Food Choices

Are you getting your 2-3 servings of fruit a day? Fruit doesn’t have to be a trendy “super” food to contribute a variety of nutrients to your diet. Fruit is versatile and provides a variety of flavours and textures to fulfill your needs.

Ultra-trace elements, such as arsenic which is known to be toxic, may be dietary essentials. However, research into their essentiality is limited and human requirement may only be estimated or suspected for some elements. Learn more.

Food packing can preserve and protect food through processing, transportation, purchasing, and storage until the product is consumed. Plastics have become a cheap and convenient packaging material, but are you getting more than you bargained for?

The incidence of food allergies appears to be increasing among both adults and children, but is this really the case or are symptoms which arise after eating particular foods caused by something else? Learn more about food and your body.

Chicken and turkey have become firm favourites as alternatives to red meat, but are only two of several domesticated fowl which are available for consumption. Widen your culinary horizons by learning more about poultry.