By Cassandra Maya Do you love food? Yeah, me too. That’s why we’re both here, right? But we need to address something. The latest United Nations Environment Programme (2021) report estimates that approximately 931 million tonnes of food...
By Karin Cho Shelby Smith is the owner of Gym-N-Eat Crickets, a business focused on delivering the highest quality cricket products as a sustainable, alternative protein source. She is one of the popular guest speakers for the Iowa chapter...
By Karin Cho Part Three: Recruitment/Visit Weekend Welcome back to part three of the series “Pursuing a Graduate Degree in Food Science for the Non-Food Science Students”. In part one, I described different strategies for how non-food science students...
By: Ming Yin Kwong Body Hi Lauran! It is a pleasure to meet you. Can you please introduce yourself? L: My name is Lauran Madden and I am the Director of Research & Product Development at BlueNalu. My educational...
By: Alexander J. Taylor Good morning Alex! Thanks for joining me in this interview for Science Meets Food. First off, would you mind telling me a bit about yourself – your name, your occupation, and how about your favorite...
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...
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...
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...
By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum Featured Image by Pickwriters “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,...
By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum Featured Image by Pickwriters 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...