Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 25, 2025, 7:00 am.

There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but is it harmful only under certain circumstances? Lychee fruits have been widely use… Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Heme Iron and Cancer

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 20, 2025, 7:00 am.

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? In … Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Heme and Impossible Burgers

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 18, 2025, 7:00 am.

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressu… Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 14, 2025, 7:00 am.

The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck… Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 13, 2025, 7:00 am.

Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels. You may have heard … Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?

Story from NutritionFacts.org. Originally posted on March 11, 2025, 7:00 am.

There are so many ways we eat potatoes—baked, mashed, hashed, fried, scalloped, roasted, and more—but should we be eating them at all? P… Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.