Americas: Team wins competition for cold boxes for rental
A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize for smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that...
Americas: Teens report positive effects on appetite after eating soy-protein snacks, find researchers
Although eating high-protein, afternoon snacks can aid appetite control in adults, little information exists to guide parents on what types of snacks might benefit...
Europe: New screening method to analyze paper packaging materials
A PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has resulted in a method for faster analysis of chemicals in paper...
Americas: New technology may help identify safe alternatives to BPA
Numerous studies have linked exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic, receipt paper, toys and other products with various health problems, from poor growth...
Europe: Of profitability and complying with regulatory requirements
Manufacturers and producers are facing constantly growing challenges to meet all guidelines for quality assurance of production processes and environments, such as the Good...
Asia Pacific: Detecting trace amounts of pesticide in less than two hours
Food scientists from the National University of Singapore developed a rapid and highly sensitive screening technique capable of detecting minute amounts of pyrethroids in...
Europe: Pharmactive Biotech Products releases ingredient for weight management
Pharmactive Biotech Products launches CSAT+, a bioactive blend of carob bean extracts with a synergetic effect.
Two animal studies, one published in April 2020, have...
Asia Pacific: Making a nutritious beverage out of soy pulp waste
Associate professor Liu Shao Quan and doctoral student Vong Weng Chan from the NUS Food Science and Technology Programme have devised a cocktail of...
Europe: GanedenBC30 found to improve digestion of plant proteins
New research confirms that GanedenBC30 increases digestibility for pea, rice and soy proteins.
This finding is reportedly especially important to the growing sports and fitness...
Europe: Researchers find strawberries inhibit lab-grown breast cancer cells
A study by European and Latin American researchers has shown that strawberry extract can inhibit the spread of laboratory-grown breast cancer cells, even when...