Interesting Websites for Food and Nutrition

Nowadays I will come across some extremely interesting and useful websites bout Nutrition. Take a look at them if you want to know more about the topics. These topics can be quite current or serves as a piece of history triva.

http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/

Updated frequently about the latest news in food safety .

http://www.elderlynursing.com/mydiet.htm

It may be a website about an elderly nursing home but its resources section gives an extremely thoroughly review of how to read nutrition labels and the healthy diet pyramid tools.

http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia/

It's really all about notes but this one has such a wide scope of notes ranging from culture to uses of food ingredients. It even talks about the ancient kitchens, what is coffee initally used for and the fascinating ingfredients of many everyday ingredients. A must read for the history buff!

Till next time; I will be keeping my eyes to the web!

Rice noodles prompt latest China food scare

BEIJING (AFP) - – Large amounts of rice noodles made with rotten grain and potentially carcinogenic additives are being sold in south China, state press said Friday, in the country's latest food safety scare.

Up to 50 factories in south China's Dongguan city near Hong Kong are producing about 500,000 kilogrammes (1.1 million pounds) of tainted rice noodles a day using stale and mouldy grain, the Beijing Youth Daily said.

The cost-conscious producers were bleaching the rotting rice and using additives including sulphur dioxide and other substances that could cause cancer to stretch one pound (half a kilogramme) of grain into three pounds of noodles, it said.