Vic Cherikoff
Vic Cherikoff
Wild Foods and Gout
Wild Foods and Gout Wild foods and gout is a topic about which I am often asked. This probably reflects the growing incidence of gout which was once only a condition suffered by fat, old men who ate rich foods including red meats, shellfish, bread and drank copious quantities of red wine and beer. Just as with Read More …
The Greenhouse Effect is Degrading our Food
The Greenhouse Effect is Degrading our FoodMaybe we do not need to worry too much about our rising population and that we are now using 1.6 planet’s worth of resources every year. Our own folly will sort things out as agricultural crops fail, massive storms wipe out wide areas of housing, industry and farmland (and Read More …
The Best Diet
The Best DietDietary Choices and Choices of DietsWhat is the best diet? We all know that the next new diet is probably in preparation as you read this and it will add to the plethora of diets we see promoted. These include celebrity diets (who would listen to an actor for long term nutritional advice); or Read More …
A Comment on Changing What We Taste in Food
A Comment on Changing What We Taste in FoodThis post of mine is a reply to a story about changing the tastes we perceive as we eat and the work being done to see if changing what we taste can lead to healthier food choices. I posted this in the journal’s comment section but I tend to get Read More …
An update on Herbal-Active® – a natural preservative
An update on Herbal-Active® – a natural preservativeThis email is an update on Herbal-Active®, a new natural preservative beginning to replace benzoates and sorbates in a wide range of foodstuffs and cosmetics. Natural preservatives pose a host of challenges in developing their application potential. As with chemical preservatives, the presence or absence of organic matter, liquid Read More …
Wild Foods – We Need More of Them
Wild Foods, we need more of themLots of layers in this topic. There is no doubt that we should be eating more wild foods as they supply an enormous range of phytonutrients that are being bred out of our conventional produce. Read more about this at the Wild Foods website. But I’d like to cover a few Read More …
Freeze-Dried (Lyophilized) Wild Fruits
New Products – Freeze-dried Wild FruitsWe produce a range of freeze-dried (lyophilized) wild fruits for chocolate coating, snack foods, breakfast cereals etc. The range includes riberries, rainforest limes, Illawarra plums, finger limes, Davidson plums, wild rosellas and of course, our star product; the LIFE (Lyophilized Indigenous Food Essentials)™. Naturally, they are all pre-dipped in Fresher4Longer natural food rinse™ (industrially Read More …
How to Start the Year Without a Santa Belly
How to Start a New Year Without a Santa BellyWeight loss is a multi-million dollar business. It is a growing industry (if you’ll excuse the pun). As our food quality falls and we breed more produce that’s sweeter (from sucrose and fructose) or starchier, juicier, lower in fibre, more nutritionally dilute we get more obese and Read More …
Does Fructose Make Me Look Fat In This?
Does Fructose Make Me Look Fat In This?Interesting to see the mainstream press slowly cottoning on to the fact that fructose is a bad sugar in the same way as trans-fats and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are bad fats. From my own research into sucrose and the deleterious effects of the fructose within it, I Read More …
Wild Foods – my newest book is out!
Wild Foods – my newest book is out!Woo-whoo! My new book is out and available in our on-line store. The sub-title to Wild Foods – Looking back 60,000 years for clues to our future survival tells you a little of the range of topics covered by my writings and that of contributors Ian Chivers and Izabela Konczak. The overall theme is disruptive Read More …
