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Is it simply fat and sugar-laden junk food or is there some nutritional goodness? Carolyn investigates if low-fat ice cream is a healthier option, if sugar is addictive and if it's making kids hyperactive. She also discovers a surprising mystery ingredient.
It's on our salads and in our frying pans but which oils are best for what and which are best for us? Could the BBQ cause cancer? And Carolyn uncovers a controversial hidden ingredient in many table spreads.
We're being inundated with pure, low-carb and additive free beer. So are traditional beers full of additives and preservatives? Carolyn investigates why so many women hate the taste and if some beer could actually lower a man's sperm count.
Whether frozen, dried, locally grown or imported, we can now buy berries all year round.
Pasta is paste of wheat, flour and water associated with Italy.Noodles are basically pasta from Asia and are usually made with wheat, but also rice.Rice is simply the seed of a plant.Nutritionally, these starchy staples are classified as cereals.
New Zealanders gobbled down enough yoghurt to fill 13 Olympic pools last year. Yoghurt is a multi billion dollar global industry.
Over 200 million tonnes of soybeans are grown worldwide every year. In New Zealand, our main sources of soybeans are Canada, India, China and Australia.Last year we imported over a million kilos of soybeans alone.We also import soy in the form of soy flour and soy meal, soy sauce, soy milk, and food ingredients such as textured vegetable protein.
Shellfish are one of New Zealand’s most abundant forms of seafood, with around three thousand six hundred native species. The creamy rich flavour you get from eating oysters and mussels is the taste of the reproductive tissue. Last year we imported nearly two million oysters and over 600 tonnes of other shellfish species. We spent even more on home grown shellfish and splashed out a massive 35 million on green shell mussels alone.
We eat over 63,000 tonnes of pork each year – that’s over 700,000 pigs. Based on iron content, which is what makes red meat red, pork can be considered a white meat. It has less iron than beef and lamb and about the same amount as chicken
Carolyn explores whether baked beans are better than spaghetti, learns more about a simple nutrient that can help prevent illnesses like heart disease and seeks the answer to an age old question - do beans really cause flatulence?
