Helping stevia plants brave the cold
Credit: Todd Wehner It's a fact - humans love sugar. For those of us who also like to watch our ...
Tag: Food/Food Science
NAU researcher collaborates with ASU to develop groundbreaking technology for food safety
Multidisciplinary project will use dendritic tags to enable food traceability any point in the supply chainCredit: Northern Arizona University According ...
Children’s dietary guidelines need to change, experts say
Parents need better advice on how to encourage kids to eat veggiesCredit: Flinders University Dietary and infant feeding guidelines should ...
Unconscious biases can drive foodborne illness outbreaks, MU researchers find
Study concludes outbreak prevention policies should account for inadvertent behaviors.Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the midst of ...
Floral probiotics reduce apple disease
Credit: Zhouqi Cui, Regan B. Huntley, Neil P. Schultes, Blaire Steven, and Quan Zeng While many celebrate apple blossoms as ...
Unveiling the cause of onion center rot
Credit: Alex Polidore Since 1983, the bacteria Pantoea ananatis has been known to infect several important crops including onions, rice, ...
Pungent-variable of sweet chili pepper Shishito: genes and seeds
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Fumiya Kondo, Kenichi Matsushima et al., Shinshu University, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, ...
Wild relatives offer a solution to devastating chickpea disease Ascochyta blight
Credit: Lars Kamphuis A staple for many, chickpeas are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber and offer many ...
UMD explores nettle as a functional food for obesity, diabetes, and immune health
Research moves beyond examining nettle as a supplement to examine its benefits as a foodCredit: Obanda Lab, University of Maryland ...
New Lancet series shows mixed progress on maternal and child undernutrition in last decade
Series authors issue a call to action for fast-tracked funding to improve program coverage and quality service delivery which have ...
Study shows cactus pear as drought-tolerant crop for sustainable fuel and food
Cactus crops remove carbon from the atmosphere, provide biofuel, food and livestock feedCredit: Photo by John Cushman, University of Nevada, ...
Species are our livelihoods
Biodiversity doesn't feature enough in large-scale assessments of ecosystem servicesCredit: Theresa Hickfang Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic ...
Food security: Irradiation and essential oil vapors for cereal treatment
A combined treatment of irradiation and essential oil vapors could effectively eliminate insects, bacteria and mold in stored grainsCredit: Christian ...
Protein discovery could help enable eco-friendly fungicides
Findings explain how plants use RNA to defend against fungal invadersCredit: Nicole Ward Gauthier/University of Kentucky New research reveals an ...
WOX9: A jack of all trades
Credit: Hendelman/Lippman lab/CSHL, 2021 Over evolutionary time scales, a single gene may acquire different roles in diverging species. However, revealing ...
How to choose low glycaemic index (GI) foods? A GI “glossary” of Asian foods released
Singapore research team's comprehensive study provides the glycaemic index values for a variety of foods that are consumed in non-Western ...
Chickpea genetics reduce need for chemicals
Credit: George Vandemark In recent years, hummus has become a pop culture food phenomenon, drawing praises from dieticians for the ...
New cell line could lead to more reliable vaccine development to fight costly pig virus
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - Vaccines are an important tool in fighting porcine reproductive and respiratory ...
Bitter receptor involved in anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol?
Human gum cells as a test system for investigating interactions between resveratrol, bitter receptors and the release of inflammatory markersCredit: ...
Rice plant resists arsenic
Chinese-German research team discovers plant variant that largely neutralises the toxinCredit: Sheng-Kai Sun / Nature Communications The agricultural cultivation of ...
