What’s In Our Food?

Andy Fell — April 09, 2024 - 2:48pm

We know surprisingly little about the molecules that make up our food. Now the Periodic Table of Food Initiative has published a list of 1,650 foodstuffs from around the world for rigorous biochemical analysis. About two-thirds of the foods on the list are not included in any globally recognized food composition database.

An article describing the list was published March 8 in Nature Food.

Bifidobacteria Supplement Colonizes Gut of Breastfed Infants

Andy Fell — June 09, 2018 - 4:44pm

Supplementing breastfed infants with activated Bifidobacterium infantis (B. infantis) bacteria had a positive impact on babies’ gut microbes for up to a year, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Evolve BioSystems Inc.

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What’s In Our Food?

Bifidobacteria Supplement Colonizes Gut of Breastfed Infants