BY: NORA IDRINA Chocolate has always been important one way or another, serving various purposes at different points in history and geography. In modern times, one of its most instantly recognizable uses is in romance where it plays a...
BY: NORA IDRINA When you think of broccoli, the first image that comes to mind is a miniature green tree. But did you know that there are also mini purple trees? The reason we don’t see purplish broccoli in...
BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Kopi is the word for coffee in the Bahasa Indonesian language. Luwak is an Indonesian name of the Asian palm civet native to Southeast Asia shown in the picture below.1 The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)...
BY: AMANDA SIA What is Big Data & Predictive Analytics? Despite being such a buzzword recently, big data is still a pretty nebulous term. While datasets have always existed, with recent advances in technology, we have more ways than...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered Origins of Soy Sauce The original predecessors of soy sauce began to appear in China more than 2,500 years ago. Salt was scarce and expensive at the time, and...
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: NICOLE ARNOLD On February 12, 2018, the 9th edition of the Food Code was released as the 2017 FDA Model Food Code and, like Kim Kardashian, it nearly broke the Internet! Just kidding. Not sure many people even...
BY: AMELIA CHEN There is no shortage of laughably absurd images on the Internet, but I think this one is up there for me: I know sometimes it’s hard to avoid plastic packaging at the grocery store, but I...
By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered The following is an opinion essay submitted to the 2018 AAAS Science & Human Rights Essay Competition. The Origins of Modern Food Technology The overreaching aims of the modern food...
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...