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Cola one of the highest selling items in your supermarket
Cigarettes aside, one of the highest selling supermarket lines in Australia today is the 1.25 litre bottle of cola. Shockingly, the top five positions are almost all occupied by this brand’s products. So what exactly is in this soft drink?
Continue reading Cola one of the highest selling items in your supermarketAre banana chips a healthy children’s snack food?
Healthy snack foods are high on most parents’ list of ‘must-have-at-the-ready’ items. Fruit in its natural form is always preferable but when a child wants chips and only chips, I have found banana chips can satisfy kiddy cravings and provide a healthy option. So I was curious to find out how banana chips are made […]
Continue reading Are banana chips a healthy children’s snack food?Farmed salmon is artificial colour salmon
Chemical dyes like synthetic colourants canthaxanthin and astaxanthin have been used to colour farm-bred salmon. Fish farmers select from 16 shades of pink on a ‘Colour Fan’ provided by fish food manufacturers ‚Äì the same way we would choose a paint colour for the lounge room wall.
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