President Obama! Other amazing things happened too. I’m not sure which is more amazing: the approval of Proposition #2 by an astonishing 63% of California votors, or today’s up-to-the-second Wikipedia entry on the election results.
Big Food companies have gotten together and agreed on a scoring system to identify “better-for-you” packaged foods. Thanks to my colleague in Copenhagen, Morton Strunge Meyer, for sending the link to the qualifying criteria.
The latest Food Matters column in the San Francisco Chronicle is about the melamine scandals. Melamine is still a big problem. It has just turned up as the cause of death of 1,500 raccoon "dogs" (animals raised for fur in China) and in pizzas in Japan.
I’m fascinated by the “Soup Wars” (see previous post). The New York Times has a full-page ad today from Progresso: “Campbell’s has 95 soups made with MSG. Progresso has 26 delicious soups with no MSG (and more to come).” Then it adds in small print, “Except that which occurs naturally in yeast extract and vegetable proteins.” I thought people considered high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to be the new trans fat (get rid of it!), but maybe it’s MSG?
Sunday’s New York Times has a beautifully illustrated account of how the U.S. food supply has changed since 1970, based on USDA food supply data.
Yesterday’s New York Times published a gorgeous recipe for chocolate chip cookies but I was stunned by the size. The recipe calls for pounds of ingredients but only makes 16 cookies (5 inches in diameter). I couldn’t resist looking up the calories on the USDA’s food composition data base.
I'm in Copenhagen this week at the Nordic Nutrition meetings and did my usual tourist thing. I went to supermarkets to check out the products and the health claims. What a disappointment.
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