Folate is a B vitamin that helps cells grow and divide. Folic acid is the form of folate that’s added to foods and supplements. Women need the vitamin early in…
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Vomiting. Diarrhea. Cramps. Food poisoning is no fun. In most cases, your body will heal itself as long as you drink plenty of fluids until the GI problems clear up.…
BACILLUS CEREUS: Often grows in foods that aren’t kept at the proper temperature. Less commonly causes vomiting syndrome, which causes minimal diarrhea or abdominal pain and is associated with fried…
Have you purchased stone fruit—peaches, plums, nectarines, or pluots—recently? If so, check to make sure they are not part of a recent nation-wide recall of Listeria-contaminated fruit! On June…
The best and safest artificial sweeteners are erythritol, xylitol, stevia leaf extracts, neotame, and monk fruit extract—with some caveats: Erythritol: Large amounts (more than about 40 or 50 grams or…
The center aisles at a grocery store may offer countless nutritional nightmares, but they generally don’t pose food-safety risks. The irony is inescapable: some of the most highly processed, nutritionally…
The bug to worry about in deli meat, Listeria monocytogenes, may originally come from meat, but it can also live—and thrive—on plastic, on metal, and in water. And once it…
If you’re not allergic to nuts or peanuts, eating them while you’re pregnant may lower your baby’s risk of having those allergies. [HD] Researchers studied roughly 8,200 children born between…