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What’s the Biggest Source of Food Poisoning?

June 19, 2009

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified chicken as the biggest source of food poisoning in the United States. The second largest cause was identified as vegetables, fruits and nuts.

Poultry was the most commonly identified source of food poisoning in the United States in 2006, followed by leafy vegetables and fruits and nuts, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[nytimes.com]

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Origin of the Twinkie

June 16, 2009

Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries’ Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company’s thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally “Twinkies.”

Twinkie the Kid at Hy-Vee

[shelf life of a twinkie] [wikipedia]

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How Many Frogs Are Consumed a Year?

New research reveals that humans are estimated to consume over 1 billion frogs every year.  According to the study, the U.S. and France are among the biggest importers of frogs, and Indonesia is reported to export an estimated 5,000 tons of frogs each year.
The new research, to be published in a forthcoming edition of the [...]

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Coffee and Hallucinations

New research has found that people who drink more than seven cups of coffee a day will be more likely to hallucinate.
People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found.
A Durham University team questioned 200 students about [...]

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Food Color From Crushed Bugs

Did you know that many food today gets its artificial coloring from a dried, crushed up bug?  Food manufactures derive the dye from a beetle known as the Cochineal Bug.  It is often found in foods with red, orange, purple or pink coloring.
Center for Science in the Public Interest has spent the last decade attempting to get the ingredient banned, based [...]

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Just How Healthy is Organic Food?

Many people claim that organically grown food items are substantially healthier for you compared to those conventionally grown.  But did you know that there is no scientific evidence to back this claim up?
In fact, the Food Standards Agency, The British Government, The French Food Safety Agency, and The Swedish National Food Administration all agree that there is no evidence [...]

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Men React Quicker to Caffeine

A strong cup of coffee has a greater effect on men than women, research shows.
In a study on 668 healthy volunteers, an espresso pepped up men after just 10 minutes. Women also became more alert after the beverage, but less so.
[From BBC News]

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What’s the Difference Between a Potato and a Sweet Potato?

A sweet potato is a modified root and a potato is a modified stem and, therefore, a [true] tuber. One of the big differences is that the sweet potato is a perennial and they continue to grow indefinitely while a potato has a predetermined length of season after which the plant will senesce and [...]

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