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21 June

Viva Las Vegas – Presidential Insights on IFT17

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BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM IFT17 is an annual conference where food science professionals come to recharge, engage, and be blown away by academia’s latest research and industry’s latest innovations (http://www.iftevent.org/). IFT17 is the mecca of all food science events, and...

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16 June

Allergens: Peanuts, Soy, Milk… And Meat?

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BY: AMELIA CHEN I have a lot of fears, some more logical than others. And I’d probably count a meat allergy among the more logical ones. I first learned about this almost-unbelievable red meat allergy in a Radiolab podcast,...

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08 June

Palette Pleasing Pigments

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BY: MORGAN REASE Here in California and throughout the US it is once again time for farmers’ markets. Walking through the market, I like to survey the booths from a distance looking for produce that catches my eye. Deep...

color, color changing cocktail, food pigments Food Chemistry, Recipes 3 Comments

02 June

Maple Syrup: From Boiled Sap to Beloved National Food

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BY: PRAVEENA THIRUNATHAN Like every other kid, I always looked forward to my Saturday mornings. Those mornings were spent lazing around in bed, watching all my favourite cartoons, making progress on my video games, all while munching on whatever...

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25 May

Kombucha: A Craft of CreativiTEA

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BY: BRYAN LE Kombucha tea is a popular sour, effervescent drink that is made from the fermentation of sweetened tea by a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, affectionately called a SCOBY [1]. The SCOBY is a tiny ecosystem...

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10 May

Will This Make Me Sick? A Guide to Food Safety After Power Outages

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BY: MEGAN RAY NICHOLS There is a good reason many foods need to be refrigerated and/or fully cooked before you eat them. Actually, there are more than 250 good reasons in the form of bacteria-induced diseases commonly found in...

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26 April

Chew On This!

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BY: ALEX PIERCE When you really think about it, chewing gum is a very odd invention. We voluntarily and consistently chews to chew on a flavored gum with no intention of swallowing or gaining any nutritive value. Why do...

bubble gum, chewing gum, gum, gum science Food Chemistry, Food History & Tradition, Interviews Leave a Comment

20 April

Subtle Influences On Your Liking of Food As Told By Michelle Tanner

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BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM Do you realize that you make around 200 decisions about food per day [1]? And for all of those decisions there are lots of subtle influences that impact your final liking of the food product —...

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11 April

Funky Body Odors and Why Foods Cause Them

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BY: MORGAN REASE If you attended public schools in the United States as a child, I’m sure you learned of Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s founding fathers and a man of great curiosity and intellect. You probably recall...

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04 April

So you want to be a food entrepreneur? – A peek behind the curtain

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BY: NICOLE ARNOLD & LILY YANG You’ve perused the farmer’s markets, the grocery aisle, and the multitudes of food stands to find that coveted, delicious, strawberry-rhubarb jam you remember from days long past. You pass by vendors’ tables packed...

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