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September is when the walnut harvest starts here in Catalonia, and the same question comes back across the counter: how many should you eat a day. The answer has something rare in nutrition going for it — there is an official number. In 2012 the European Union authorised a health claim for walnuts, ..

Every September the same thing happens. School starts again, the office air conditioning comes back on, and the "immunity" shelf fills up with tubs of zinc and vitamin C. This year the question arrived earlier than usual, because the health press has spent days comparing the two nutrients as though ..

On the chilled shelf, two jars of cabbage look like the same product. One holds millions of live bacteria; the other, none at all. The front of the label does not say so — the small print does, and the difference between them is exactly why anyone buys sauerkraut in the first place. This article is..

It is the question we get asked most at the counter this past year: how much protein do I need a day? Right behind it comes the second one, which already has its answer built in: which tub should I take? The official European figure, the one used as a reference for the whole adult population, is low..

Pick up a bottle of omega 3 and read the front: "1,000 mg". Turn it around and find the small print: "EPA 180 mg, DHA 120 mg". Both numbers are true, but only one of them matters, and it isn't the one on the lid. That gap explains why two bottles that look identical can cost the same and give you th..

In September, sleep goes off track. The holidays end, the usual schedule returns, it gets dark earlier and the body takes a few days to reset its clock. It is the time of year when most people buy melatonin, and also when most people buy it badly: the 10-milligram bottle, taken at any old time, in t..

On social media they call it fibermaxxing: pushing fibre as high as possible with oats, chia, legumes and vegetables. Google listed it among the trends of summer 2026 and the press has been writing about it since July. Like almost every wellness fad, it starts from a real fact —we eat too little fib..

There are eight jars of magnesium on the shelf and none of them explains the difference. Bisglycinate, citrate, threonate, carbonate, oxide. Prices run from eight to fifty-five euros and every label promises the same three things: energy, rest, muscle. The difference is real, but it isn't where the..

Every few years a spice becomes fashionable and reaches the shelves before anyone quite knows what to do with it. Right now it is the turn of za'atar and sumac, the two cornerstones of Middle Eastern cooking. Most people buy the jar, use it once on a bowl of hummus and leave it at the back of the cu..

Every late summer a fruit turns up in the shop that people pick up, look at and put straight back in the crate: it looks like a large green grape, but it smells of kiwi. It is the kiwiberry, or kiwiño, and almost everyone tries it for the first time because someone has told them you eat it whole, wi..

For decades, "milk" meant cow's milk. In the chiller at our stores there are now three different animals, and the question we get asked most in front of that shelf is always the same: which one do I take? There isn't a single answer, but there are clear criteria. And there's one difference almost n..

September doesn't start at the gym: it starts in the fridge. After two months of broken schedules, late dinners, more alcohol than usual and a lot of eating out, most people come back with the same feeling: bloating, sluggish digestion, an afternoon energy crash and the sense that something isn't qu..