As Switzerland prepares to legalise three insect species for food, we talk to one Finnish researcher on the best ways to process mealworms and crickets to get the optimal flavour and texture profile.
The Institute of Food Science and Technology’s Jubilee conference offered something for everyone involved in food production and research and painted a multi-coloured picture of the industry.
The Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) has appointed Professor Charles Brennan as the new editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Food Science & Technology (IJFST).
Wageningen University in the Netherlands has partnered with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to boost food science and technology research, the universities have said.
The quest to have food to survive a five-year mission to Mars is at least two decades away, but ‘we’ll get there’, says Dr Michele Perchonok, advanced food technology project scientist at NASA in Houston.
Natural ingredients giant Naturex has grown its portfolio of functional health ingredients, whilst increasing its technological and production capabilities with the acquisition of Burgundy Botanical Extracts.
PlantLibra, a €6m European Union-backed project that investigating the complex area of botanical nutrition science has convened a meeting in Brussels, where regulators from 19 EU countries were educated about plant science and the project’s aims.
The number of food science graduates is falling across the globe, but measures are in place to halt the decline. Has disaster been averted? Is the industry’s future assured?
Food scientists are becoming a rare species in Britain, and things
won't change unless schools and food firms start telling young
people there is more to food than a supermarket depot.
Scientists in Australia are "dragging food science into the 21st
century" by using neutrons to probe the molecular structure of food
and ingredients, and changes that occur during processing.
Declining numbers of graduates entering the food industry is
seriously threatening the sectors ability to meet the needs for
further growth, warns the IFST.
DSM, the largest fermentation company in the world, sheds its HVP
business to industry conglomerate Oterap Holding in a bid to focus
on core activities, writes Lindsey Partos.
Decas Cranberry Products' ingredients division has introduced a new
cranberry extract that it claims offers an increased level of
anti-microbial and antioxidant properties than the leading product
in the category.
