Tag: Fruits & Vegetables

Food Science
Shannon

Lamenting the Fermenting…

It’s that time of year when the local produce starts dictating how you will spend the last weeks of your summer.  Bushels and baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables line the entrance of every grocery store bursting with flavour and freshness.  Can you possibly squeeze in a couple of nights of canning tomato sauce, making

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Blood Sugar Stabilization
Shannon

Can We Really Blame Fructose For Causing Metabolic Syndrome?

When it comes to survival, the body will do anything it can to beat the odds.  Breaking down ‘fructose’, a naturally occurring sugar, is one of those survival tactics that the body figured out millions of years ago – a time when animals and some humans needed to hibernate.  Unfortunately we are now stuck with

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Food Science
Shannon

What’s In Season? – Asparagus!

What’s in Season? In southern Ontario from the end of May through June, we start to see two of the three vegetables that are considered ‘perennials’; vegetables that come back for a second year and often more! Asparagus is one of those vegetables and it teaches us a valuable lesson about genetics. Does a more potent

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