By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered Endless Tastes We’re all familiar with the four basic tastes of sweet, sour, salt, and bitter found in our food. Some of us may have even heard of the...
BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Let us all rejoice! Why? Meal subscription plans. Now that meals can be shipped to our doorstep, those of us with busy schedules (or who choose not to or cannot cook) can breathe a sigh of...
BY: HEATHER DOLAN Protein is trending, big time. A 2015 International Food and Information Council survey indicated that 54% of consumers are increasing their protein intake1, while a 2016 Nielsen survey found that 73% of Americans prioritize high protein...
BY: DANIELLE RATH I’ve been studying energy drinks since 2003 and they continue to both fascinate and horrify me. They fascinate me because I’m a biochemistry major, or maybe it’s the other way around. Energy drinks are the reason...
BY: AMELIA CHEN I have a lot of fears, some more logical than others. And I’d probably count a meat allergy among the more logical ones. I first learned about this almost-unbelievable red meat allergy in a Radiolab podcast,...
BY: MORGAN REASE If you attended public schools in the United States as a child, I’m sure you learned of Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s founding fathers and a man of great curiosity and intellect. You probably recall...
BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM What does “clean label” even mean? Do consumers know? Does the food industry know? Mr. Clean, the King of Clean…does he even know? The answer is no. No one knows. There is no official definition of...
BY: JOHN GLEESON Feeling a bit unwell? Looking a wee bit peaky? Well there’s only one logical explanation for feeling this “under the weather”: obviously your blood pH is too acidic. According to pop-culture trends, the best cure for...
BY: MORGAN REASE While eating a bag of chips the other day, I noticed that like many other foods that brand themselves as healthy/natural, the chip bag advertised that the chips were made with sea salt. Why though? What’s...
By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer As Halloween arrives, ‘trick or treat’ is a popular phrase used to get a handful of delicious, sweet morsels. But what if you did get tricked? What if instead of a chocolate malt ball, you were...