Archives for October 2, 2005

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Cocoa compounds may help diarrhoea

By  Dominique Patton

Dark chocolate made with flavonol-rich cocoa may help prevent diarrhoea, say scientists who have found cocoa compounds to limit the development of fluids that cause the condition.

Weekly Comment

Junk Food Babes

If education is meant to deliver knowledge and wise choices, why are we doing so little to educate our children about food?

Tate & Lyle fights to preserve status in sucralose market

By  Anthony Fletcher

Tate & Lyle's ice cream sweetening system has been named as one of the finalists at a forthcoming trade show competition, though the company may soon face a struggle to protect its valuable sucralose patent.

New Poland will still fight EU sugar reform

By  Chris Mercer

A new centre-right government in Poland is unlikely to curb the country's strong opposition to EU sugar reforms as Commission representatives look for common ground to break the 'no' camp.