Curious Cook: Fruit and vegetables, cows and gas, and more fodder for thought

It is springtime and I am writing this in the UK, where I returned a fortnight ago for the first Covid-19 inoculation last weekend. It was a tiring journey by car, not improved by the requirement for multiple Covid-19 tests every few days and a mandatory 10-day quarantine period at home.

The disruption to the normal routine meant less reading of research papers and food news. But there are still a few snippets worth reporting.One is the findings of a longitudinal study conducted over 30 years on more than 100,000 Americans. This study was then validated against other longitudinal studies which encompassed almost 1.9 million people in 29 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North America.

So, even during these tough days of lockdowns and restrictions, please do try to eat some extra vegetables and fruits regularly, even if they are purchased as frozen foods. Research into the use of seaweed for methane reduction has been ongoing for over a decade but curiously there is little momentum in pushing for the inclusion of seaweed into cattle feed, despite the huge environmental benefits. Currently, it is estimated that cattle pump out the equivalent of an estimated 4.65 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide every year into our atmosphere.

This impact was evaluated and it was found that infants under three years old would have to eat around 1.5 kilos of beef a day to exceed the recommended maximum for infants, while adults have to consume over 8 kilos daily to do the same for adult limits. Such levels of meat consumption would be very significantly more dangerous than the iodine content itself.

One item of good news is that models suggest that pandemics do not always result from individual dangerous, infectious pathogens. It appears that several things need to fall into place before a pathogen can gain a foothold in the general human population.

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