The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series reports a new process for blowing up grains of rice to produce a super-nutritious form of puffed rice, with three times more protein and a rich endowment of other...
A new process for blowing up grains of rice produces a super-nutritious form of puffed rice, with three times more protein and a rich endowment of other nutrients that make it ideal for breakfast cereals, snack foods and nutrient bars for school lunch programs, scientists are reporting. Their...
Amid mounting pressure from consumer groups and food policy researchers, the makers of kids' cereals have finally started cleaning up their act--but not enough. According to a new report*by*Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, cereals made and marketed for children have...
Wheat aleurone is a novel wheat grain fraction with high levels of potentially healthpromoting compounds. New clinical trials with ready-to-eat cereals and bread containing wheat aleurone have been performed, and showed increased blood concentrations of tentatively beneficial compounds such as...
Elevated dental plaque acid is a risk factor that contributes to cavities in children. But eating bran flakes with raisins containing no added sugar does not promote more acid in dental plaque than bran flakes alone, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Some...
My baby is breastfed, and the doctor said not to give her anything else until she was a year old. This sounded rediculous to me. I had already started her on rice cereal and she liked it fine. But since he said that, I stopped. I know all doctors have their own opinions, but my question for YOU...
Cocoa Krispies...I LOVE them...they are so good...I have been eating them since I was 8 years old or so...every morning...well practically every morning...I have recently been trying to break the habit as my mother says it is extremely unhealthy and is the reason I am so..."Pathetic" at school...