Food, health get top billing at national chemistry meeting

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 08/17/2008 - 23:00

(Texas A&M University - Agricultural Communications) Well beyond the advice to drink enough H2O and not eat too much NaCl, the nation's chemists will get elemental with grapefruit, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and watermelons this week at the American Chemical Society meeting.The world's largest scientific society is observing the 100th anniversary of its agricultural and food chemistry division with a series of talks aimed at new discoveries in the health benefits from phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables.

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