Tag: Science
Americas: Odorants behind Wagyu beef’s aroma found
Renowned for its soft texture and characteristic flavor, Wagyu beef — often referred to as Kobe beef in the US — has become one...
Europe: EFSA improves scientific assessments
European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Committee has developed three key methodological frameworks to improve the robustness, quality and transparency of the scientific assessments...
Americas: Babies should have peanuts to prevent allergy, says panel
An expert panel has issued clinical guidelines to aid health care providers in early introduction of peanut-containing foods to infants to prevent the development...
Europe: DNA shows food labeling accuracy
Mapping a food’s DNA could in the future be used as a tool to check that the product contains the ingredients stated on the...
Europe: Using limonene for better reduced-fat chocolate
Adding limonene to cocoa butter could result in better reduced-fat chocolate, researchers report in American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Previous research...
Europe: Tetra Pak offers paper on heat transfer in food particles
Tetra Pak has released a whitepaper that cracks the code of heat transfer when processing food with particles.
The company has developed a mathematical model,...
Asia Pacific: Vitamin D lowers lung cancer risk, finds study
A new research paper examines the role of vitamin D in reducing the risk of lung cancer, in particular, among patients with vitamin D...
Europe: New autoclave ensures food, operator safety, says Priorclave
Priorclave's new QCS H150 front-loading autoclave has a stainless steel, 500mm diameter sterilizing chamber accessed via a wide door opening that allows easy loading...
World: Africa should improve output of tree, root crops not mimic...
African countries cannot blindly adopt food policy initiatives that spurred the Green Revolution in Asia as a way to promote agricultural development, according to...
Americas: Purdue University showcases food safety technologies
Purdue University food safety researchers have developed a number of patented available technologies through the Office of Technology Commercialization that could provide more secure,...