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Lifestyle and environment - Additives

Food detective: Inulin

It’s popping up in all sorts of products. This added...

Emulsifiers: Friend or foe?

Emulsifiers have been getting a bad rap lately, but have...

Butter vs spread

Is butter better? Is it time to ditch the spreads?...

How to choose: Ready meals

Convenient they may be, but how do ready meals stack...

How much salt in your kids’ day

It’s easy for sodium to build up over a day....

Processed foods: Can they be healthy?

Mention ‘processed foods’ and you probably think of fat or...

Label detective: Sugar tax

What would it take to bring in a sugary drinks...

How to choose hot drinks

There aren’t many things better than wrapping your hands around...

How to spot sugar

Becoming a sugar spy – sniffing out hidden additions or...

USEFUL RESOURCES

A simple guide to food additives

Many of our favourite foods these days contain a long...

Additive labelling

Ciska de Rijk and Gwendoline Keel, food law specialists at...

Are the problems with your kids really about...

From grizzles and rashes to running wild and refusing to...

The dark side of the white stuff

It’s confusing when we’re being told not to eat too...

Sugar, sugar: Where’s it hiding?

There’s nothing wrong with a little sugar, says HFG senior...

The top unhealthy eating traps for travellers and...

When you’re in the habit, it’s not so hard to...

Would you like bugs for dinner?

Today I received a very interesting delivery, all the way...

Pressure is mounting: let’s be brave and introduce...

At the weekend a group of over 70 public health...

Let’s do something about obesity, type 2 diabetes...

We’ve been hearing for a while now the alarming reports...