The attractive natural colours of fresh fruit provide a stark contrast to artificial colours still widely used in products like confectionary.

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Artichokes are not only delicious on the dinner table but their leaves can provide a valuable source of bioactive compounds.

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Balancing the health benefits of fish consumption with risks from ingestion of environmental contaminants is a challenge

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Research has found a possible link between certain artificial colours used in food and problems with hyperactivity in children.

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The use PCR is an important tool in authenticity testing employed also to distinguish different sources of gelatin.

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Suprising that ethylene oxide residues in sesame seed can survive high temperatures during baking and be present in simit.

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Sun-drying still provides a slow and traditional approach to food preservation maintaining valued colour and flavours.

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Hugely pleasing to buy loose foods from the open market avoiding the need for extensive plastic supermarket packaging.

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Pistachios are a high-risk commodity for aflatoxin exposure as screening of the kernels is difficult when consumed as preferred in-shell.

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Liquid-liquid extraction remains critical stage in food analysis whether for additives such as food colours or contaminants.

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Some traditional tools of the alchemist are still employed in modern analytical food testing laboratories.

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Economic fraud in the honey sector has for more than 50 years been a challenge for food chemists developing tests for authenticity and adulteration.

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Occurrence of pesticide residues in vegetables exceeding MRLs is generally very low but is still seen as a high risk by consumers.

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Immunoaffinity columns have revolutionised the analysis of mycotoxins in foods providing hugely efficient and effective clean-up.

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