Xanthan gum may sound like a futuristic sweet but it’s actually one of the most commonly used ingredients in ultra-processed ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide — an estimated 1 in 24 Americans will be diagnosed with it at ...

Daily Maverick asked the NDOH whether they would consider that emulsifiers such as carboxylmethyl cellulose, xanthan gum, ...

Emulsifiers are regularly used to combine foods that ordinarily wouldn’t mix – for example oil and water. But in recent years questions have been raised about their impact on people’s diets ...

Consuming more ultraprocessed foods could mean a greater risk for type 2 diabetes, according to new research. Experts share ...

It belongs to a category called emulsifiers, which help to combine ingredients that would usually separate, such as the oil and vinegar in mayonnaise, for example. Early research has linked them ...

‘Emulsifiers really are everywhere these days – you’ll find them in more than half of all ultra-processed foods. Some ...

The absence of stringent regulatory measures over ultra-processed foods continues to expose millions of children to unhealthy ...

What there is, is palm fat, rapeseed oil, emulsifiers, flavouring, thickener – and colouring. Nul points. Very stodgy and ...

But new research points to the ‘emerging risk’ to health, says the European Food Safety Authority, posed by the omnipresence of emulsifiers in ultra-processed foods, which make up an ...

Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and founder of the Zoe health app, says that ...

He explained that dark chocolate, specifically varieties with more than 70% cacao content, is key. Cacao-rich chocolate ...