Food for Kids

When I was a child food was freshly prepared. There was no such thing as fast food, or processed food. Except bacon. Bacon was the only processed food. But then it was dry-cured by rubbing it with salt, cured and smoked using hickory wood. No sodium nitrates. No added flavourings. Now it seems children are […]

The Food of gods

Chocolate is a bad, toxic, poisonous food?

Chocolate – poisonous, toxic; a good or bad food? Chocolate, cocoa powder, raw cocoa powder, drinking chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, whichever type you choose, all contain two nasty toxins. One is theobromine and the other is phytic acid. Even white chocolate which only contains the cocoa fat and milk will have some theobromine although […]