Eating a diet of french fries, Pringles and white bread was enough to make one teenage boy lose his sight, according to a case study published in a medical journal.

TEHRAM- Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati yesterday criticized harshly those who believe imports of agro products would be cheaper than domestic products.

TEHRAN – Iran’s Food and Drug Administration is pushing food producers and importers to label their products as containing or not containing ingredients which are derived from genetically engineered plants. In an official letter to Iran’s universities of medical sciences, Vahid Mofid, the caretaker of the department of food and beverages in Food and Drug […]

TEHRAN — Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh-Hashemi and European health officials explored ways to increase cooperation on enhancing food security in the country and getting more involved in the European medical markets. Upon an official invitation of EU’s Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, Qazizadeh-Hashemi travelled to Europe on Monday to meet with health officials of Belgium and […]

The Divan of Bos’haq At’ema, written by the 14th century satirical poet Fakhreddin Hallaj Shirazi, is one of the most ancient sources about Persian cuisine, offering information about a wide range of Iranian foods consumed during that time as well as past centuries. Fakhreddin Hallaj Shirazi used Persian culinary vocabulary and kitchen terminology in his […]

In this series of articles you can trace cookery art in Iran during history up to present. The survey sheds light on different aspects of Iranian life, culture and civilization. Though there is no exact information about the origins of cooking by human beings on earth, nourishment is considered as one of the most important […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s exports of foodstuffs during the first half of the present Iranian calendar year (March 21- September 22, 2017) increased 12 percent in comparison with the same period in the year preceding, IRNA quoted the board chairman of Food Producers Cooperative as saying on Tuesday. According to Mehdi Karimi Tafreshi, Iran’s exports of foodstuff […]

TEHRAN – A research team discovered that the olive-derived compound oleuropein helps prevent type 2 diabetes. The health benefits of olives — and associated natural products such as olive oil — have long been recognized and touted by proponents of the Mediterranean diet. However, little was previously known about what specific compounds and biochemical interactions […]

TEHRAN — Good nutrition and healthy food is our first defense against disease and our source of energy to live and be active. Nutritional problems caused by an inadequate diet can be of many sorts, and when they affect a generation of youngsters, they can lower their learning capacities, thus compromising their futures, perpetuating a […]