TheU.S. Food & Drug Administration(FDA) requires foods containing MSG to list it in the ingredient panel on the packaging as "monosodium glutamate." However, MSG can occur naturally in yeast extract. But while the FDA requires these products to be listed on the ingredient panel, the agency ...
If you put all the DNA molecules from every cell in your body together they would reach to the sun and back numerous times. (some calculate as many as 600 times to the sun and back!) ———– 5. There is MORE bacterial DNA in your body than your own DNA. Believe it or not, the...
Plus, sugar may hasten the skin's aging process too. A November 2015 paper from theBaylor College of Medicine's Department of Dermatologysuggests that a diet high in sugar can lead to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). In the skin, these molecules can damage collagen a...
Normally, glutathione is recycled in the body − except when the toxic load becomes too great. When glutathione becomes depleted it can no longer protect against free radicals, infections, or cancer, and we can’t get rid of toxins. This leads to further sickness and soon we are in the ...
beet or beet-containing foods called beeturia,” says Dani Lebovitz, MS, RDN, nutrition education expert based in Franklin, TN, and founder ofKid Food Explorers.(13) This is due to betalains which are antioxidants in beets and blackberries and are responsible for red and pink discoloration ...
Carbohydrate polymers are chains of carbohydrate molecules bound together in repeating units, hence the polymer denotation. Image Credit: Magcom/Shutterstock.com Carbohydrate Polymers: An Introduction Carbohydrate polymers possess the general chemical formula Cn(H2O)m, in that there are generally two hydr...
“Strawberries are thought to have neuroprotective effects. Long-term strawberry consumption has been linked to slower rates of cognitive decline with age,” says Lubeck, citing 2021 research inMolecules. They May Enhance Digestion With their high fiber content, strawberries may helpsupport healthy dige...
Although sucrose is found in many plants, only sugar cane, grown in tropical climates, and sugar beet, grown in colder regions, contain sufficient quantities to make extraction viable. Inverted Sugar Inverted sugar is similar to sucrose, but while the glucose and fructose molecules are bound toget...
These lactide molecules bond together to create polymers. 4. The result of the polymerization is small pieces of raw material polylactic acid plastic which can be converted into an array of PLA plastic products. What are the benefits of PLA products? PLA requires 65% less energy to produce tha...
Our commonest fuels are such things as coal, oil, gas, peat, and wood—all of them made from hydrocarbons (molecules built from hydrogen and carbon atoms) and all of them ultimately derived from living things (either dead plants or animals). Strictly speaking, the word biofuel can mean ...