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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Janelle Weaver |
Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking. |
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
Food Processing December 2012 Anthony & Fusaro |
Understanding Monk Fruit: The Next Generation Natural Sweetener With stevia laying the groundwork, luo han guo seems poised to be the next natural non-nutritive sweetener. |
AskMen.com September 25, 2003 Mike Davison |
The Truth About Sugar & Artificial Sweeteners If you respect the accepted daily intakes set out by the FDA, and consume them only in moderation, there are healthy ways to reduce calories and add sweetness without altering blood sugar levels. |
Food Processing April 2010 |
Ingredient Round Up: Sweeteners We focus on new varieties of sweeteners. |
Food Processing March 2010 John S. White |
Clarifying Added Sugar Myths Calories from high fructose corn syrup and added sugars are just one-tenth of the total calorie increase since 1975, so clearly are not the primary cause of obesity. |
Prepared Foods June 1, 2005 |
Fruity Fiber with FOS Frutalose L85, a 100% GRAS, natural chicory root extract with both prebiotic and low-calorie sweetening capabilities, is five times sweeter than conventional native inulin powder. And, as a liquid, it is easier to handle and incorporate into formulations. |
Food Processing May 2013 David Phillips |
Despite Innovations, Food Manufacturers Still Rely on Past-Generation Sweeteners Acesulfame potassium, aspartame, sucralose still rule the sweetener roost. |
AskMen.com October 9, 2003 Mike Davison |
Q&A On Sugar & Sweeteners Does sugar cause weight gain?... Does sugar cause diabetes?... Does sugar make you overeat?... Does sugar have any nutritional value?... Is sugar addictive?... Do we crave sweets?... Do artificial sweeteners cause cancer?... etc. |
Prepared Foods October 1, 2006 |
Sweet Combinations When mixed, two or more ingredients often create, for better or worse, an effect that is greater than the sum of their individual components. |
Food Processing April 2006 |
From the Bench: Sweeteners This selection of sweeteners provides processors a flavorful palette for consumers' palates. |
Prepared Foods April 9, 2007 Elizabeth Mannie |
Sweetening Functional Foods - April 2007 The best type of sweetener for functional foods on labeling and nutrient requirements, product characteristics and functionality requirements. |
Food Processing April 2009 |
Ingredient Round Up: Sweeteners This month's ingredient round-up focuses on sweeteners. |
Science News August 4, 2007 Janet Raloff |
A Melon for Dieters and Diabetics Novel watermelons offer lots of taste but little sugar. |
Prepared Foods July 1, 2006 |
Sweetening the Pot Experiments indicate that sweetness and flavor information available about intense sweeteners is very useful, but food scientists and formulators need to keep in mind that this data can serve only as a guide. |
Prepared Foods October 2007 Paula Frank |
Article: Advancing Sweeteners: The Mystery of Sweet Taste Food scientists continue their search for the "Holy Grail" of ingredients that both function and taste exactly like sugar. |
AskMen.com Shannon Clark |
Health Benefits Of Sugar Sugar's days as a "bad guy" may be coming to an end, at least for now. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
Health Effects Of Sweeteners Nowadays with rumors swirling about the potential dangers of popular sugar substitutes, choosing a product can be troubling -- but not for long. |
Food Processing July 2006 Frances Katz |
More than one sugar Removing calories, and even the sweetness, from sugar creates new product formulation possibilities. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Fruity alternative to toxic insecticides A compound found in fruit could be the safe insect repellent of the future, according to a group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside in the US. |
Food Processing April 2005 |
From the Bench: Sweeteners A new crop of sweeteners offers a wealth of functionality and flexibility in formulation. |
Prepared Foods October 1, 2006 |
Changing Standards Changes to the Frozen Desserts Standard of Identity will impact the formulation of a number of products. This article addresses what this may mean for ice cream formulations. |
Prepared Foods February 2009 |
Hitting the Shelves: Sweetness, Naturally PureVia is an all-natural, zero-calorie sweetener that derives its sweet taste from stevia leaf extract. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jennifer Michalowski |
Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours. |
Food Processing April 2007 |
Ingredient Round-Up: Sweeteners Maltitol scores 90%... Polydextrose, lactitol... Just for yogurt... Sweeten with raisins... Powdered natural sweeteners... Specialty sweetener blends... Better energy... etc. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 John Brokars |
Fly Fishing on the Brain Applying modern transgenic and video technology to that fabled animal model, the fruit fly, EnVivo Pharmaceuticals is creating a buzz in its program against neurodegenerative diseases. |
