Ultra-processed foods like ready meals and fizzy drinks are linked to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Learn about UK health risks ...

Emulsifiers are the newest battleground in the ultra-processed food debate, widely cited as ingredients of concern by the sort of joyless campaigners who want to tax baked beans. The health puritans ...

As ultraprocessed food consumption has dramatically risen, so has concern that they — and the additives they contain ― contribute to gut diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ...

THE WORD “EMULSIFIER” may sound strange or foreign to you, but I promise you that you’re already familiar with what they are. Because if you’ve looked at the ingredient label on ice cream, packaged ...

Emulsion is critical to cakes and icings. In cakes, they provide structural integrity and all the characteristics that make a cake desirable to consumers. In the icings and fillings for cakes, ...

In the kitchen, an ingredient’s taste is sometimes less important than its function. Cornstarch has rescued many a watery gravy; gelatin turns juice to Jell-O. Yet the substances that make bread ...