Phil Lempert, host of Before you Bite, gives you much needed information on foods, as well as nutrition facts, and new cutting edge product reviews on different supermarket items.  Each week Phil provides food information you need to know before you bite.  In this podcast Phil talks about the five things you need to know about poultry.

Canned tuna and powdered milk have been dubbed “the new duct tape” now that Mike Levitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, has advised Americans to start stockpiling several weeks' worth of food in anticipation of a possible bird flu outbreak. A pandemic could conceivably disrupt our daily lives drastically for weeks on end, if previous pandemics are anything to judge by. “When you go to the store and buy three cans of tuna fish, buy a fourth and put it under the bed,” Leavitt said at a conference in Wyoming this past weekend. “When you go to the store to buy some milk, pick up a box of powdered milk, put it under the bed.” Al Franken speculated on his radio show this afternoon that the emphasis on canned tuna and powdered milk “can only mean one thing: the government is planning to fight the bird flu with cats.”

Sauerkraut’s being touted as a wonder food these days, maybe even an antidote to avian flu. First came the Polish Women’s Health Study, showing an association between sauerkraut consumption and a reduced risk of breast cancer.

Then came the discovery that kimchi, a South Korean cousin to sauerkraut, may fight off bird flu; after 13 bird flu-infected chickens were fed kimchi for one week, 11 of the birds appeared to recover. The buzz about sauerkraut’s benefits sent sales soaring in the U.S. and Britain.