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Cooking Tips: 7 Expert-Recommended Tips To Minimise Nutrient Loss While Preparing Food
Cooking tips: Pre-cut salads can be contaminated with food-poisoning causing bacteria and might have also lost some of the nutrients because of prolonged contact with air. Always have freshly-prepared salads.
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Typhoid Fever: Know Prevention Steps And Symptoms To Watch Out For
Typhoid is caused by Salmonella Typhi. Contaminated water and food are leading causes of typhoid fever. Read here to know the symptoms and prevention steps you need to follow.
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Watch: How To Remove Pesticide Residue From Vegetables And Fruits
Although most contaminants are washed away simply with cold water, there are some more ways to ensure that fruits and vegetables do not have pesticide residue.
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Here's How Bacteria Responsible For Food Poisoning Enter Your Salad Vegetables!
A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots
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Typhoid Diet: Here's What You Should Eat And Avoid If You Have Typhoid
The typhoid diet should make up for carbs and fat content in the body. Protein-based foods are an extremely important part of the typhoid diet.Here's what you should eat and avoid when suffering from typhoid.
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Beware of Food Poisoning This Monsoon: Tips to Cure Food Poisoning Naturally
Green leafy vegetables, sprouts, raw eggs, seafood and meat, and even raw juices may carry harmful agents that can lead to food poisoning.
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Government Tests Show 12.5 per cent Food Items Contain Unapproved Pesticides
The government has found residues of pesticides in a significant number of vegetables, fruits and other food items collected from outlets across the country.
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Your Veggies Bad For Us, Says Kerala to Tamil Nadu
Kerala doesn't want to eat its veggies. It's not being difficult- the state's food safety officials say 80 per cent of its vegetables, which come from Tamil Nadu, are highly contaminated, with levels crossing the permissible limit by almost three to five times.
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The 12 Most Pesticide-Contaminated Fruits and Vegetables Of 2015
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released their list of the most contaminated fruits and vegetables - and apples have been ranked as the most contaminated - fifth year in a row.
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Despite Orders, Farming of Contaminated Vegetables Continues in Bhopal
32-year-old Rajkumar Kushwaha and his family have been living on two acres of encroached land in Bhopal's Shahpura area for almost 40 years. Until a month ago, he used sewage water from a nearby drain to grow vegetables at his farm. But now, he claims after warnings from the district administration, he uses water from a 10-feet pit right next to th...
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Nitrate in water linked to colon cancer risk
A contaminant found in drinking water may raise the risk of colon cancer in certain vulnerable groups of people, a study suggests. The contaminant is nitrate, which can get into public water supplies from nitrogen-containing fertilizers used in agriculture, or from human or animal waste.
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Cooking Tips: 7 Expert-Recommended Tips To Minimise Nutrient Loss While Preparing Food
Cooking tips: Pre-cut salads can be contaminated with food-poisoning causing bacteria and might have also lost some of the nutrients because of prolonged contact with air. Always have freshly-prepared salads.
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Typhoid Fever: Know Prevention Steps And Symptoms To Watch Out For
Typhoid is caused by Salmonella Typhi. Contaminated water and food are leading causes of typhoid fever. Read here to know the symptoms and prevention steps you need to follow.
-
Watch: How To Remove Pesticide Residue From Vegetables And Fruits
Although most contaminants are washed away simply with cold water, there are some more ways to ensure that fruits and vegetables do not have pesticide residue.
-
Here's How Bacteria Responsible For Food Poisoning Enter Your Salad Vegetables!
A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots
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Typhoid Diet: Here's What You Should Eat And Avoid If You Have Typhoid
The typhoid diet should make up for carbs and fat content in the body. Protein-based foods are an extremely important part of the typhoid diet.Here's what you should eat and avoid when suffering from typhoid.
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Beware of Food Poisoning This Monsoon: Tips to Cure Food Poisoning Naturally
Green leafy vegetables, sprouts, raw eggs, seafood and meat, and even raw juices may carry harmful agents that can lead to food poisoning.
-
Government Tests Show 12.5 per cent Food Items Contain Unapproved Pesticides
The government has found residues of pesticides in a significant number of vegetables, fruits and other food items collected from outlets across the country.
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Your Veggies Bad For Us, Says Kerala to Tamil Nadu
Kerala doesn't want to eat its veggies. It's not being difficult- the state's food safety officials say 80 per cent of its vegetables, which come from Tamil Nadu, are highly contaminated, with levels crossing the permissible limit by almost three to five times.
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The 12 Most Pesticide-Contaminated Fruits and Vegetables Of 2015
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released their list of the most contaminated fruits and vegetables - and apples have been ranked as the most contaminated - fifth year in a row.
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Despite Orders, Farming of Contaminated Vegetables Continues in Bhopal
32-year-old Rajkumar Kushwaha and his family have been living on two acres of encroached land in Bhopal's Shahpura area for almost 40 years. Until a month ago, he used sewage water from a nearby drain to grow vegetables at his farm. But now, he claims after warnings from the district administration, he uses water from a 10-feet pit right next to th...
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Nitrate in water linked to colon cancer risk
A contaminant found in drinking water may raise the risk of colon cancer in certain vulnerable groups of people, a study suggests. The contaminant is nitrate, which can get into public water supplies from nitrogen-containing fertilizers used in agriculture, or from human or animal waste.
