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NICE targets junk food industry

A few days ago, NICE published new guidance on the prevention of heart disease in the UK population.  The bit that I find interesting is that other campaigns, such as Change4Life, focus on the changes that we as individuals can make to improve our health.  But the latest guidance from NICE is firmly aimed at [...]

Food in the news April highlights

Welcome to April’s news round up where we bring you the best of this month’s food news.  Brace yourselves for some hefty stories:

Honey stocks stung by bee infection – Scottish bees are decimated by a bacterial infection.
A fishy dish that works wonders – stock up on nuts, oils, fruits and leafy green veg to reduce [...]

Welcome to Fairtrade Fortnight

What words come to mind when you read the words ‘Fairtrade’? Bananas? Tea? Chocolate? How about roses, olive oil or Lincolnshire? No?
Well actually, yes! I live in Louth in Lincolnshire and we’re one of 460 Fairtrade Towns  in the UK.
This year Louth will be supporting the annual ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ between February 22nd and 7th March [...]

Revealed - our top 10 healthy celebs

Calling all healthy celebrities!
In the highly critical world of Hollywood where the merest glimpse of double chin or muffin top will be given the ‘ring of shame’ in a trashy tabloid, it is unsurprising that finding a celebrity who isn’t underweight, let alone actually healthy, is no mean feat!
However, once you’ve weeded out the yo-yo [...]

Food in the news – July highlights

Whilst dire reports on swine flu hog the front pages (pun fully intended), your plucky Quorn blog labours harder than ever to bring you your monthly fix of the food news round up!
A fat lot of good - New research has shown that a high intake of healthy fat may lead to inflammatory bowel disease.
Frappuccino [...]

Product news - Tasty, Tasty, Easy on the Waisty

We’ve been inspired by the beautiful summer ahead and we have lots of new products to keep things interesting.Â
Our delicious new mini snacks range and delightful new treats including chilli sticky nuggets, cocktail sausages and goujons will be sure to hit the spot.

New Quorn mini snacks hit the spot

With Easter but a distant memory and wishing the sun had made an appearance, our only hope is that summer is looming, giving us a promise of lazy days in the garden relaxing, eating alfresco or days out with the children having a picnic in the park.  Either way I want to spend as little [...]

Is there such a thing as too much information?

So I see the Government is keen that fast food outlets provide a breakdown of what is in their food?  I really do think that this is a great idea. From a vegetarian point of view it has always been tricky enough eating in some food establishments but on top of this trying to diet [...]

Bringing the best of food news to your Quorn blog

Welcome to the Quorn™ blog food news round up.  This month, we bring you stories that have made a splash in your friendly national newspapers, including:

A fishy story
Has bottled water finally bottled it?
Hagar the Horrible got it right
Keep those home fires burning