Assorted Links
- The magic of mangoes. “In one double blind trial which included a low fat diet, the participants who took the mango supplements lost 5.3 per cent of their body weight while the control group lost only 1.3 per cent.” Which sounds impossible.
- Greek yogurt taste test
- Umami flavour as a means of regulating food intake and improving nutrition and health
- Babies fed breast milk have better intestinal microflora than babies fed formula. “Our findings suggest that human milk promotes the beneficial crosstalk between the immune system and microbe population in the gut, and maintains intestinal stability.”
Thanks to Melissa McEwen and Bryan Castañeda.
May 1st, 2012 at 5:41 am
i) Mango: I don’t know the African variety but can vouch for the Pakistani ones – delicious.
ii) Yog: I buy Total and when I want a bit of fruitiness stir in some of my wife’s wild bramble jam. Delicious too.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:09 am
Agree on yogurt. I don’t know if there are health benefits (no-fat versions seem to be most common), but plain slightly tart strained yogurt certainly does taste great when you mix in some jam or jelly.
May 1st, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Mangoes–university where mangoes are a major export (Benin) publishes a study showing that mangoes cause weight loss. Please don’t judge me, but I’m a little skeptical.
Seth: I am more than a little skeptical.
May 1st, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Close tag to make Umami item appear.
Seth: perceptive of you to figure out it was about Umami.
May 2nd, 2012 at 6:14 am
Full free text of the mango study is here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19254366
May 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 am
Wow, the lowering of the CRP is dramatic. 50% over the course of the study.
This older study also concluded that IG (and another product together) worked http://www.lipidworld.com/content/7/1/12