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Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Inhabitants of Chaco Canyon apparently drank chocolate from cylinders like these about a thousand years ago. That’s the finding in a paper published this week by PNAS, a publication of the ...
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Study shows flavanol antioxidant content of US chocolate and cocoa-containing products
Nov 25, 2009 |
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A recent study confirms that the antioxidants and other plant-based nutrients in chocolate and cocoa products are highly associated with the amount of non-fat cocoa-derived ingredients in the product. The study expands on ...
Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Mesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the ...
Saving Valentine’s Day
Feb 11, 2005 |
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University of Florida researchers are on a disease-fighting mission to ensure that the world’s favorite confection -- chocolate -- will continue to be a Valentine’s Day mainstay. The enemy is witches’ broom, an evil-sound ...
Sambirano chocolate bars are recalled
Jul 09, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the voluntary recall of Scharffen Berger Kumasi Sambirano chocolate bars because of mislabeling.
Tahitian vanilla originated in Maya forests
Aug 21, 2008 |
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The origin of the Tahitian vanilla orchid, whose cured fruit is the source of the rare and highly esteemed gourmet French Polynesian spice, has long eluded botanists. Known by the scientific name Vanilla ta ...
A foamy drink and the future of food
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May 21, 2008 |
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Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma revealed to millions of readers the centrality, and dangers, of commodity corn in the modern industrialized agriculture system as developed in the ...
Salmonella: Tough to crack when it’s in peanuts
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket ...
Most people believe smallpox not an extinct disease
Mar 31, 2008 |
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The vast majority of Scottish people interviewed in the streets of Edinburgh are unaware of one of the greatest achievements of medical science – the eradication of smallpox from the world over 40 years ago. A poll sponsored ...
Will dams on Amazon tributary wreak global havoc?
Apr 05, 2009 |
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The Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, runs wide and swift this time of year. Its turquoise waters are home to some 600 species of fish, including several not found anywhere else on the planet. A thick emerald ...
Green tea extract boosts exercise endurance 8-24 percent, utilizing fat as energy source
Jan 27, 2005 |
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Swimming endurance improvement comes from equivalent of four cups of tea a day over 10 weeks Now that even baseball players may need to seek new, more natural performance aids, will Japanese green tea sets become ...
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