The properties of a substance are determined by the structure of its component molecules. Vitamin C that is synthesized in the laboratory has exactly the same atoms joined together in exactly the...
Wasabi has antimicrobial properties which may have safeguarded Japanese sushi eaters over the years. Specifically, 鈥�6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothiocyanate鈥� has been identified in wasabi as an anti...
Hippocrates used a powder made from the skeletons of mice. Pliny the Elder used burnt eggshells, and the ancient Arabs resorted to twigs from the Arak shrub. What were they trying to do? Clean...
Somebody is after Procter and Gamble and it is hard to know why. Years ago there was the allegation that the company鈥檚 corporate logo hid a picture of the devil, then sodium lauryl sulfate, a...
The term 鈥淪uperfood鈥� has become part of our vocabulary. Such foods are the supposed antitheses of 鈥渏unk foods鈥� with the implication that if we gorge on them we can delay our earthly departure. The...
Just about every day seems to bring a new food scare.聽 Arsenic in rice.聽 E. coli in meat.聽 But worries about our food supply are nothing new.聽 Gentlemen who ventured into Sweeney Todd鈥檚 barbershop...
