Cooled Cooked Food: A Simple Dietary Strategy for Blood Sugar Management
Starch, which has a high glycaemic index upon cooking, can undergo recrystallisation and turn into resistant starch upon cooling, resulting
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Food
Targeting Indian snacks without introducing front-of-package labels for HFSS products is a clear half measure
If the Health Ministry is indeed serious in promoting healthy dietary habits, why has it failed to introduce clear front-of-package labels to caution consumers of food products loaded with sugar, salt and/or saturated fat products? And why has it done nothing to regulate adversiments and promotion of unhealthy food?
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India to meet WHO trans fat limit a year in advance
While trans fat is naturally present in red meat and dairy products, the focus is on restricting the industrially produced
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Presence of colistin-resistant bacteria of food origin in the gut is cause for worry
A small study has found evidence of colistin-resistant bacteria in the gut. 77% of such bacteria were found to be
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Enforcing fast foods sale ban near schools will be a tall order
Though sale and advertisement of tobacco products within 100 yards of a school is prohibited, violation is more a norm
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Aflatoxin in milk raises safety concerns
Of the over 6,400 samples collected from 1,100 towns/cities in India, 93% were found to be safe. But 5.7% had
Read MoreCholera bacteria from India show high drug-resistance
The 443 cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae isolates isolated from patients from Kolkata and Delhi show very high drug resistance to 22
Read MoreIndia develops new groundnut lines with desirable oil quality
A team of scientists from ICAR, ICRISAT and State Agriculture Universities has developed new groundnut lines that have up to
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Adding egg or milk can reduce stunting in young children in India
Adding 200 ml of milk or milk products (including curd), an egg or 45 grams of legume (dal) to the
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Washing does not remove Salmonella bacteria from tomatoes, IISc team finds
IISc researchers have found that tomatoes get infected with Salmonella typhimurium, which cause gastroenteritis, when the bacteria enter the plant through
Read MoreDST gives a boost to solar cooking, invites designs
DST has instituted Grand Challenge Awards for designing solar cooking solutions at both household and community level and is inviting
Read MoreMechanism of colistin resistance in food Klebsiella bacteria unravelled
Researchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism
Read MorePodcast: Increasing the longevity of C. elegans
Arnab Mukhopadhyay explains how the longevity of C. elegans was increased 40-60% by using a gene-diet pairing in a mutant. The lifespan increased
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