By Diana Maricruz Perez Santos Food industry has a lot of processes: cooking, baking, frying, drying and more. Thankfully these processes exist so now we can eat all kinds of unimaginable foods. Food engineering is the knowledge area that...
Name: José Reyes-De-Corcuera Job title: Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator Company: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia Highest Level of Education/Degree: Ph.D., Engineering Science, Washington State University What does your schedule look like today? This...
By: Thomas Siebertz The GMO debate is heavily divided. Some people believe GMO’s are killing us. The current science tells us otherwise. One thing that is clear is that there is still more research to be done in this...
By: Thomas Siebertz Simply put, this stuff is amazing! I recently got to take a tour of the Grand Ten Distillery and learn about the distilling process. Spencer, the owner, showed me around and afterwards...
By Dr. Jesse Trushenski Originally appeared in The Factual Fish Squeezer “The bottom line on aquaculture, hatcheries, and farmed fish” Brightly colored and beautiful, Glofish like the ones pictured here are quite popular in the aquarium trade. They delight children...
By Thomas Siebertz Food Science Students: Get Your Research in Front of Thousands! Have you been working hard all year on the next big thing in the food science field? The 2014 annual IFT meeting is your chance to...
By Diana Maricruz Perez Santos Everything depends upon the context in which it is applied. As experts on the subject, we know junk food is characterized by providing “empty” calories that promote weight gain and that this may be...
By Thomas Siebertz One of the ways we help protect public health is through product recalls. Recalls can happen for a variety of reasons including mislabeling of product, biological/physical contamination or for quality issues. It’s extremely important for companies...
By Kendall Cressman This year the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Food Science Club has been keeping busy and having fun! Each month we’ve spent two days helping a church in the area host a Food Pantry for families in need...
Kai surfing in Australia Name: Kai Knoerzer Job title: Senior Research Scientist Company: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Div. Animal, Food and Health Sciences Highest Level of Education/Degree: PhD What does your schedule look like today? Way too many meetings. Need to...