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27 October

The buzz on edible insects

By Cassandra Maya   Insects have a bad reputation. Some sting, some ruin our foods, and some even emerge from the depths of the ground every 17 years to scream from the trees. So why are top scientists now...
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edible insects, protein, sustainability Food History & Tradition, Food Trends Leave a Comment
20 October

Brunost – A Delicious Valorization of Whey – Part 1

By Karin Cho   As a volunteer at my university’s micro-creamery, I’ve helped make cheddar cheese and cheese curds. If you have made cheese from scratch, you know how little cheese is produced from a lot of milk. In...
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Brunost, cheese, valorization, whey Food History & Tradition Leave a Comment
13 October

Albino tea, what is it and why is it special?

By Ming Yin Kwong   When I ask you to imagine a tea field, what comes to your mind? For me, it has lush and green shrubs enveloped in morning cool mist, sitting against a green mountain side like...
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Albino Tea, caffeine, catechin, L-theanine, tea Education & Experiments Leave a Comment
29 September

Brewing Up Some New Innovation!

By Alexander J. Taylor   It’s been a bit of time since I wrote an article for Science Meets Food and boy-howdy, does it feel good to be back.  My last article, back in April, talked about the exciting...
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ATOMO, Cellular agriculture, chocolate, coffee, lab-grown, sustainability, ZHAW Food Technology Leave a Comment
15 September

Anti-nutrients: what do we have to know before getting scared

By Emanueli Backes   Nutritional health concerns Its common knowledge that consuming a balanced diet with the presence of fruits, legumes, seeds, vegetables, and variable protein sources is always welcome to people who are trying to eat better and...
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anti-nutrients, fruits, legumes, nutritional compounds, vegetables Food Chemistry, Health & Nutrition Leave a Comment
01 September

Pursuit of Sweetness: A History of Table Sugar (Sucrose)

By Hafida Mazoud   When I offered my friend a hot drink, I inquired whether they preferred it with or without sugar. The response was, “I eliminated added sugars from my diet because it is unnecessary and consuming less...
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carbohydrates, genetics, sucrose, sugar, sweeteners Education & Experiments, Food History & Tradition 1 Comment
25 August

Will the consumption of alternative protein sources be required in the future?

By Emanueli Backes   What awaits us The world’s population is predicted to reach 9.1 billion people by 2050 – which is 1.3 billion people more than today – according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
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algae, consumer acceptance, cultured meat, insects, nutrition, protein Education & Experiments, Food Trends Leave a Comment
30 July

Food Science for Relief and Development (FSRD)—An Emerging Area of Food Science

One of the more than 250+ small businesses in East Africa that are making probiotic yogurt thanks to a collaboration with Yoba for Life that helped develop a probiotic yogurt culture specially designed to fill this need.
By Abbey Thiel One of my most rewarding college classes wasn’t a class at all. It was an independent study where I collaborated with a local food pantry on just about any project where my knowledge of food science...
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food science, Food science for relief and development, FSRD, malnutrition, relief Education & Experiments Leave a Comment
07 July

Food-waste valorization: opportunities and cautions

By Emanueli Backes   The food waste problem Globally, up to 40% of food gets lost along the entire food supply chain [1]. This shocking huge number results from the production to consumption of food that is discarded, lost,...
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environmental impact, food safety, food waste, valorization Education & Experiments Leave a Comment
23 June

Can our diet influence our genes?

By Hafida Mazoud   Imagine a world in which we have power over our genetics, how they manifest, and how our diet determines our destiny. Epigenetics is the scientific discipline that gave this unreal theory a chance to exist,...
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diet, DNA, Epigenetics, gene expression, Methyl groups Education & Experiments, Health & Nutrition Leave a Comment
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