Allergens & Prepared foods
- At October 30, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Food allergies can be serious even life-threatening. Most prepared foods list major allergens like eggs, milk, soy, and wheat, but there can be a warning in fine print about cross-contamination by other allergens.
A new trend to eliminate the need for a cross-contamination warning is adding the allergens to the food. This is convenient for the food maker, but reduces the variety available to consumers with food allergies.
In this video:
• Major food allergens. 00:41
• Allergens and prepared foods. 2:11
• Cross-contamination. 2:53
• Adding food allergens to reduce production costs and liability. 4:15
• Restaurant foods and allergens. 5:26
10 Dumb Diet Tips
- At July 22, 2019
- By Daniel
- In Diet
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Americans are bombarded by dieting tips. Some are helpful like eat more high fiber foods and less processed foods. Other tips can be confusing or even misleading.
For example, nuts are considered a healthy food and Americans are advised to add nuts to their diet on a daily basis. Since most countries are use the metric (SI) units of measure, people in those countries may be advised to eat 30 grams of nuts daily (about 1 ounce, 160 calories). Some diet experts advise Americans to eat a “handful” of nuts daily. Depending on your hand size and how many nuts you can hold you could eat up more than 300 calories of nuts daily. For a 2,000 calorie diet, 300 calories is 15% of total calories versus 8% for one ounce of nuts.
This video looks at ten common diet tips and why they are not as helpful as they can or should be.
