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Garlic Taste Without The Negatives? – Single Screenshot Series

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Alcohol Substitute? What are The UK’s Binge Drinkers Going To Do With This?

From Evernote: Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development – Telegraph

Clipped from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6874884/Alcohol-substitute-that-avoids-drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html

An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness and hangovers is being developed by scientists.

By Paul Rodgers and Richard Alleyne

Published: 8:00AM GMT 26 Dec 2009 Photo: PAUL GROVER

The synthetic alcohol, being [...]

The drinking straw invented 122 years ago!

Image from Wikipedia Article rom FoodBev.com RSS Feed 03 January 2010 11:00 Happy birthday drinking straw

On 3 January 1888, Marvin Chester Stone of Washington DC patented the drinking straw, which was made of hand-rolled paper covered in paraffin (lovely). His timing was excellent, as Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had just come along.

Before Stone’s patent, [...]

Champagne Health Benefits – Single Screenshot Series

Overdoing Food Quality? – Musings

So now we need to grow our vegetables under cover to stop “the critters” soiling them and effecting our health?

 

from: The Packer (click image for full story online)

 

Reminds me of the reaction when you suggest sun drying to someone as an appropriate technology. The immediate reaction is “but what about [...]

Single Screenshot Series – New Products

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These Three Are Mainly Myth

These three “myths?” are examined in the article below.

carrots help you see in the dark process fruit and vegetables reduce their nutritional value drinking 2 l of water a day is good for your health

from: Food Science Central (click image for full story online)

It turns out they [...]

First of Time’s Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2008

I have always laughed at cranky John Dvorak letting himself get annoyed by Top N lists where only a few of the N items actually correctly and accurately match the lists tittle.

 

from: TIME (click image for full story online)

 

That was until I saw this one – the failed Hadron collider [...]

Caffeine Enriched Beef Jerky/Billtong

 

from: FoodBev.com (click image for full story online)

 

“Each package of Perky Jerky contains roughly the same amount of caffeine found in two cans of a popular energy drink,”

While this is not the first snack to be enriched with caffeine it must be the leader in the product development tale.

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