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Bacteria On Your Body: Not Just Inactive Hitchhikers

27 Nov 2017

We share our body with bacteria. They live in our mouth, on our skin and mostly in our digestive tract. There are up to a thousand different varieties, and their total number, some 100 trillion, is...

Sweetened Condensed Milk Was Popularized By Soldiers

22 Nov 2017

Gail Borden Jr first condensed milk in 1853 in an attempt to create a milk product that was shelf stable. He opened 2 factories to produce his product, but both ultimately failed, and it wasn鈥檛...

You Think What You Eat?

1 Nov 2017

When we think of the human mind we tend to picture the wrinkly pink organ which resides in our skull: it鈥檚 intricate cavities responsible for bringing about all the amazing things that we can think...

Firing a Gun at Seeds

26 Oct 2017

Scary pictures circulating online would have you believe that scientists use a syringe to inject DNA into food. Don鈥檛 be silly. They use a gun....

The Flour in Cookie Dough Can Make You Sick

29 Aug 2017

Most of us have been told off by a parent or grandparent for sampling raw cookie dough or cake batter. The adult would usually mutter something about raw eggs making you sick, while whisking away...

Kitchen Sponge Panic

4 Aug 2017

A team of German microbiologists has tackled the issue of bacteria on kitchen sponges by testing 14 sponges for their presence and identifying them by extracting and sequencing segments of their...

A Novel Ice Cream

23 May 2017

An ice cream parlor recently developed a new ice cream flavor: vanilla lemon 鈥淏aby Gaga鈥, made from real human breast milk. Though breast milk has been known for its nutritious content and benefits...

Salted Butter

23 May 2017

Before refrigeration butter would often spoil due to bacterial contamination. Salt was then added as a preservative. It works by dehydrating bacteria. Obviously since salted butter lasted longer,...

Paper Towels or Hand Air Dryers?

22 May 2017

Many people believe that hand air dryers are more hygienic than paper towels because fewer people touch air dryers compared with paper towel dispensers. 聽But studies show that in terms of hygiene,...

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