Ancestors

Prehistoric ancestors ate a rich variety of plant-based foods during the Stone Age, say scientists who discovered a collection of 780,000-year-old edible plants in Israel.

It was found that in ancient times our ancestors used to store water in containers made of copper. Here's why.

The paleo diet is a throwback to what we suppose our ancestors ate, a very long time ago, and that includes only fresh fruit, vegetables, seafood, eggs, meat and nuts. Many of these recipes are ...

Our ancestors have left us with a trove of traditional practises that became an integral part of the Indian culture and were also considered healthy. One of these practises includes sprinkling water in a circular ...

A fresco has been found on the wall of a house in Pompeii and it depicts what pizza's first ancestor may have looked like.

It's the staple food of almost half the world's population, yet for most Brits it comes in just two types.We've used rice in Britain since the middle ages: our ancestors boiled it in milk with ...

Raw foodists and other campaign groups are eager for us to return to the sort of food our ancient ancestors ate. But how much truth is there in their various claims, and is there any ...

At Candlenut restaurant, chef Malcolm Lee is preserving the deeply flavourful cooking of his ancestors long-ago immigrants from China to Singapore.

Increasing prosperity in developing countries has been accompanied by a sudden increase in caloric intake.

Claims by proponents of the carbohydrate-averse food regimen supposedly based on what our paleolithic ancestors ate do not stand up to scientific scrutiny.