BY: ANNA WEST WALLER In this post Anna Waller, PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) and winner of the 2018 Campden BRI IFTSA Thesis Video competition, talks about her sponsored trip to UK. The trip spanned...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered In the past five years, the wonderful world of food has changed drastically. A new wave of food creation is coming, with the impending revolution of cellular agriculture, synthetic...
BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER & MACKENZIE HANNUM How one woman started a sensory consulting business when there was no place for a woman in Corporate America. Where it all started… Mona Wolf grew up in Southern Indiana. She was a...
BY: KENZI HANNUM Yep – you read that title right. Three-dimensional printing of food…if you’re like me you might be scrunching up your forehead as you attempt to wrap your mind around what I just said. Printing? 3D? Food?...
BY: PRAVEENA THIRUNATHAN Introduction The year is 2008. I’m a very impressionable 14 year old, sitting in class listening to my friends talk about their weekend. 14 year old friend: “My family and I crossed the Canada/US border to...
BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM As some of you may already know, in January, Netflix released a new 6-part documentary centered on the food industry. The official description of “Rotten” is as follows: “Local farming is fading as profit margins decide...
BY: AMELIA CHEN What is it about black foods that is creepy and intriguing at the same time? Remember the McDonald’s hamburger with squid ink buns (see above)? A little bit terrifying. But on the other hand, I really...
BY: NICOLE ARNOLD AND LILY YANG In 1906, the Federal Food and Drugs Act (Pure Food and Drug Act) was passed to prevent the sale, manufacture, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded foods, medicine, drugs, and liquor. With exposés...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered The Legend of Vanilla According to old legends told by the indigenous Totonac “Jaguar” people of Mexico, in a time before vanilla was cultivated, there lived the beautiful princess Tzacopontziza...
By Danielle “GreenEyedGuide” Rath Did you want to be a Food Scientist when you were growing up? As a teen or young adult, did you even know what a Food Scientist does on a daily basis? While it seems...