Unlocking the secrets of seaweed could have major benefits for human health.
Tag - food
Marco Garcia-Vaquero
Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen curiosity about food and plants. It may also...
Ian Street
More reasons to like plants
How helpful is healthy eating advice, if you don't have the money for making choices?
Nigel Chaffey
Plant Records: An ever increasing pot of gold
Name: Maize or Corn Scientific name: Zea mays Known for: Food of the Gods (or Blasphemy against them when in Corn Dogs) Record broken: Yields I expect most of you have limited direct experience with many of our other...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
80 shades of plants…
Around the world in 80 plants. Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications I normally have to request copies of books to review, but for this one I was invited to review a copy. Suitably intrigued by the book’s title...
Has leukaemia met its Waterloo?
Has leukaemia met its match? Avocados shows promising cytotoxic activity against acute myeloid leukaemia.
Fancy a cool slice of watermelon?
This study uncovers the north-eastern African origins of the dessert watermelon and concludes that it was is domesticated there over 4000 years ago.
AJ Cann
Don’t ignore the ‘orphans’!
The FAO has launched a ‘traditional crop of the month’ site to generate more appreciation of the nutritional – and often medical – benefits of food plants.
GM crops, quantity or quality…?
GM crops can help, not only with the quantity of food produced worldwide, but also the quality. Golden Rice has enhanced levels of β-carotene.
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
Spotlight on macronutrients (…and finally): Magnesium and a food fight…
Whilst incorporation of essential elements into the body of the plant is undoubtedly important for and to the wellbeing of the plant, their presence in those green organisms constitutes a major source of elements that...
Kew’s Global Kitchen Cookbook
Kew's Global Kitchen Cookbook is an illustrated celebration of the amazing variety of edible plants and how we can use them.
annbot
Plant science and the gluten-free diet
How do you make gluten-free bread? From gluten-free wheat, obviously.
Quinoa – Agricultural Policy and Bolivian Public Health
The search for healthy, gluten free, vegetarian alternatives to a traditional meat heavy diet has led to a massive increase in demand for the grain Quinoa.