Food Processing July 2013 Mark Anthony |
Six Low-Key Sugar Substitutes Revisiting six sugar replacements that don't have the PR agents that stevia and monk fruit have. |
AskMen.com Adrienne Turner |
Do You Have A Sugar Addiction? For those with an inclination for sweets, a sugar addiction can be as strong, and as serious, as a drug or alcohol dependency. Here are some ways to kick the habit. |
National Gardening Shila Patel |
Peaches, Plums, Nectarines: When to Harvest Tree fruits are beginning to ripen this month, so we asked an expert on the subject how to harvest fruit at its absolute peak. |
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Elinor Hughes |
Long life rice Zhen-Yu Chen and colleagues from The Chinese University of Hong Kong fed antioxidants in black rice extract to fruit flies and observed that the flies lived longer than they normally would. Their mean lifespan increased from 44 days to 50 days. |
Prepared Foods May 2009 |
Hitting the Shelves: Sweeten with a Spray McNeil Nutritionals steals the spotlight for making its well-known Splenda No Calorie Sweetener available in a novel liquid spray format. |
Food Processing June 2012 Diane Toops |
Food Biz Kids: Nabisco Newtons Fruit Thins Considered A Healthy Alternative to Cookies Junior high school age food reviewers thought Nabisco Newtons Fruit Thins were 'both tart and sweet.' |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Mitch Leslie |
Creating Internal Maps Combining complementary skills, a team of neuroscientists studies how flies navigate their surroundings. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Tekla S. Perry |
Dream Jobs 2011: Insect Imagineer Gus Lott designs virtual reality systems for bugs and rats so that we can study their brains -- and ours |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Splenda's Ads: Sugar-Coated? The maker of the leading sugar substitute is under attack by competitors for deceptive advertising. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek April 28, 2011 Duane Stanford |
Ailing Merisant Looks for La Dolce Vita The aspartame maker puts the Equal brand on other types of sweeteners. |
Food Processing August 2006 Lauren Swann |
Low and Sweet Conventional soft drink sales may be down, but things are bubbling for low-calorie, naturally sweetened drinks. |
Food Processing February 2010 Diane Toops |
Have Food Processors Found the Holy Grail of Sweeteners? Will alternative sweetener stevia live up to its promise to consumers? |
Prepared Foods April 1, 2005 Lauren Swann |
Ingredient Challenges: Formulation Challenge: Shaping Sweet Success for Reduced-sugar Foods Sugared-down products have risen in just about every category where sugar can possibly be altered, and food formulators have many new options for "sugaring down" their products. But when using these ingredients, careful attention to nutrition labeling is critical. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2007 |
Why does a fly fly? Chinese scientists have deciphered the complicated value-based decision-making process of the fruit fly. |
Food Processing August 2007 Ashman & Beckley |
Product Spotlight: Carbonating Fruit Fizzy Fruit Co. adds carbonation to grapes for a unique - and polarizing - experience. |
Finefishing Fly Fishing Gary Borger |
Designing Trout Flies Fly tying, like art, is an expression of individual preference for materials and techniques.... |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Jennifer Michalowski |
JAABA: Automating the Human Observer Software can be trained to recognize behaviors in several animals, including adult fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and mice -- even by a user with no background in computer science. |
Chemistry World August 12, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Knock-out theory puts new spin on general anesthesia Consciousness may be extinguished through mysterious quantum biological effects that cause subtle changes in the electronic state of proteins, say researchers. |
AskMen.com May 30, 2014 Paddy Spence |
My Journey To Eliminate Sugar - And Why Doing This Will Change Your Life While the process was challenging, the benefits of quitting sugar were significant and immediate. Once my body adjusted, I found my energy levels were much more consistent throughout the day. |
Prepared Foods May 1, 2005 Julia M. Gallo-Torres |
"Neotame-ing" the Beast A line of neotame-based blends, produced by Sweetener Solutions LLC, a strategic partner of The NutraSweet Co., provides formulators with ingredients that can be used as both a general sweetener and flavor enhancer. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Patrick Di Justo |
What's Inside Orbit White Gum? Boiled Pine Sap! Explanation of the ingredients of this popular gum. |
Food Processing March 2012 Anthony & Fusaro |
Stevia Seeps Into Beverages So do honey and monk fruit/luo han guo extracts, as drink makers try to reduce calories while also keeping labels clean and simple. |