Plastic Tea Bags Shed Thousands of Microplastic Particles Into Every Cup, Study Finds
A new study in npj Science of Food finds that plastic tea bags release up to 2,498 microplastic particles per ...
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Chitosan Nanoparticles Boost Selenium and Iodine Uptake in Spinach Across Three Seasons
A three-season field trial shows that chitosan nanoparticles deliver selenium and iodine into spinach far more efficiently than conventional fertilizers ...
AI and Gene Editing Team Up to Slash the World’s Fruit and Vegetable Waste
A new review in Current Research in Food Science details how artificial intelligence, CRISPR gene editing and RNA interference are ...
Timed Drainage Turns Rice Into a Cadmium-Harvesting Crop for Polluted Paddies
Researchers show that timing paddy drainage to rice's peak cadmium uptake periods boosts metal extraction nearly eightfold, achieving 37.50 percent ...
Fly Larvae Turn Restaurant Waste Into Safe Protein Without Accumulating Mycotoxins
An industrial-scale Portuguese study shows black soldier fly larvae reared on naturally contaminated restaurant food waste do not bioaccumulate mycotoxins ...
Tiny DNA Cartridge Promises Faster, Cleaner Detection of Hidden Food Allergens
Researchers have developed a miniaturized solid-phase extraction cartridge that uses controlled pore glass and chaotropic-salt-free chemistry to deliver amplifiable DNA ...
Antibody Sensors Race to Catch Pesticides and Fungal Toxins in Our Food
A new review details how ELISA, lateral-flow immunoassays, and immunosensors are transforming the rapid detection of pesticide residues and mycotoxins ...
Seven Years of Surveillance Data Reveal Why Ready-to-Eat Foods Fail Safety Tests in Tropical Colombia
A seven-year analysis of Colombian surveillance data found that nearly 40 percent of ready-to-eat food samples failed microbiological standards, with ...
Blockchain, IoT and AI Race to Fix the World’s Broken Food Supply Chain
A systematic review finds that blockchain, IoT and artificial intelligence are transforming food supply chains, with integrated digital frameworks offering ...
Tiny Nanofiber Sensors Turn Blue to Reveal When Cooking Oil Has Gone Bad
Researchers have created solution-blown polyacrylonitrile nanofiber mats embedded with Congo red dye that change from red to blue within seconds ...
Gut-on-a-Chip Technology Moves Food Science Toward Personalized Nutrition
Microfluidic intestinal-chips that replicate human gut physiology are emerging as powerful tools for food safety testing, functional food development and ...
Sugar and Rice Flour Reshape the Flavor Chemistry of Low-Salt Shrimp Paste
A metabolomics study shows that adding glucose or glutinous rice flour to low-salt shrimp paste fermentation enhances protein breakdown, suppresses ...
Molecular screening finds no trace of dangerous mycobacteria in Algerian milk
A molecular survey of 391 milk samples from farms in northern Algeria detected no DNA from five pathogenic mycobacterial species, ...
Spirulina’s Blue Pigment Protein Can Trigger Allergy, but Digestion Weakens Its Grip
A University of Parma study shows that Spirulina's major pigment-protein C-phycocyanin binds IgE from sensitized patients but loses much of ...
Electric Pulses Zap Juice Pathogens While Preserving Antioxidants, Study Finds
A new global modeling study shows that total specific energy is the main driver of microbial inactivation in juices treated ...
Cold Plasma Turns Food Waste Into Valuable Compounds, Review Finds
A new review finds cold plasma can boost phenolic recovery from fruit and vegetable waste by 20 to 40 percent ...
Coconut-Derived Fatty Acid Slashes Poultry Food-Poisoning Bacteria, Meta-Analysis Finds
A new meta-analysis of broiler trials shows that caprylic acid, a fatty acid from coconut oil, cuts Campylobacter jejuni in ...
Machine Learning Pinpoints the Perfect Timing to Boost Vietnamese Balm Growth
Vietnamese researchers combined field trials with machine learning to show that a precisely timed spray of the cytokinin 6-benzyladenine boosts ...
Green Solvent Trick Spots Cancer-Linked Pollutants in Black Tea Drinks
Researchers developed a hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent microextraction method that sensitively detects four polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in black tea beverages ...
How a Common Grain Toxin Hijacks Cells—and How Probiotics Fight Back
A new review maps how the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol hijacks ribosomal and cellular signaling networks to drive intestinal, immune, neurological and ...
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