28 Jul Racing the melt: the quest for heat-resistant chocolate
Ghana has long had a popular local confectionery, Golden Tree chocolate. Why not, as it's an integral centre of the cocoa industry? What's special about Golden Tree, however, is that it doesn't melt despite the year-long heat....
21 Jul This is the perfect tomato, not coming to a supermarket near you
Tomato lovers, rejoice, for science has achieved the impossible: the perfect supermarket tomato. Why won't it ever hit the supermarket shelves? Slate investigates...
21 Jul Wave of Silicon Valley-style disruption is hitting the food industry
A wave of Silicon Valley-style disruption is hitting the food industry. Laboratory-grown meat, vegan cheese and "animal free" milk and eggs are heading for consumers, often with backing from the tech sector and its financial allies.
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20 Jul ‘Cracking’ gluten intolerance?
Is this a solution to coeliac disease? Two Canadian scientists believe that sufferers may soon be able to eat whatever they want by taking a new egg-based supplement.
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20 Jul The science of ‘hangry’, or why some people get grumpy when they’re hungry
Have you ever snapped angrily at someone when you were hungry? Or has someone snapped angrily at you when they were hungry? If so, you’ve experienced “hangry” (an amalgam of hungry and angry) – the phenomenon whereby some people get grumpy and short-tempered when they’re...
16 Jul Meat without parents within a decade?
Delegates at this week's IFT 2015 congress in Chicago were privileged to hear, first hand, from the scientist who has developed the first artifical meat, Prof Mark Post of Maastricht University. Despite many hurdles, he's optimistic that cultured meat could be a reality within a...
15 Jul Starbucks coming to South Africa next year!
Starbucks is jumping into the surging coffee market in South Africa and will open shop here in mid 2016.
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15 Jul Nielsen announces its 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Winners
Over the past years, Nielsen has evaluated more than 20,000 new product launches, singling out those that truly "break through" the clutter. This year 12 companies have been named "Breakthrough Innovation Winners", recognising companies such as PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, and Red Bull. The Breakthrough Innovation...
15 Jul Prozac in the yoghurt aisle?
The idea that fermented foods — including yoghurt and kefir — are good for us goes way back. But could the benefits of "good bacteria" extend beyond our guts to our brains?
...15 Jul Profiling the super success/scam of Ultimate Sports Nutrition
From niche, sports nutrition products and supplements are now packing many SA retail aisles to the rafters. In fact, there are very few countries in the world where sport supplements take up so much shelf space.
14 Jul That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all wrong
Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different taste receptors. Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides and bitter at the back. It’s possibly the most recognisable symbol in...
13 Jul Four top food tech innovation winners from IFT Congress 2015
The winners of the 2015 IFT Food Expo Innovation Award were announced at IFT's annual congress and expo, currently underway in Chicago.
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09 Jul HPP update: Preserving fresh food longer without chemicals
Food technology innovators worldwide are busy creating potential solutions to tomorrow’s food supply challenges. The FutureFood 2050 series, an initiative supported by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), takes a look at the work of Carole Tonello, an industrial researcher working on high pressure processing...
09 Jul Remarkable anti-poverty pioneer wins 2015 World Food Prize
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of Brac, the largest non-governmental organisation on the planet, has been awarded the 2015 World Food prize for...
09 Jul Getting to grips with gluten: the modern immune system in a fritz?
The human default response to gluten is to treat it as the harmless protein it is — to not respond. So the real mystery of coeliac disease is what breaks that tolerance, and whatever that agent is, why has it become...
09 Jul Really? Can you be addicted to food?
Are you a “carb craver” or “chocaholic”? We often use language associated with addiction to describe our relationships with food. But is it really possible to be addicted to certain types of food?
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09 Jul BIG! How American food and people have expanded
The general philosophy in the United States seems to be "bigger is better". And over the past several decades, Americans have supersized sodas, refrigerators, food portions and themselves.
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08 Jul Ultrasound bread proofing tech close to commercialisation
Several bakeries and institutes across the EU are testing a novel proofing system that can slash energy consumption and improve bread quality using ultrasound generated water droplets instead of steam.
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08 Jul Natural carmine from fermentation, not bugs
Danish ingredients firm Chr Hansen reports it has devised technology to produce carmine through fermentation, meaning a cheaper, vegetarian, halaal and kosher version of the natural red colouring could be just a few years from commercial application.
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07 Jul Introducing the skinny, ‘sophisticated’ Oreo
Oreos are getting a skinny new look, and its maker, Mondelez International, says the new cookie is a "sophisticated" snack for grown-ups that isn't meant to be twisted or dunked.
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