There is some interesting research publicised by the Mail on Line from the University of Colorado showing that we consume forty times as much fructose as we did in the 1700s. Forty times as much fructose in just eleven or twelve generations is an awful lot of change and it unsurprising that most of us… Read more
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Angels to lose their American share
I was fascinated that there is an American startup called Bespoken Spirits that aims to “to precisely tailor spirits for aroma, color, and taste in just days.“ This relies on analysing the oak flavours required to flavour the spirit and thus compress the normal ageing process – and hence also the angels’ share – from… Read more
The reply to the ‘fat emperor’
Of the previous post – rather longer this time (with thanks to Samuel Johnson): To make it clear I agree with this criticism and have never accepted high rate of false positive statistics at face value. But I especially rate the criticism because it is based on what is happening inside hospitals. If intensive care… Read more
Convenience Foods
I’ll keep this short – but I would recommend this article in ‘The Grocer’ by food journalist, Joanna Blythman ‘Reformulation does not solve the problem of processed convenience foods.’ She is absolutely spot on – reducing a few select ingredients in what might be called ‘confected’ food, is useless. We need people to cook. And… Read more
The satire in how far we have come…
This, in the video below, is what the Brexiters originally told us. All of it has turned out to be lies: And yet this (below) is what Thatcher – rightly – said in the Tory Conference in Blackpool of 1971: It is true that she later got frustrated with the EU – but few haven’t… Read more
Conservatives are certainly no longer friends of business
‘Tory Fibs’ may see this as a moral choice – but it is actually rather simpler than that…. I certainly liked this question from Ian Blackford to Johnson at PMQ’s yesterday, stating that other nations (he could have pointed out, but didn’t, that all the comparitor nations were in the Eurozone and so had much… Read more
The EU and food poverty
There is here a rather interesting podcast with Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge and the Shadow Farming and Food Spokesman. He impressed me as being very much more in command of his brief than the actual minister, who is from a wealthy Cornish farming family and MP for Redruth and Camborne, the last a town… Read more
A spoonful of sugar substitute….
This article in the New York Times suggests some of the problems that sugar substitutes may provoke. It is an interesting read but the concluding commentary is the crux of the issue: Dr. Robert Lustig, an obesity expert and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, said that artificial sweeteners confuse the body:… Read more
Anyone for a banana monarchy of malevolent toffs?
The sub-optimal education that I referred to at the end of the previous piece seems to include the former Brexit MEP Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of the Leader of the House and equally self-entitled, who has been opining on the price of potatoes and the poor. She has received a powerful reply from none other than… Read more
Sub-optimal nourishment shows
For once I have to stray from my usual criticism! Henry Dimbleby’s Part One of National Food Strategy, commissioned by Michael Gove when in charge of Agriculture, is good and very encouraging – let us hope that this government (which is in large part devoid of original ideas) takes them up! I think it is… Read more