Food Politics

Astaxanthin is the dye used by growers of farmed salmon to give the fish a pink color.  They do this by matching the desired amount of the dye to this SalmoFan template. Astaxanthin, claim its m...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/02/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-asthaxanthin/

I love blueberries and grow two different kinds on my 12th-floor Manhattan terrace, both delicious if I can get to them before the voracious birds do. I wish the blueberry industry could just acc...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/06/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-blueberries-again/

I’m always happy to answer questions dealing with issues related to food politics.  Here are responses to two that came in last week.  I’ll do another two sometime this week.  Q1.  I was ...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/06/questions-about-food-politics-iphone-apps-and-phytonutrients/

What, you may well ask, is cupuaçu?  I confess never having heard of it but thank heavens for Wikipedia, which explains in somewhat limited detail that it is a chocolate-like tree with a sweet ...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/you-heard-it-here-the-hot-trend-is-cupuacu/

If the FDA is now going after health claims (see yesterday’s post), will it also start going after dietary supplements?  These, as I explained in my most recent column in the San Francisco Chr...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/05/will-the-fda-start-regulating-supplements/

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just rejected a proposal from Merck to allow it to use a health claim stating that omega-3 supplements promote  eye and brain health in infants.  M...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/04/europe-demands-scientific-support-for-health-claims-why-cant-we/

Antioxidant nutrients are so important as marketing tools that they constitute their own brand, say British experts on such questions.  Apparently, up to 60% of consumers who see an antioxidant ...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/03/antioxidants-as-a-marketing-tool/

I’m often asked about Açaí, the latest miracle fruit that is supposed to cure whatever ails you. If this is a miracle, it’s one that must be enjoyed by the company that makes MonaVie brand ...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/03/what-do-i-think-of-acai/

Investigators keep trying to find health benefits from taking supplements of vitamins A, E, and beta-carotene but keep coming up with the same conclusion: antioxidant supplements do no good and �...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/04/antioxidants-in-trouble-again/

Which fruit has the most antioxidants? The latest report says blueberries, followed by cranberries, apples, red grapes, and finally green grapes. What? Pomegranates don’t even make the top five...

https://www.foodpolitics.com/2007/11/the-silly-battle-of-the-antioxidants/