What if your food packaging could do more than just protect what’s inside? Imagine a package that can monitor freshness, detect spoilage, track its journey through the supply chain, and even communicate...
What if the biggest challenge of the future isn’t producing smarter gadgets, but producing enough food? As the global population races toward 9.7 billion by 2050, agriculture is under immense pressure to...
Milk has been an integral part of our lives, and we have different variations to enjoy it. Masala milk during festivities, haldi milk to recover from a cold and cough, kesar, badam or rose-flavoured milks to...
Food packaging plays a crucial role in meeting consumer demands, facilitating a wide product variety in supermarkets. Traditional packaging is often single-use, discarded after use, and while convenient, it...
ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION: ORS was developed in the 1960s, showing that sugar helps in the absorption of salt and water, crucial for treating dehydration. It was found during the 1971 Bangladesh crisis of...
Bakery products have been enjoyed for long by everyone. Bread and flat bread or roti have been part of our meals for ages and continues to fill our stomachs with many other foods of animal and plant origin...
What does Healthier baking really mean? Is it just the reduction of fat, and sugar and the inclusion of coarse grains? Or is there more to it? Today’s definition of healthier baking has expanded from...
During the COVID-19 pandemic and its eventual lockdown enforced on the world, Dalgona coffee due to social media trends, made its way to every house. The rarely heard name in the Indian households was very...
Cooking is an important part of our daily life. We all love and enjoy cooked food, whether prepared in a home kitchen or by professional chefs in a restaurant kitchen. We are often puzzled by the changes...
In a world where food waste contributes to environmental degradation and resource depletion, upcycling offers a sustainable and innovative solution to this problem. Upcycling food waste involves transforming...
The word “flavor” is abundantly used in our daily conversations, bringing up ideas of rich, vivid experiences that extend beyond the simple act of eating. A substance’s flavor includes its taste...
There is a lot of news about processed foods containing chemicals. Some are telling us that we should only eat home-cooked food and others are telling us that use only organic grains and fruits and vegetables as others...
Vada pav has become a global phenomenon. That pav was the earliest western bread that Indians knew when Portuguese introduced it many centuries ago. Indians had their own varieties of bread, both leavened and unleavened...
Presently, mankind is facing the biggest challenge of the growing global population. According to one WHO report, the world population was 7.6 billion in 2017 and will reach 8.6 billion in 2030, which will be 9.8...
Although Indians do have a large proportion of people who eat meat and fish, the overall diet of Indians is vegetarian including non-veg consumers. Thus cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables become a very important...
Milk is everyone’s favourite. It is the only food for infants. It is highly nutritious and is needed by children for their growth both physical and mental. It is recommended for young and old and also the patients who...
There has been some perception in the minds of consumers and activists that processing may be causing losses of nutrients and that home cooked foods using unprocessed ingredients in the market may be better than...
Because of the weather changes and the fear of consequent food insecurity, many advocated that we should consume less animal-based products including meat etc. Animal foods need much more resources than plant foods so...
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