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Las Vegas Food Tours Will Make Your Trip Unforgettable

I am a big fan of locally guided food tours, and try to take them wherever I go. There's no better way to explore the cuisine of a place than with a knowledgeable local guide, and instead of being forced to choose one spot for a meal, you usually get a broad sampling while learning the story behind them.
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  • Study: Predicted environmental changes could significantly reduce global production of vegetables

    Study: Predicted environmental changes could significantly reduce global production of vegetables The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), is the first systematically to examine the extent to which projected changes such as increases in temperature and reduced water availability could affect the production and nutritional quality of common crops such as tomatoes, leafy vegetables and pulses.

  • Study: Mangos help promote gut health

    Study: Mangos help promote gut health Next time you suffer from constipation, you may want to consider grabbing a mango instead of reaching for a fiber supplement, suggests a new Texas A & M University pilot study published in the peer-reviewed journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.

  • Want to optimize your caffeine level? Army researchers made an app for that

    Want to optimize your caffeine level? Army researchers made an app for that It's 9 a. m. and you're facing a dilemma: should I have a second cup of coffee? Caffeine spurs the central nervous system, making a person feel more awake, alert, and prepared to withstand the barrage of work meetings.

  • Radish cover crop traps nitrogen; mystery follows

    Radish cover crop traps nitrogen; mystery follows When you think of a radish, you may think of the small, round, crunchy, red-and-white vegetable that is sliced into salads.

  • Study: Farming crops with rocks to reduce CO2 and improve global food security

    Study: Farming crops with rocks to reduce CO2 and improve global food security Farming crops with crushed rocks could help to improve global food security and reduce the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere, a new study has found.

  • Food fraud in China leads to opportunities for EU products

    Food fraud in China leads to opportunities for EU products The perceived safety and quality of food imported from Europe into China provides commercial opportunities for European food producers, research has found.

  • Rice becomes less nutritious as CO2 levels rise

    Rice becomes less nutritious as CO2 levels rise Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reduce the nutritional value of rice, according to an international research team that analyzed rice samples from field experiments started by a University of Tokyo professor.

  • Study: Clean plates much more common when we eat at home

    Study: Clean plates much more common when we eat at home When people eat at home, there's typically not much left on their plates - and that means there's likely less going to landfills, according to new research from The Ohio State University.

  • Researchers use emojis to develop a modern face scale for product testing

    Researchers use emojis to develop a modern face scale for product testing A recent study by sensory researchers at Kansas State University's Olathe campus finds that emojis are a viable alternative to words when it comes to accurately measuring how kids feel about food, products and other experiences.

  • Research supports calls for food industry to reduce food product portion sizes

    Research supports calls for food industry to reduce food product portion sizes New research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, highlights the benefits of the food industry changing food product portion sizes in order to make healthier eating more normal.

  • Study finds high rates of type 1 diabetes near food swamps

    Study finds high rates of type 1 diabetes near food swamps Hotspots of type 1 diabetes in New York City are found in food swamps, areas with a higher proportion of fast food restaurants, for children and adults with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of the Endocrine Society.

  • Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions

    Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types of drug-drug and drug-food interactions as outputs of human-readable sentences, which allows in-depth understanding of the drug-drug and drug-food interactions.

  • Study: People waste nearly a pound of food daily

    Study: People waste nearly a pound of food daily Americans waste nearly a pound of food per person each day, but the exact amount of food we trash differs by how healthy your diet is, a new University of Vermont co-authored national study finds.

  • Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food

    Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth.
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