Wake up and smell the food odors

Before you read this, you might want to put on a little Lynyrd Skynyrd or some other related song. OK, now: Arm & Hammer has devised two new food pyramids that might prove just as useful as the new one with guy climbing the stairs. The people in the company’s Good Taste Labs have devised visual reminders about which foods tend to collect odors and which foods emit them. The top emitters: garlic, onions, cheese and fish. The top receivers: butter, milk, yogurt and water. “One of the reasons American households discard an average of 280 pounds of food a year is that some of these foods have been affected by pungent odors,” Ray Brown, some guy who works in the labs, says in the release. Let’s see if we can guess Arm & Hammer’s solution to the problem: 1. Seal “foul taste transmitters” in containers; 2. Beware of aging foods; and 3. (you saw this coming) Use Arm & Hammer baking soda in your fridge. I feel much better now.

—Posted by Aaron Baar

July 26, 2005 | Permalink