Weekly Digest
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Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.
Food News
- Am I the last person to notice this? The Corn Refiners Association is running high production value TV ads for their Sweet Surprise campaign, a site designed to give us the(ir) facts about high fructose corn syrup. Scary! (Here’s a quick-n-simple introduction to an alternative POV.)
- Consumers Cut Food Spending Sharply (via Wall Street Journal)
- Today’s Produce May Be Nutritionally Deficient (via YumSugar)
Things We Crave
- A new European toy/food product called Yummy Dough that reminds us a lot of a certain ChowMama post!
- A series of cookbooks for children by Handstand Kids that are the perfect recipe for kids to learn how to cook, while discovering the people, places, and language of a new country.
- A new Yeah Yeah Yeah’s album, complete with food cover art (via Eat Me Daily)
- Not sure this really belongs under things we crave, but I HAD to include this Obama sushi from Japan (via Slashfood)
Resources
- LabelWatch.com provides a quick way to compare ingredients in over 25,000 name brand food products & create personal shopping lists.
- 5 Ways to Make Family Meals Happen (via LilSugar)
- 50 of the World’s Best Food Blogs (with many of our favorites listed–yay & congrats!) (via Times Online)
Green Your Eats
- Meet The Food You Eat: Measuring Carbon Footprints With a Kitchen Scale (via TreeHugger)
- The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (via-of all places!-Perez Hilton)
- Buy in bulk, save money (via Big Green Purse blog)
Tips, Tools & Techniques
- Use your vegetable steamer or crock pot as a humidifier! (via Parent Hacks)
- Application for your iPhone that will convert any weight or volume measure of butter to another (via TableOne Events)
2 Responses to “Weekly Digest”
February 20th, 2009 saat: 12:05 pm
UGHHH!!!! Yes, that Corn Syrup commercial has been irritating me for months. the funniest thing is that the people in the commercial say “it’s fine in moderation”.
Uhhhh….Hellooooo people!!!! Corn Syrup is in practically EVERYTHING that Americans eat. It’s in stuff that people don’t even realize it’s in from baby formula to vitamins.
Think about how many people eat in one day:
Breakfast:If you eat a piece of toast with jam on it, it might include corn syrup. Plus your vitamin could include corn syrup.
Lunch: A coke and a hamburger with ketchup on it both the coke and the ketchup have corn syrup and probably the “Whole Wheat” bun has corn syrup in it too.
By the time you get to dinner and dessert you have already had corn syrup at every meal. That CANNOT be considered “moderate” consumption!
Read your labels!!! you can moderate something you don’t know exists!
And to top that all of now they are saying that there is mercury in Corn Syrup!!!
Check it out: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-mercury-corn-syrupjan27,0,2801323.story
Sorry but this all makes me mad! Good work Chow Baby, keep posting the news!
xoxo
C
February 20th, 2009 saat: 3:17 pm
go christina! i just read those findings about mercury in corn syrup this week too. and these are data from a 2005 study? 2005!! thanks for finally letting us in on the secret.
mercury was found in 45% of foods tested. and the corn syrup folks are saying that today’s newer technology for creating corn syrup doesn’t result in mercury in the foods. even though some people are using the old technology still.
don’t know about you, but it makes me nervous to see the words food and technology in the same sentence. i’d rather not take chances.
michelle
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