Curcumin, aside from making curry taste good, can also be an effective biomaterial in healing skin wounds. The findings, which ...

There is growing demand in the western world for organic food. But do consumers always get what it says on the label? How can authenticity be verified?

Is organic food automatically healthier? Consumers are prepared to pay a significant premium for it. There…

What the humble cumin lacks in appearance it more than makes up for it in its princely health benefits. The ...

Charlotte Libby, Mintel’s global color cosmetics analyst, shared the macro-trends within the category that are helping to boost sales.

Semipermanent color from anthocyanins in fruit skins are a natural alternative to petroleum-derived dyes

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If you know that seashells are made of basically the same stuff as chalk, you might have wondered why chalk is crumbly but seashells are super tough--the secret’s in the biochemistry.

Growing up, a lot of people were led to believe the myth that only milk contains the right amount of ...

A study published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine has established that Cinnamomum cassia, or more commonly known as Chinese cinnamon, has been ...

Skin forms an important part of human innate immune system. Wrinkles, thinning and roughening of skin are some of the symptoms that affect the skin as it ages. Reactive oxygen species induced oxidative stress plays a major role in skin aging by modulating…

In news that is sure to strike fear in the heart of fruit salad lovers everywhere, an outbreak of salmonella has been traced to pre-cut melons sold at Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens, Whole …