Tag: food
Cooking at home is cheaper, more healthy, less fattening — a major boost for nutritional sustainability
Writing this article left me starving. To the pans!
Students will eat at the salad bar — all it takes is marketing and some parental help
You don't need an ID for this bar.
Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today
Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.
NASA establishes first Space Technology Research Institutes to make Mars a self-sufficient colony
"Producing > packing" -- NASA.
A fifth of the world’s food is lost to waste and over-eating
The world grows enough food. The challenge lies in controlling waste and protein distribution.
Taxing junk food and subsidizing healthy items will make us live longer and save billions in the health system
That's 500,000 extra years of healthy life and more than AUD 3 billion in costs for Australia's current population.
Dogs and capuchins judge you as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, hint at the birth of human morality
Something as simple as opening a jar goes a long way with anyone. Even other species.
Have dinner earlier if you’re trying to lose weight, study says
Minding when you eat might be just as important as what, when you're trying to slim down.
What Wikipedia can’t tell you about making cheese
DIY for the holidays!
Crop spray boosts wheat yield by 20% without the use of GMOs
The improvement is simply astonishing.
Time to update the Paleo Diet — it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found
Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.
The U.S. public doesn’t trust scientists over GMO foods, Pew report says
More like GMOhno!
Book review: ‘Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food’
This is a pragmatic take to gusto, one that both foodies and the 'profane' will enjoy.
New device enables you to grow your own food from plant cells
If you want to grow some food from scratch... you need Finnish researchers.
Mismatching foods can make for a better meal
Are we having spaghetti? OK, then I'd like some spring rolls to go with that.
Finnish appliance grows crops from cells in under a week
This is a berry exciting device.
Chicken korma shows why we like the food we like
Pass me some of that fat.
Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs — but we’re not having it
Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.
Forget the ‘five-second rule’, it’s so garbage it will make you sick
Don't kid yourself anymore. You knew all along it was BS but you still ate that toast.
Robotic surveillance without enforcement isn’t enough to stop people from stealing, a new study found
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
This app lets you buy leftover food from UK restaurants – and it’s really cheap
Keeping food inside our bellies instead of the bin.
Top chefs are using leftover food in Rio to feed the poor
Leftover food from the Olympic Village in Rio is being prepared by a group of international chefs and served to ...
Crops employ “austerity measures” to conserve water in drought conditions
By limiting the growth of their roots, grassy crops conserve soil water during drought.
Vegetables grown on Mars could be healthier than their Earth-grown counterparts
Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.
Study shows which celebrities endorse unhealthy foods and sodas
They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.
New packaging keeps food fresh way longer, without any plastic
The unlikely ally is silk.
Our best bet at stopping food waste is to be more responsible, not more efficient
Humans are throwing away an insane quantity of food, both in the developed and in developing countries. While in the ...
Researchers on the hunt for students’ junk-food-gene
Takeout, instant noodles and cheap beer -- the only known organisms able to survive solely on these three items are ...
The cake isn’t a lie — but the nutritional value on the box definitely is
Food packaging does influence the amount of calories consumed, a new study found. By showing portion sizes much larger than ...
Prairie dogs murder ground squirrels to stave off competition for food
Prairie dogs aren't as innocent as they look. Researchers have documented as the animals slaughter ground squirrels for control over ...
The Crunch Effect — how listening to your chewing can help you lose weight
The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study ...
No web, no worries — spiders also like to eat vegetarian
Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the ...
How the American diet leaves people both overfed and undernourished at the same time
More than half of American's calories come from ultra-processed foods, a new study finds. The data also indicates close to ...
Is the impact of climate change on agriculture underestimated?
A new paper suggests that we've been overlooking how two key human responses to climate -- the total area farmed ...
Sharks usually eat meals smaller than one of yours
The voracious reputation of sharks might soon change as marine biologists uncover that most coral reef sharks eat pray smaller ...
New enzyme could be used as an insulin alternative, to treat diabetes and obesity
University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) scientists have identified a new enzyme that could protect the body from toxic ...
Study finds why New Year’s resolutions to lose weight fail
Throughout our hunter-forager days, humans have developed a subconscious urge to over-eat and became less and less psychologically equipped to ...
A pocket-sized gadget uses spectroscopy and tells you what’s inside food
One of the most exciting gadgets we've seen at CES this year comes from a French startup called DietSensor, which collaborated ...
The geometry of a Pringle
Mathematics is not about equations, numbers, computation or algorithms: It is about Understanding! There are many ways to understand it ...
China builds massive cloning factory to feed its people
A massive, 200 million yuan (over $31 million) commercial animal cloning facility will be built in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development ...
Study finds most people would support a “meat tax”
Agriculture is a big driver of climate change, with the meat industry standing out among the rest as a source ...
Why most diets don’t work
Universal diets don't work because "healthy food" varies from person to person, a new study has found. Image via Flickr. Sadly, ...
Men ate almost twice as much when they dined with women
We all know that men like to impress the fairer members of our species, and this permeates into almost everything ...
Good quality breakfast linked to better performance in school
Cardiff University public health experts have discovered a powerful link between a pupil's breakfast quality and their performance at school. ...
Orphan gene boosts the protein levels of crops
A recent study from Iowa State University shows how a gene, found in a single plant species so far, can ...
Eating sweets with every meal may help your memory
Scientists at the Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center found that the brain uses ...
