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Kamut International has just completed Phase 1 of an antioxidant evaluation on KAMUT® Brand khorasan wheat. Big Sandy, MT (Vocus/PRWEB) January 20, 2011 Kamut International has just completed Phase 1 of an antioxidant evaluation on KAMUT® Brand khorasan wheat. The study, published in Frontiers of Bioscience, January 2011, was conducted by researchers at the Department of Food Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna in Italy to compare the...

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Celiac disease occurs in the digestive system when people cannot tolerate a protein called gluten, which is found primarily in wheat."This is the first time that a wheat flour-derived product is shown to not be toxic after being given to celiac...

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Post Foods, LLC, the makers of Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles, announced plans today to improve its most popular kids' cereals in its ongoing effort to address the rise in nutritional concerns among American consumers. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/pebbles/47803/ Beginning in January, Post Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereals will have a lower sugar content of 9 grams per...

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- EGT, LLC, a joint venture between Bunge North America, ITOCHU and STX Pan Ocean, announced it is building two high capacity shuttle train loaders in Montana. The facilities to be built in Chester and Kintyre Flats will ensure that EGT can efficiently ship wheat from a key growing region to the company's export grain terminal currently under construction in Longview, Washington. "Montana consistently supplies high quality wheat, particularly...

SALISBURY, Md., Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Handy International announces the world's first and only Certified Gluten-Free Crab Cake. The certification, issued by the independent auditing body Gluten-Free Certification Organization (http://www.gfco.org) comes on the heels of months of development effort centered on rethinking the crab cake. Handy was able to produce an alternative for gluten-free consumers that can pass a testing protocol far more stringent as the proposed USFDA...

Global field expeditions aim to help farmers adapt to climate change by securing valuable genetic traits of key food cropsThe Global Crop Diversity Trust today announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of wheat, rice, beans, potato, barley, lentils, chickpea, and other essential food crops, in order to help protect global food supplies against the imminent threat of climate change, and strengthen future food security.The...

Eating gluten free can be challenging especially around the holidays. Sweet Cake Bake Shop, an entirely gluten free bakery, makes enjoying the holidays gluten free not just easier but enjoyable with great tasting treats that everyone will enjoy. Kaysville, Utah (PRWEB) December 2, 2010 This year those on a gluten free diet can enjoy those things that make any holiday meal special as Sweet Cake Bake Shop has mastered the art of making gluten free taste good. Sweet Cake Bake Shop's...

DES MOINES, Iowa and ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont and the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) announced that they have extended their long-standing research collaboration and commitment to increasing productivity in leading production crops. DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred and ACPFG partnered in 2005 to discover and develop traits to increase drought tolerance and to decrease the need for soil-applied nitrogen fertilizer, as well as to grow...

Author Carol Fenster, leading authority on gluten-free lifestyle, was inducted into Les Dames d'Escoffier International. Denver, CO (Vocus) November 2, 2010 Carol Fenster, a leading culinary authority on the gluten-free lifestyle and author of 10 gluten-free cookbooks, has been inducted into the Colorado chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI), an organization of woman leaders in the food, beverage, and hospitality industry. Induction into LDEI is by invitation only. Named...

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- From among thousands of contestants, Mom Cooks Gluten Free (http://www.momcooksglutenfree.com/) has been honored as one of the top 200 winners in StartupNation.com's 2010 Leading Moms in Business competition (www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-in-business), sponsored by Infusionsoft (http://www.infusionsoft.com/). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101025/LA87427) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20101025/LA87427) Over 709,000 votes...