The moderate consumption of red wine protects lungs from damage and activation of cancer cells, the three-year review from above 84 thousand people with a habit of smoking from 45 till 69 years has shown that.

Physicians have compared effects from the use of beer, red or white wine and strong alcohol on probability of development of tumors in lungs. After the analysis of factors of age, educational level and profits, index of weight, and also frequency of consumption of alcohol and smoking, doctors from the Department of Researches and Rating (California, USA) have concluded that the red wine warns cancer formations in the weakened smoker’s lungs.

With each glass of wine in a month the risk of the dangerous diagnosis decreased on 2 %, and the most essential reduction of risk was marked among those who drank one or two glasses daily — under such circumstances the probability of cancer was reduced at 60 %.

Nevertheless, physicians remind, that the best way to save your health is to stop smoking. So the results of the research should not be interpreted as the recommendation to the frequent and uncontrolled use of alcohol.

Fans of chocolate become more enterprising, enjoying more dark, more unusual combinations of aroma with higher percent of cocoa.

One of these days the American manufacturer of chocolate from Chicago Vosges, who have created chocolate with salt and slices of smoked bacon, has sent a party of his goods to Europe. It was sold within 48 hours, despite of its high price – 7,10 €.

Chocolate with spices, such as pepper, chili pepper and sweet fennel, has already created the dominating tendency in the market.

But recently new components are popular. In Belgium, for example, they make sweets seasoned by cauliflower, basil and tomato.

Illumination on supermarkets shelves considerably reduces working life of vegetables, researchers from La Rioja University inform. These results have been published in the «Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture».

Light opens on the surface of vegetables pores, and the exchange of oxygen and dioxide of carbon happens. Thus the plant loses liquid that leads to decrease of density and elasticity, loss of vitamins. Light vegetables without pigments change their color, and green lose durability. Thus, light reduces working life of broccoli at 3 day, and cauliflower and green onions at 8 days. Researchers have found out it, watching out after the influence of illumination on containers with various kinds of vegetables. Reaction to light depend also on what part of a plant is intended for the use.

The dried baobab pulp can become superfruit of 2009.

Baobab is a fruit of tree Adansonia digitata (“head over heels”) which grows in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. This fruit has a long history of use in Africa, it has a high maintenance of antioxidants. The main nutrients include vitamin C, riboflavin, niacin, pectin, citric and apple acids and the baobab oil also contains vitamins A, D and E.

As baobab fruits have received the status of food stuffs this year, they can be used widely in the food-processing industry, including the bricketed grain concentrate and cocktails. Manufacturers are extremely interested in properties of this product and connect a lot of prospects with it.

The biggest fondue in the world (the traditional dish from the fused cheese) was prepared in Swiss small town — Morge.

They have fused 1396,8 kg of cheese, basically gruyere in the tub of 1,8 m diameter. Then they poured the cheese in 950 small saucepans from which more than three thousand people could regale with this dish, dipping slices of bread in the cheese. They needed 800 kg of bakery products for this purpose.

Organizers of this action have submitted the official application for registration of this achievement in the “Book of Records”. All the means obtained from the event are listed on accounts of children’s boarding schools.