COG Blog

The colour of a ripe cherry is doing more work than aesthetics. The deep red comes from a class of plant compounds called anthocyanins, part of a wider family known as polyphenols. There are roughly...

You probably think of hydration as something that matters during exercise. A water bottle at the gym, an electrolyte drink after a long run, a glass of water before bed if you've been sweating. The...

A category that didn't really exist as a supermarket presence ten years ago is now one of the fastest-growing parts of UK soft drinks. Understanding why matters, partly because the trajectory is unusual, and partly...

The word "natural" is one of the most heavily marketed and least clearly defined words in UK food labelling. If you've ever picked up a snack, juice, or drink and thought the wording on the...

You’ve probably seen lion’s mane on an ingredient list somewhere recently. Maybe on a supplement label, maybe on the back of a can. It’s one of those ingredients that went from total obscurity to appearing...

Zinc gets less airtime than magnesium and a fraction of the attention given to vitamin D. That's odd, because the human brain is full of it. The hippocampus, the part that handles memory and spatial...