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14 August

Spain Ranked Healthiest Country in the World

BY: MARTA ALBIOL TAPIA The 2019 edition of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index ranked Spain as the world’s healthiest country, followed by Italy, Iceland, Japan and Switzerland. To come up with these rankings, Bloomberg researchers use data from the...

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07 August

Started From The Pyramid, Now We’re Here

By: Mackenzie Hannum I have this vivid memory sitting in class in elementary school as the teacher walked us through the Time for Kids magazine. On the front cover was a picture of the infamous food pyramid. But years...

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24 July

A Conversation with Dr. Kara Hoover On Uncovering the Evolution of Our Sense of Smell

By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer “I have a lot of happy smell memories. I suppose an abiding one is pipe smoke… I associate that to summers in West Virginia, my grandfather taking me on long walks along the railway. Sometimes my...

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10 July

In Search of Flavor

BY: BRYAN LE A monk started to prepare his simple lunch of rice, vegetables, and broth. After meditating for hours, he grew hungry and wanted a delicious meal. He looked inside a wooden vat of fermenting miso made from...

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03 July

Food Science in the Business-Driven World – Part I

BY: PAT POLOWSKY It’s often easiest to think of the food industry as being made of two parts: food producers and food sellers. Although this is a simple mental split to make, it doesn’t even begin to capture the...

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26 June

Soy: To Claim or Abstain

BY: ABBIE SOMMER Doing research on soy functional foods has led me to become accustomed to that delicious beany flavor of soy ingredients. As I munch on soy pretzels, I find myself thinking about how soy has been portrayed...

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19 June

Food Fraud – Part I: An Introduction

BY: JO-EZER LAU What is Food Fraud? Food fraud is the deception of customers and final consumers through intentional food (and drink) adulteration. [1] This manner of tampering is manifested by means of substituting one product for another, misrepresenting...

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12 June

Functions of Milk: Do plant-based varieties stack up?

BY: MEGAN LOW Plant-based products are all the rage right now – from protein beverages to meat analogs – and milk is no exception. However, when we think of milk coming from a nut, does it really make it…...

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22 May

An Inside Look at Post-Industrial Pizza Cheese

BY: BRYAN LE Every morning, I made the hour-long drive through rural Wisconsin to get to my summer job at the cheese plant. I typically woke up with eyes wide shut, groping in the dark to turn off my...

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08 May

One Hand-Packed Pint at a Time: An Interview with Bob Graeter, Vice President and Owner, Graeter’s Manufacturing Co.

BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM & ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Many of us have a memory of convincing our parents to take us out for ice cream. We would stand with our face and hands on the glass window case, admiring all the...

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