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I feel sad for the white potato. Having been a massively important part of our diets for generations and the most important source of vitamin C in the UK, they are now often put on the ‘bad food’ list. However, the sweet potato is having a ball, hailed as a ‘super food’ and regularly featuring […]

Mars used to have the advertising slogan “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play” and was regularly recommended as a sports snack or even a meal replacement. Now advice given to junior sports teams almost always warns against eating chocolate bars, recommending “energy bars, flapjack, muesli bars or granola” instead. There are a huge array of […]

The slogan “Go to work on an egg” was used by the egg marketing board in the 1950s. The basis of the campaign was that having an egg for breakfast was the best way to start the working day. The egg marketing board was disbanded in 1971 and since then eggs have had some major bad press with worries about their cholesterol content in […]

Sweet Chestnuts FINDING CHESTNUTS 2013 looks like it is going to be a bumper year for sweet chestnuts, which generally benefit from a hard frost the year before and with the winds this week there are loads of the spiky cased nuts on the ground ready to be picked up. They are best picked up […]