By: Eileen Foerster Now that the semester is coming to an end, hibernating indoors is starting to sound more and more appealing, but most importantly, it’s the time for holiday foods! We all have traditions with our family and...
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...
By: Jo-Ezer Lau “As it is, even the rich never drink it in an unsophisticated state; the morals of the age being such, that it is the name, only of a vintage that is sold, the wines being adulterated...
To bridge the gap between academia, industry and the public at large, crowdsourcing for all food-related problems could be a good fit. Making case studies revolving around food science publicly available may lead to efficient problem-solving platforms. Crowdsourcing could...
By: Amanda Sia Welcome back for the second installment of “Building a Better Boba Ball.” In Part 1, we covered recent advancements in biotechnology, such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) and gene-editing technologies like CRISPR. Today’s post explores their application...
By: Pat Polowsky Sweetness. It’s one of the fundamental tastes that is crucial to just about every meal and eating occasion. We often think about dessert as being the focal point of sweet foods, but sugar often makes up...
By: Abbie Sommer These delicious sweets get a bad rep for their ingredient list and rumored unending shelf life. So what are each of those ingredients doing in there? A food company is not going to add extra ingredients...
By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer Kitchen Theory (KT) is a lot like a world-class athlete: extremely talented, detail-oriented, awe-inspiring and eager to learn. Kitchen Theory is a design studio with a chef’s table and a research laboratory. Kitchen Theory also serves...