Kitchen Venn Diagram with Eggs, Milk, and Flour
With some modifications, this might make a great “recipe” card (i.e. you include the amounts, as well as other things like crepes, etc)
By Stephen Wildish.
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Tag: food
May 14, 2012
Test it, not taste it! The origins of Sucralose.
“Sucralose was discovered in 1976 by scientists from Tate & Lyle, working with researchers Leslie Hough and Shashikant Phadnis at Queen Elizabeth College (now part of King’s College London).[3] While researching ways to use sucrose as a chemical intermediate in non-traditional areas, Phadnis was told to test a chlorinated sugar compound. Phadnis thought that Hough asked him to taste it, so he did.[3] He found the compound to be exceptionally sweet.” (From wiki)
Read a bit more about this neat story at Futility Closet.
April 16, 2012
Miniature teeny teeny tiny tiny food. #incredible
Wow – amazing, and good for slides on food scarcity/security…
By Shay Aaron, via Colossal.
Like this:
January 5, 2012
On the subject of MacDonald’s. Some obvious (and useless?) science.
REFERENCE:
Potential Effects of the Next 100 Billion Hamburgers Sold by McDonald’s. (2005) American Journal of Preventive Medicine 28(4) :379-381
ABSTRACT:
Background: McDonald’s has sold more than 100 billion beef-based hamburgers worldwide with a potentially considerable health impact. This paper explores whether there would be any advantages if the next 100 billion burgers were instead plant-based burgers.
Methods: Nutrient composition of the beef hamburger patty and the McVeggie burger patty were obtained from the McDonald’s website; sales data were obtained from the McDonald’s customer service.
Results: Consuming 100 billion McDonald’s beef burgers versus the same company’s McVeggie burgers would provide, approximately, on average, an additional 550 million pounds of saturated fat and 1.2 billion total pounds of fat, as well as 1 billion fewer pounds of fiber, 660 million fewer pounds of protein, and no difference in calories.
Conclusions: These data suggest that the McDonald’s new McVeggie burger represents a less harmful fast-food choice than the beef burger.
