthern Style Chicken BiscuitStrawberry SundaeNatural Swiss Cheese (used in McRib, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Angus Mushroom & Swiss, Premium Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich, Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich, Angus Mushroom & [...]

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Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of [...]

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E. coli death toll rises to 31; sprouts traced to trash in home

By doris | Published: June 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Berlin (CNN) — Four more deaths have been confirmed by German health officials Friday bringing the total number of European deaths from an E. coli outbreak to 31. All but one were in Germany. According to German health authorities the bacteria has been traced to sprouts found in a North Rhine-Westphalia [...]

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Easy vegetables to grow

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com Planting a garden doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. But the fear of failure keeps many a gardener-wannabe from spending time and energy on planting backyard crops. Knowing the easy vegetables to grow for your region — in addition to when and where to plant them — is the best [...]

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7 tons of ground beef recalled due to possible E. coli

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A Kansas company has recalled more than 14,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination, federal authorities have announced. The recalled meat, sold in large packages and distributed in numerous states, comes from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kansas. Some 14,158 pounds of beef, [...]

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Starbucks unveils a new logo

By doris | Published: January 5, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Starbucks Corp. debuted a logo Wednesday that brings the iconic green Siren out of the circle and drops the words “Starbucks Coffee.” Just a few hours later, the backlash against the change started building on both Starbucks’ website and other social media platforms such as Facebook.

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