Healthy Food Looks Serious: How Children Interpret Packaged Food Products

The Impact of Packaged Food on Children\'s Health: Strategies to Overcome

Background: Packaged foods are often high in sugar, salt, fat, additives, preservatives, artificial colours and flavours and low in nutrients. These factors may lead to weight gain, delayed growth and development, type 2 diabetes, damage to the teeth, food poisoning, and many other health problems. This short commentary has critically examined the effects of packaged food on children's health a...

Today's Food System: How Healthy Is It?

With its focus on the quantity of production, often to the exclusion of other goals, today's food system is on an unsustainable course. The problem begins with and is driven by industrialized production of both crops and animals. Industrialization is a product of technological change, public policy, and, most recently, globalized trade. The lack of sustainability derives from reliance on the in...

Microbial Assessment of Pre-packaged Food

The present study was conducted to check the microbiological safety of pre-packaged foods during January 2011 to April 2011. A total of 30 randomly collected samples from retail outlets were subjected for presence of microorganisms and total viable count. Out of 30 samples 28 (93.2%) showed the growth, Total Viable count ranged from 4 x 10 to 2.5 x 10 CFU/g. Among positive samples 57.14% were G...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Processing , Products , and Food Safety : Processing , Products and Food Safety

The humerus is often used to assess skeletal health in laying hens. It usually contains an airsac in the central cavity, but studies have demonstrated that the humeri of some hens do contain medullary bone. This study used radiographs to compare the incidence of increased radiodensity in the central cavity of humeri between lines of highproducing non-commercial laying hens. Hens of six lines (n...