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- 1Are Protein Products About Nutrition or Just Business?●Nutrition or Business? Investigating the New "Protein" Products
French media outlet Brut is investigating the wave of new "protein" products flooding supermarkets, asking whether they genuinely serve consumers' nutritional needs or are mainly a marketing and business opportunity. The report examines how manufacturers are adding protein claims to everyday foods to cash in on the health trend, and what the products actually deliver for shoppers.
- 2Wild tomatoes still hold the flavor we bred away●Wild tomatoes still hold the flavor we bred away: New map shows breeders where to look
A new genetic map of wild tomato species shows breeders exactly where to find flavor traits lost during decades of breeding for shelf life and yield. Researchers identified the genes behind the sugars and volatiles that give wild fruit its taste, opening the door to tastier commercial tomatoes. The work is being picked up across science media as a fix for the long-running complaint that supermarket tomatoes are bland.