Nutrients News | Natural Health News & Self-Reliance

corn

09/05/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Researchers study ways to make more nutritious maize snacks

A study published in Food Science and Technology reported that adding Amaranthus cruentus (amaranth) to Zea mays (maize/corn) can help boost the nutritional content of the latter. The researchers involved in the study, who are from various schools and universities in Africa, set out to determine if adding A. cruentus leaf powder can indeed boost the nutritional profile of maize-based snacks presented […]

10/15/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Corn, the GM poster crop, will soon be nutritionally engineered to try to increase its value

If you were offered poison to eat, but were assured that scientists had added lots of beneficial vitamins and minerals to it, would you grab the opportunity to try some? Likely not, and yet that is what we as a society have been conditioned to do – just think of all those boxes of sugary […]

1 of 1