Tagged: Processed food

The case for lowering salt levels in processed foods is now even stronger – new research - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 26, 2018 •

• Diet,
• Health,
• Processed food,
• sodium

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Cristina Cleghorn, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Prof Tony Blakely The scientific case for lowering dietary salt intakes became a bit confused in recent years by studies which suggested that both low sodium (salt) intake and high sodium intake were associated with higher risk of death. But new research suggests that low sodium intakes are not associated with … Read More

Highly processed foods may be linked to cancer - News

Jean Balchin • Feb 16, 2018 •

• Breast cancer,
• cancer,
• canned vegetables,
• cause,
• effect,
• Healthy Food,
• limitations,
• marketing,
• misclassifications,
• observational study,
• preserved goods,
• Processed food,
• reformulation,
• taxation

There may exist an association between intake of highly processed food in the diet and cancer. Published yesterday by The BMJ, the study suggests that while further exploration is needed, the rapidly increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods “may drive an increasing burden of cancer in the next decades.”  What are Ultra-processed foods? Ultra-processed foods include packaged baked goods and snacks, … Read More

Is the future for our sheep their milk? - Stick

Peter Kerr • Jul 16, 2014 •

• Blue River Dairy,
• China,
• contract writer,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• Keith Neylon,
• Market validation,
• Processed food,
• Sciblogs,
• value added food,
• value-added food. processed food,
• writer for hire

  Being the farm raised boy I am, I’m keen on the idea of clever new and profitable products from our ability to convert sunlight, soil and water into them. So, Blue River Dairy, the sheep milk products company which … Continue reading → … Read More

Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 20, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• development,
• digerati,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Market validation,
• Mobile Tech Summit,
• Processed food,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Sustainability,
• Wellington,
• writer for hire

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading → … Read More

Magritek looking to be less lonely - Stick

Peter Kerr • Jul 23, 2013 •

• andrew coy,
• contract writer,
• development,
• education,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Magritek,
• Processed food,
• Rangatira,
• Sciblogs,
• Spinsolve,
• value added food,
• writer for hire

I had the pleasure of catching up with Magritek last week when it announced a new cornerstone shareholder in Wellington-based private equity investor Rangatira. It is an opportunity for Magritek to up its sales and marketing effort around its relatively … Continue reading → … Read More

Food & beverage stars for NZ to hitch its wagon to – report - Stick

Peter Kerr • Dec 13, 2012 •

• coriolis,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Market validation,
• Processed food,
• Sciblogs,
• star foods,
• Sustainability,
• Tim Morris,
• value added food,
• value-added food. processed food

There’s not that many reports you can sit down and study and go – uumm, interesting. But Auckland-based Coriolis has done it (again), and their ‘Investors guide to emerging growth opportunities in NZ food and beverage exports’ is, and I … Continue reading → … Read More

If we knew what we were inventing when we figured it out…..we would’ve named it - Stick

Peter Kerr • Dec 11, 2012 •

• agricultural science,
• education,
• innovation,
• mcmeeken,
• Processed food,
• responsible pastoralism,
• Sciblogs,
• Sustainability,
• value added food

The concept of rotational grazing has been around for so long now (but only about 60 years really) that we take it for granted. It is ‘just’ the way we do things at the on farm level, and there’s no … Continue reading → … Read More

What does our agriculture offer?……..romance and reassurance - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 13, 2012 •

• education,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• m,
• owning our story,
• Processed food,
• responsible pastoralism,
• Sciblogs,
• Sustainability

I’ll be the first to admit that the frilly, intangible, non-scientific aspects of what and how we produce our agricultural products can be a tricky little number to get your head around. Much of what we’re good at doing as … Continue reading → … Read More

Our agriculture’s much more than the sum of its parts - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 06, 2012 •

• high tech,
• imagery,
• innovation,
• Leonardo da Vinci,
• Mona Lisa,
• picture,
• Processed food,
• responsible pastoralism,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• Sustainability,
• value added food

This post also appears at www.pastureharmonies.org Too much, arguably all the time, we look at all the individual components of our farm production systems……and beat ourselves up about them. We could use less fertiliser, our use of water isn’t that … Continue reading → … Read More

If we imagine beyond the actuality of how we produce…. - Stick

Peter Kerr • Oct 16, 2012 •

• bucolic,
• development,
• Early stage science,
• Market validation,
• picture perfect,
• Processed food,
• Sciblogs,
• Sustainability,
• value added food

This post also appears at www.pastureharmonies.org Science has served New Zealand agriculture extremely well. It should and needs to do so in the future. It is also that pragmatic rationale approach that has delivered and developed a wonderfully integrated on-farm … Continue reading → … Read More