Chocolate Rules
For a lot of people, there’s no better taste combo than chocolate and nuts. For food scientists, though, this combination is a major headache. This candy bar combines chocolate and peanuts. Nuts...
View ArticleThe Color of Health
Nature is full of color, from rainbows and roses to butterfly wings and peacock tails. Even the fruits and vegetables you eat often have distinctive colors: intensely blue blueberries, deeply red...
View ArticleHealing honey
Coughs, sniffles, sneezes, runny noses: Colds and other nasty lung infections are especially common in winter. To fight the misery, many people swallow syrups and pills that claim to clear stuffy...
View ArticleSalt secrets
The salt that you sprinkle onto food is easy to measure. Unfortunately, it may be just a fraction of the total salt in your daily diet. evemilla/iStockphoto When you look at your food, some...
View ArticleA pepper part that burns fat
By Stephen Ornes Diet fads come and go, but in the end, there’s really only one rule for losing weight: Burn more energy than you consume. In April, scientists from California reported on a chemical...
View ArticleSniffing out truffle scent
Genetics, not geography, plays key role in the aroma of the delicacy
View ArticleCool Jobs: People with a taste for chemistry
Chemists contribute to food flavorings, fuel extraction and everything in between
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