Food Choices

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.

Despite media claims to the contrary, soy and many soy products can be included in a health promoting diet. Learn more about how soy consumption can contribute to your health.

Ginger is a flavourful spice with many culinary uses as well as purported medicinal health benefits. Studies appear to provide support to various health benefit claims, but are these claims substantiated?