Feeding the world through global warming: Altering one plant gene makes for climate-resilient crops
It's estimated that humanity will have to produce around 50% more food than we currently do to keep up with ...
Tag: food
What makes indian food so unique – a molecular explanation
After they analyzed more than 2,000 traditional Indian recipes down to the molecular levels, scientists now think they know what ...
Wild oats might be the first cereal consumed by humans, as early as the Stone Ages
While analysing starch grains on ancient stone grinding tools from southern Italy, Marta Mariotti Lippi at the University of Florence ...
Ever-growing population and climate instability will lead to severe food shortages by 2050
The food industry has become much more efficient in the last few decades as a result of globalization, but also ...
Astronauts to eat food grown in space, for the first time
Back in 2013, we were telling you about about a small agricultural project on the International Space Station - now, ...
Science delivers: new seaweed tastes like bacon, healthier than kale
The unexpectedly delicious new creation is actually a new strain of red marine algae named dulse. It's packed full of ...
Google AI will tell you how many calories there are in your food pics
We've all seen them - the food pics are everywhere. Instagram has basically become a food porn haven, with everyone ...
Some foods taste better (or less atrocious) while flying
The loud noise that usually airline passengers have to deal with in mid-flight can significantly alter how food tastes. According ...
Smiley face labels can encourage kids to eat healthier food
An innovative study suggests that something as small as labeling healthy foods with a small smiley face can make kids ...
Here’s what kids eat at school lunch around the world. Needless to say, US trails behind
A typical school cafeteria serving contains fried food stuff like nuggets, mashed potatoes or peas. Kids' nutritional uptake and diet ...
Seattle is the first US city that requires citizens to separate food waste from trash
Seattle, an US city with one of the highest recycling rates in the country, is now effectively mandating its citizens ...
Nutritional labels today lead to decisions indistinguishable from chance – there’s something better, though
Every food product is mandated in most of the world to list its nutritional values - how much proteins, lipids, ...
Biggest indoor farm is 100 times more productive than conventional agriculture
An inspired entrepreneur, Shigeharu Shimamura, took an old semiconductor factory that was abandoned following the 2011 Japan disaster and turned ...
Both seed size and number can be increased at the same time, an important find for food security
For a long time, scientists have believed there's a sort of net trade-off between the number of seeds and the ...
Males may be Wired to choose Sex over Food
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, or so the old adage goes, but how different are men ...
Gut bacteria may control your mind by influencing your dietary choices
Gut bacteria may influence what we want to eat. GIF: University of California Our gut hosts an enormous population of ...
Chart shows we’re not growing enough food to feed the world of 2050
“Feeding nine billion people in a truly sustainable way will be one of the greatest challenges our civilization has ever faced,” ...
Organic label makes regular food taste better or about the “health halo effect”
In a society that attempts to pass from an opulent attitude towards consumption to a much more temperate, health-centered one, ...
Big food corporations work with corrupt government agencies to eliminate “small time” competition and take over the industry
As you sit in the morning and have your daily coffee or tea and enjoy your breakfast, take a moment ...
Cheese has a 7500 year history
Polish researchers have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated ...
Cooking food helped early humans grow bigger brains
The pyramids, art, all of the world's great inventions, literary works, just about any valuable intellectual work can be traced ...
The ‘five seconds rule’ has been debunked
Instead of counting the seconds it's been on the floor; it's just safer if you'd wash that hot-god or, better ...
Food demand to double by 2050, new study says
According to a new report released online by researchers of University of Minnesota, the world's food demand is expected to double ...
If you think you have food allergies… well… you probably don’t
A new study has shown that most people who think they have food alergies (over 80% in fact) actually don't ...
Last supper paintings shows biblical growth of portions
According to a research conducted by researchers from the Cornell University the portions and the plates depicted in more than ...
What YOU can do to help Haiti
As you probably know, a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, basically destroying the country. The situation there was extremely bad even ...
Taking a glance at space food
Astronauts definitely don't have it easy; preparing and training for most of your life, to go on a mission that ...
Incredible waster; half of Earth’s food is wasted
It's hard to believe that about half of the food produced on our planet is wasted, especially when about a ...
