Mercury in Tuna Alert: Cysteine Could Be the Game Changer
A simple amino acid, cysteine, removes up to 35% of mercury from tuna. No change in taste or odor. Great discovery for food safety.
Boiled Bones in Desserts? A Gum Will Eliminate Animal Gelatin
Goodbye to traditional gelatin: the sap of legumes offers an alternative that will replicate sweets, candies and packaging. The challenge is launched.
Guilt-Free Sweetness: Allulose Challenges Sugar
Allulose promises to revolutionize our diet: sweet as sugar, but without the negative effects on blood sugar and body weight.
USA, decaffeinated coffee with solvent: more and more food derived
Decaffeinated alarm in the States: often treated with chloroform, a carcinogen. Petitions for a stop, but the problem is the entire food system.
Is fasting the oldest modern therapy? The impact on epilepsy and arthritis
Research from Queen Mary University confirms: prolonged fasting changes the body's energy sources in 3 days, with sustained fat mass loss and benefits beyond weight loss.
The super food of the future? A 'protein' rice with bovine cells incorporated
Korean scientists develop hybrid rice with beef cells, increasing its protein content by 8% without raising costs.
Goodbye red meat, welcome back a healthy heart: 14 days is enough
Mycoproteins emerge as a promising alternative to red meat: new studies show improvements for the heart and reduction of cholesterol in just 14 days.
Good morning! What's for breakfast in 2050?
Let's explore how climate change innovations could transform our breakfast by 2050.
We live more and more in food swamps: what they are, and why they are bad for us
What are the "food swamps" related to our urbanization, and why they can lead to increased rates of obesity and cancer.
KraftHeinz close to the impossible task: making sugars healthy
Sugars that don't just hurt, but are even good for you? An impossible feat, or so it seemed. Listen here.
Precision fermentation, the green technology that can save us all
Precision fermentation can initiate an unimaginable transformation of our food systems, and ignite a virtuous cycle that would literally save the planet.
A nanosensor detects pesticides in fruit within minutes
A new method allows to obtain nanosensors that in a few minutes detect pesticides in fruit: a bang for food safety
New foods (even the ones I hate) would reduce environmental impact by 80%
Cultivated meat, insects and other non-animal alternatives (in practice the so-called "new foods") would be good for the planet.
USA, in 2021, alternatives to meat saved 1 million animals
More and more people are no longer eating foods of animal origin. And meat alternatives start eroding factory farms.
Do you want to save millions of lives? Just change the salt
A small change with enormous consequences: the largest study of its kind in the world says it loud and clear, replacing salt saves the lives of millions of humans.
Microbes and solar energy could produce 10 times more food than plants
Getting food from solar panels and microbes? An interesting perspective, which according to a study has incredible efficiency.
Scientists create two functional foods to fight anemia
The fight against disease involves the enhancement of nutrition. A team develops two functional foods against anemia.
The Coral, modular indoor micro algae: wall superfood!
Algae are a vertically growing superfood, they offer oxygen and nutrition: The Coral is a natural and elegant way to integrate them into our home and our diet.
Let's change the food system: the current one will lead to a genocide
We can only feed 3,4 billion people sustainably. We could exceed 10, but we need to change the food system. Now.
Neo Fruits, the fruit of the future is 3D printed
In recent years, research has focused on new foods and ways of obtaining them. Neo Fruits is a project between design and biology that aims at the fruit of the future
A super bread made of micronutrients against malnutrition
A team managed to encapsulate 11 micronutrients in a tiny polymer that does not alter the flavor of the food. The challenge against malnutrition is launched.
