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Genetically Altered Apples That Don’t Turn Brown: Would You Bite?

Posted on 07/17/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthIn the hopes of selling more apples — including more pre-sliced fruit for snacking — one biotech company is trying to bring to market a genetically altered apple that doesn’t turn brown when it’s bruised or cut. According to the New York Times, the company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits of Canada, thinks its non-browning apple will do for the apple industry what baby carrots did for carrot growers — mainly, spur sales by making the product more convenient. (Except that carrot …

Our Snack Habit: One-Third Of Daily Calories Are From Junk Food

Posted on 03/15/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthAmericans are addicted to snacking. That’s the bottom line from a new government report looking at the snacking habits of more than 5,000 adults aged 20 and older. Researchers with the USDA’s Food Surveys Research Group interviewed the participants as part of an ongoing national survey called “What We Eat in America.” The results from those surveys are reported in two-year intervals. The survey found that a sizable chunk of our daily calories come from serial snacking during the day, …