Take home message The first half of the 20th century saw a great interest in the significance of vitamins for health. Rickets played a role in dark industrial cities like London, and young children developed bone deformities due to lack of vitamin …
Take home message Six months diet of milk or Coca-Cola? A Danish study (Maersk et al., 2012) looked, how two types of Coke (regular Coca-Cola and Diet Coke) had effects on weight development and physiological and body parameters around Metabolic …
Louis Pasteur Pasteurisation is related and derived from Louis Pasteur, a French scientist, (1822-1895). Pasteur started his career as a chemist, and it was not until 1854 that he shifted his work to micro-organisms. In 1854, he was commissioned by …
You sometimes don’t always realise how deep we have come from, when it comes to food supply. It is so normal to walk into a supermarket 7 days/week and pick out what you want to eat. Over a century ago, …
Kefir, including the raw-milk variety, is on the rise. There is a revaluation of fermentation, as a measure to ‘work up’ foods: white cabbage becomes sauerkraut, black tea with sugar Kombucha and milk becomes kefir. Meanwhile, raw milk kefir from …
