New findings about nutrition and health, plus important discoveries in food safety and quality, are reported in the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's quarterly e-zine, ARS Food & Nutrition Research Briefs. It's now available online at:
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Findings included in the current issue:
* Getting enough vitamin D from the foods you eat--and from sunshine--could help your oral health.
* The most authoritative source of information about what Americans eat is now posted on the World Wide Web.
* Lutein-enriched eggs are a superb source of this eye-healthy carotenoid, a four- phase study indicates.
* Pterostilbene (pronounced TAIR-oh-STILL-bean) in grapes might help lower unhealthy levels of lipids in our bodies, if results from tests with rat liver cells hold true for humans.
* Salmonella levels in free-range chickens may not be significantly different from levels in conventionally produced birds. That means that you need to thoroughly cook either kind of poultry.
* Two luscious new peaches--Scarletprince and Julyprince--and a juicy new plum, Ruby Queen, are ideal for orchards and backyards of the southeastern United States.
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's chief scientific research agency.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
