Super Lettuce Turns Sour Sweet
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Scientists genetically engineer leafy greens to mass-produce miraculin, a chemical that makes pure lemon juice taste sweet when applied to the tongue. By Aaron Rowe.
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The maker of the popular kids' snack Veggie Booty struggles to regain its healthy image after its products were linked to a devastating salmonella outbreak.
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The UglyRipe tomato is like the frog prince. Once finally kissed by Washington regulators, it turned into a thing of beauty, and potential profit, for a Philadelphia produce distributor.
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Health officials on Wednesday zeroed in on lettuce as the likely suspect in the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell, though tracing the vegetable's source may prove difficult.
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Two more companies have recalled   their products, including pizza and salad, because they may   contain spinach linked to a food poisoning outbreak, the U.S.   Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ As the number of victims climbed, health officials and farmers on Tuesday blamed each other for the years of failure to figure out how to stop E. coli outbreaks linked to Salinas Valley lettuce and, more recently, spinach.
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One week, it's E. coli in fresh spinach. Then there's the recall for botulism in canned chili, beef stew, hash and gravy. And another for "gripe" water for colicky infants due to concerns about cryptosporidium. Just this week, there was an expanded recall for E. coli in frozen burgers and another...
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Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
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By LORNE JACKSON LET'S admit it, the UK has always had a reputation for flummoxed food. And it's all the fault of the West Midlands. At least, that's according to garden guru Jekka McVicar.
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A US Food and Drug Administration study shows a toxic chemical found in nature and used in rocket fuel has come up in tests on lettuce and milk samples.
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Health officials suspect lettuce and tomatoes in a nationwide outbreak of salmonella that so far has sickened 171 people in 19 states, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday.
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Food safety officials last night warned consumers eating potatoes and sweet potatoes to check their storage and condition after toxins in vegetables deemed unfit for human consumption were thought responsible for killing six cows
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MORROW, Ga. - The Piccadilly restaurant chain has recalled a brand of turnip greens sold at some of its 132 restaurants after a customer at a Georgia outlet bit into greens containing rat body parts...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offered new guidance to the food industry on Monday to try to keep fresh-cut vegetables safe but admitted it is still not clear how lettuce, tomatoes and other foods get contaminated in the first place.
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A division of Dole Food Co said on Monday it was recalling "Dole Hearts Delight" bagged salads in the United States and Canada because a sample at a grocery store in Canada was found to contain E. coli.
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Spinach found in the refrigerator of a person sickened by E. coli was contaminated with the bacteria, the "smoking gun" that investigators have sought for the origin of the deadly outbreak, health officials say.
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Maybe, say researchers at Rutgers University and other US east coast universities who have found people especially sensitive to bitter compounds in broccoli and other foods tend to be thinner than others.