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For the Love of Carbs

6 Jun 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

Resistant Starch Is Not Something to Resist Eating

4 Jun 2025

Sometimes it is hard to enlist volunteers for a study, but I don’t think that will be the case for the appropriately named SPUD Project launched by researchers at the University of Surrey in the U...

Sweet Potatoes and Some Sweet Chemistry 

11 Sep 2020

In November 2019, a study published in Scientific Reports showed a fascinating defense mechanism possessed by a certain variety of sweet potato named TN 57, which was known to be much more...

Can one rotten apple really spoil the whole barrel?

3 Dec 2019

Is there any truth to the expression, "one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel"? You bet. Because once an apple is rotten or has physical damage, (ie a bruise), it produces ethylene, which in turn...

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