eridan2 | 1 year ago | on: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
the lactose is converted in glucose, so probably yes, but it depends on the original quantity of lactose
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eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Map of Surnames in Europe
Spanish site has a link to the Portuguese one - https://www.mapadeapellidos.eu/en/ - list of countries under the map
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Map of Surnames in Europe
The data sets are the phonebooks from the 1990s - see https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/info.php
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Map of Surnames in Europe
The Italian site (which is the original project) says: Surname maps have been obtained by processing data from telephone directories in the 1990s
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Map of Surnames in Europe
Not in Romania (the Hungarian name Kovacs is #90, and the Romanian names Feraru/Fieraru are not in top 100) But Popa (priest) is #1, Popescu (son of a priest) is #2, Cojocaru (furrier) is #46 and Szabo (tailor in Hungarian) is #62
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?
CRISPR will not be used to cure HIV (not in the way experimented in China) because the same mutation that confers resistance to HIV makes people more susceptible to infections by influenza and West Nile virus and it is associated with autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease and type 1 diabetes
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Dietary supplements causing severe liver injuries in Australians
Every country has an agency that regulates drugs and supplements. For Australia see https://www.tga.gov.au/complementary-medicines
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Dietary supplements causing severe liver injuries in Australians
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)
which brand do you use?
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep
we are smarter than humans of 200,000 years ago; symbolic. abstract thinking evolved 50000-60000 years ago (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048993/ )
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)
both are hot spices; in many places dried chili peppers were used as replacement for black pepper
eridan2 | 4 years ago | on: Deep genetic affinity between coastal Pacific and Amazonian natives
not necessarily seafaring people; the migration was over land, possible due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)
so they tested 2 Biorepair products, but only one was effective
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: List of Leaf Vegetables
you missinterpreted that graph; spinach, chards, celery, parsley, letucce, endive, watercress, brassica, all are in Eudicots order. The outliers are scallions (onions, garlic etc.) that are in Monocots order.
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: List of Leaf Vegetables
I found this site useful:
https://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000138000000000000000-1...
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: List of Leaf Vegetables
red orach?
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated
There is any similar site for France or other European countries?
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data
in Europe a supermarket buys the products; usually it will pay in 90/120/180 days and it has the option to return unsold items and will have advertising agreements for better/larger shelves, but everything is in the store is own by the store
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'
not everywhere; in Romania butter must have 80-90% fat, and there is butter 3/4 fat with 60-62% fat, and butter semi-fat with 39-41% fat
eridan2 | 5 years ago | on: Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
also the bitter brussel sprout:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel...
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