Nutrition Meets Food Science

Processing to Reduce Anti-Nutritional Factors from Millets

Millets are considered to be crops that would be among the important ones in the future because they can resist pests and diseases as well as could tolerate and grow under harsher environmental conditions in...

Healthy Snacks is Where Future Growth Will be

Health professionals have been emphasising that Indians need more dietary fibre and proteins with less fat, sugar and salt in their diet, the industry also started offering many food products with lesser fat...

Whole Wheat Flour Bread is Difficult to Make

Bread has been made for a long time and is not very difficult. All one requires is wheat flour, yeast and water with maybe some salt. The ingredients are mixed into a nice dough and the dough is allowed to...

Eggs to Omelette

People love to eat eggs, whether in the morning as breakfast, lunch or dinner. Eggs have been a part of our daily life for thousands of years, obviously, because of their taste. But, apart from taste, there...

The Journey of Coffee from Bean to Cup

Coffee is the most popular beverage consumed all over the world. Younger or older, everyone enjoys drinking coffee as it refreshes our mind and makes feel energetic. The morning is incomplete without a hot cup...

Seaweed-A Marine Wonder

Nature is bountiful in so many ways. Every resource available in nature is to help all the organisms thriving in world.  The seas and oceans are no different, besides their beauty they also provide food not...

Natural Colour for Healthier Food Products by Dr Hormaz Patva, Technical Director Sensient India Private Limited

Even before a consumer tastes a food product, the propensity to buy is enhanced by colour of the product. An attractive colour is associated with quality and freshness. Consumers select food products based on...

Understanding flavours & its customisation by Sachin Rathod, Flavourist, Keva Flavours

What is Flavour?   Flavour is the sum of any food’s sensory characteristics, as perceived primarily by the senses of smell, taste, texture and tactile receptors (overall mouthfeel), as received and...

Importance of Colours & Flavours for Food Products with Healthy Ingredients: Prof Jagadish Pai, Executive Director, PFNDAI

Market for healthy food products is growing rapidly as more people are looking for foods that not only provide sustenance but also the health. Global market for functional food & natural health products is...

Stay Bugged to be Healthy by Dr B Sesikeran, former Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad; Hon. Scientific Director, PFNDAI

Millions of “bugs” or bacteria live in and around us. We assume that all microorganisms are harmful for health, but this is not true. Most bacteria are beneficial for our existence, there are only a small...

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