Find out exactly how different foods can improve your health. Backed up by evidence.
Fructose, Lactose, Fructans and Galactans are known as FODMAPs – small carbohydrates, which can be the cause of many forms of digestive discomfort. Dieticians often recommend following a low-FODMAP diet to relieve recurrent bloating, gas, cramps, diarrhea or constipation.
Asparagine is an amino acid, which has recently been rumored to aid the spread of breast cancer. Trials on mice have shown that low-asparagine diets, combined with blocking asparagine production in the body, greatly reduced the breast cancer’s ability to spread.
Antioxidants are molecules which can help stabilise other 'free radicals' in the body, to stop them mutating into something dangerous like cancer. So far, trials have not yet proven that increasing the intake of antioxidants can prevent cancer.
The Alkaline Diet suggests that replacing acid-forming foods with alkaline foods can improve health.