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Archives for November 2004

High in protein, low in fat – it's chargrilled super guinea pig

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To most people they are lovable pets, but guinea pigs could soon be on the menu at British restaurants after the development of a “superpig” designed to offer diners a nutritious low-fat meal.

The new “Raza Peru” variety has been bred by scientists in Lima, who say that it contains more protein and less cholesterol than beef, pork, lamb or chicken.

The animal has already been sent for consumption in America, Spain and Japan, and exporters say they are ready to market it in Britain if there is sufficient demand.

Vegan, "cruelty-free" fashions .

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“Hopefully, we will change people’s minds about what a vegan looks like,” says Jeremy Crown, “owner of Otsu, a San Francisco store selling vegan accessories,” as reported by Ruth La Ferla in The New York Times. “A lot of people still assume we are granola hippies or that we are overtly political,” Jeremy adds. But Jeremy and others are tapping into a market for “cruelty-free” fashions that apparently is expanding beyond “the roughly six million Americans who call themselves vegetarians.” The attraction, at least in part, is that prices of animal-free goods “are often 60 percent to 75 percent lower.”

"The People's Republic of Starbucks

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Shanghai Surprise II. Back in the 1940s, it was known as the “Paris of the East,” but today some are calling Shanghai, “The People’s Republic of Starbucks,” reports Veronica Gould Stoddart in USA Today. Consider this: In “the room where Mao founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921,” is “now a yuppified entertainment complex of restored traditional houses called Xintiandi,” where “tourists, expats and moneyed Shanghainese, palming cellphones, pack its hot jazz clubs and cooler-than-cool eateries to dine on risotto of mud crab with black Chinese truffles.” Even more dramatic is the change in Shanghai’s skyline.

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Cholesterol-lowering beer

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Cholesterol-lowering beer ready for scale-up

A new Swedish start-up has developed a brewing process that produces a beer with cholesterol-lowering properties.

The patented process uses oats rather than barley and through special enzyme technology results in a product rich in beta-glucans, fibres shown in research to have a beneficial effect on cholesterol levels.

The company, Aventure, says it is the first in a range of healthy beers, with further ideas in the pipeline.

Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents

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The $90 billion beverage world is figuring out that parents will pay premiums for more nutritious drinks for their kids.

Every beverage maker seems to be leaping on board – from Pepsi to Snapple to Stonyfield Farm. But this isn’t about creating soft drinks with less sugar. It’s about drinks that could pass the parent test. It’s also about sales growth. And it’s about schools slamming the door on soft drinks. [Read more…] about Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents