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Ingredients to reduce trans fat

As consumer groups in Europe and the US call on food manufacturers to cut the quantity of trans fats in food products, Swedish vegetable oils supplier Karlshamns has come up with a cocoa butter replacer with a low trans fatty acid content.

The dynamics of Listeria

A variety of factors play a role in whether food-borne bacteria actually make people sick, and a better understanding of the infection process from food-borne bacteria could certainly lead to ways to stop such illnesses from occurring, confirm US...

Scientists confirm rice-maize similarity

The smallest rice chromosome has nearly twice as many predicted genes as the draft DNA sequence had indicated, claims a rice genome sequencing team in the US.