Food/Food Science

Credit: Janice Brahney/S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Really big systems, like ocean currents and weather, work on really big scales. And so too does your plastic waste,…

Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science CAMBRIDGE, MD (April 12, 2021)--University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Professor and Appalachian Laboratory Director Eric A. Davidson, an international…

What The Study Did: Changes in quality of diet from different sources of food among U.S. children and adults from 2003 to 2018 were examined in this survey study. Authors: Junxiu Liu, Ph.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount…

Credit: Xingang Wang/Lippman lab, CSHL/2021 Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations--mutations--that affect how genes act and function.…

Switch to cage-free alternatives for farm animals is possible, but only with appropriate supporting measuresCredit: Kipster Between 2018 and 2020, 1,4 million EU citizens signed the petition 'End the Cage Age', with the aim of…

UT Extension project recognized twice for risk management educationCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A project led by the University of Tennessee Center for Profitable Agriculture's Megan Bruch Leffew and Hal Pepper has…

A natural brilliant blue coloring has been discovered by an international team of researchers including chemists at the University of California, Davis. The new cyan blue, obtained from red cabbage, could be an alternative to synthetic…

Credit: University of Córdoba The global production of sheep's milk is one the rise, in the vast majority of cases used to produce cheese. However, a relatively large amount of milk is needed to produce it, so science is looking for…

Credit: Eva Henningsen Stem rust is a devastating disease of cereal crops, including barley, one of the first domesticated crops in agriculture and the fourth most widely grown crop in the world. Barley is unique because it is one of…

Credit: Dr. Devarajan Foodborne disease outbreaks linked to the consumption of fresh produce have caused farmers to re-evaluate their practices. A recent analysis of a 27-year experiment comparing organic and conventional soil…

Press passes now available for the year's biggest virtual nutrition meeting Is precision nutrition all hype or the future of nutrition? How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected food access and choices? Do our nutritional needs change as we…

Researchers trace the root of increased hybrid vigor in maize to differential translational fractionation of its subgenomesCredit: The Crop Journal The adage goes, "Two is better than one." Well, that might be true for endeavors…

Credit: Image courtesy Juliano Palacios-Abrantes. Seafood is a pillar of global food security--long recognized for its protein content. But research is highlighting a critical new link between the biodiversity of aquatic…

Researchers identify gene that helps plants sense heatCredit: Meng Chen/UCR By 2050 global warming could reduce crop yields by one-third. UC Riverside researchers have identified a gene that could put the genie back in the bottle.…

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 -- Home brewing enthusiasts and major manufacturers alike experience the same result of the beer-making process: mounds of leftover grain. Once all the flavor has been extracted from barley and other grains,…

Researchers studying the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on food production among smallholder bean farmers in 11 countries found multiple food security threatsCredit: Georgina Smith A new study analyzing bean production and food security…

Study suggests reducing fishing and addressing environmental changes would help cod recoverCredit: NOAA Overfishing likely did not cause the Atlantic cod, an iconic species, to evolve genetically and mature earlier, according…

Ranchers in United States, Brazil and other regions can help create a more climate-friendly beef systemCredit: Kenton Rowe for The Nature Conservancy A comprehensive assessment of 12 different strategies for reducing beef…

What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meatCredit: Dr. Miki Ben Dor Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…

LAWRENCE - Whereas most people look at Antoine Vollon's sumptuous painting "Mound of Butter" and see pure, yellow joy, University of Kansas Professor of Art History Marni Kessler sees a severed head and underlying rancidity. Same sort of…