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22 January

How Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Make Their Plant-Based Burgers

By: Elliot Dhuey Introduction I want to preface this article with the stark statistic that was reported by the 2nd Sustainable Development Goal by the United Nations, which states that there are more than 800 million undernourished people worldwide...

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15 January

By Day – A Sensory Scientist; By Night – An Entrepreneur: An Interview with Jhaelynn Elam

Jhaelynn Elam

By: Alex Pierce and Mackenzie Hannum Recently, Mackenzie and I were able to sit down and interview Jhaelynn Elam, not only a Sensory Scientist at a global consumer products company but also the CEO and founder of Sizije, a...

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08 January

Coffee Talk with Austin Childress

By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer Last year, I attended the annual Cincinnati, OH coffee festival. In attendance were local coffee vendors and speakers, Austin Childress being one of them. Speakers touched on everything from how to brew at home to the...

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01 January

Poppin’ the Mystery of Champagne’s Bubbles

By Abbey Thiel What’s the trick to trapping those tiny bubbles in champagne anyways? What’s the best part of the New Year? Well for me, it’s knowing that family and friends always have champagne on hand! I savor the...

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25 December

Top 10 Holiday Activities For the Ultimate Foodie

By: Eileen Foerster Now that the semester is coming to an end, hibernating indoors is starting to sound more and more appealing, but most importantly, it’s the time for holiday foods! We all have traditions with our family and...

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18 December

Seed Sharing: Cultivating the Future

By: Abbey Thiel Following in the footsteps of the open source software movement, seed varieties are being pledged as open source, providing an alternative beyond the expensive, licensed options currently on the market. Both these industries are plagued by...

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11 December

Fostering Collaboration: Continuation of An Interview with Maria Velissariou (Part 2)

By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum “The time for food is now.” – Maria Velissariou Food science is a major and a career that spans across many disciplines. Some people study chemistry, microbiology, statistics, engineering – the...

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04 December

Starting the Conversation: An Interview with Maria Velissariou, Chief Scientific Officer at IFT (Part 1)

By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum As a young girl in Greece, Maria Velissariou never imagined she would end up as Vice President for PepsiCo Nutrition R&D with responsibility for global grains, dairy and children’s platforms. Maria grew...

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27 November

Food Fraud – Part II – Wine Fraud and Common Forms of Adulteration

By: Jo-Ezer Lau “As it is, even the rich never drink it in an unsophisticated state; the morals of the age being such, that it is the name, only of a vintage that is sold, the wines being adulterated...

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20 November

Crowdsourcing for Food Scientists

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To bridge the gap between academia, industry and the public at large, crowdsourcing for all food-related problems could be a good fit. Making case studies revolving around food science publicly available may lead to efficient problem-solving platforms. Crowdsourcing could...

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