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  • HP baked beans : in a rich tomato sauce : high in fibre contains protein / HP Foods Limited.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • A crowd of poorly-dressed people are reaching out their hands to an angel who is carrying a container with food in it and others with baskets of bread and canisters. Etching.
  • Allium schoenoprasum L. Alliaceae. Chives. Bulbour perennial herb. 'schoenoprasm' means 'rush leek' in Greek, referring to the narrow leaves. Distribution: Asia, Europe and North America. Leaves used as a garnish on cooked food and in salads. However like others in Boraginaceae it contains the pyrrolizidine alkaloid cynoglossine which causes liver damage. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A mother with her two young children beside a table of nutritious food containing vitamin A: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • Phytin "(calcium magnesium salt of inositol hexaphosphoric acid) : a nerve food and general tonic containing about 22 per cent. of organically combined assimilable and non-toxic phosphorus : blotter no.2 / The Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • Illicium anisatum L. Illiciaceae Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. This was also called Illicium religiosum and the fruits are toxic. Effects of taking Illicium anisatum tea include epilepsy, vomiting, shakiness and rapid eye movements (US Food and Drug Administration report, 2003). Lindley (1838) and Bentley (1861) thought that I. anisatum was used in cooking, but they were describing the uses of I. verum which is used as a spice in Asia. Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum is 'used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples and was called Skimi by Kaempfer. This derives from the Japanese word 'shi-kimi'. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Posset pot. English delftware, circa 1730.
  • Posset pot, delftware, Bristol, early 18th C.
  • This is the age of plastics and in plastic barrels and boxes we are leading the way... / Yzermans & Co.
  • Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : the facts / McDonald's Restaurants Limited, Public Relations Department.
  • Pathways of cholera infection: water, food, etc; and methods of hygiene. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Dui ulcer
  • An orange tree and a bottle of orange juice, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph by Eileen Evans.
  • A foodwarmer, White Staffordshire or Leeds, 19thC.
  • The outline of a bottle, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • Sources of protein for children and adults: milk, meat, fish, eggs and cheese. Colour lithograph, 1966.
  • Pure shredded beef suet / prepared and sold by J.H. Lord.
  • Illustrated guide to preventing cholera in Kenya. Lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Allium sativum (Garlic)
  • A beautiful picture sent free / Frame-Food Co., Ltd.
  • Woman carrying a basket of maize
  • A beautiful picture sent free / Frame-Food Co., Ltd.
  • A beautiful picture sent free / Frame-Food Co., Ltd.
  • A beautiful picture sent free / Frame-Food Co., Ltd.