NUTRITION BITES

OH NO KETO

A Tulane University (New Orleans) study which compared popular diets on both nutritional quality and environmental impact found that the keto and paleo diets scored among the lowest on overall nutrition quality and highest on carbon emissions. A vegan diet was found to be the least negatively impactful on climate, followed by vegetarian and pescatarian diets. The pescatarian diet scored highest on nutritional quality, while the most common omnivore diet sat in the middle for both quality and sustainability.

EASIER TO SWALLOW

Eliminating animal milk alone from the diet of adults with eosinophilic oesophagitis, or EoE, is as effective at treating the disease as eliminating animal milk plus five other common foods, a clinical trial funded by the US National Institutes of Health has found. EoE is a chronic disease caused by too many white blood cells in the oesophagus. Allergic inflammation due to food drives the disease by damaging the oesophagus and preventing it from working properly. The investigators concluded that a one-food elimination diet is a reasonable first option for diet therapy in adults with EoE.

A DELICATE MATTER

Milk packaged in paperboard is more susceptible to its flavour being tainted than many other beverages. This is because of milk’s mild, delicate taste, according to a recent study by North Carolina State University. Milk’s taste can be affected by the exchange of the packaging’s compounds into the t milk and by the packaging absorbing flavours and a aromas from food in the fridge around it. The study showed skim milk is more vulnerable to flavour impacts than whole milk, and that of the different packaging types, paperboard cartons preserved milk freshness the least. – Listener staff