Celebrating Cocoa And Chocolate’s Potential Health Benefits

If eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka could leap from the pages of Roald Dahl’s classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and walk these streets, he might make a bee-line for a festival of cocoa and chocolate on the menu at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS)…

Study Focuses On The Health Impact, Interplay Of Diet Soft Drinks And Overall Diet

Are diet sodas good or bad for you?

Improving Heart Health With Hot Pepper Compound

The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a medical standpoint as scientists report the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the No. 1 cause of death in the developed world…

Eradicating Salmonella With Popcorn-Shaped Gold Particles

Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year. Another traditional test takes 72 hours to complete…