For many Indians, millets bring back memories of traditional family meals and recipes passed down through generations. Yet over the years, rice and wheat became the dominant staples on our plates, while...
We come across scary news items in media about milk quality describing the various harmful chemicals being added to milk or the milk itself is made using chemicals. This creates terrible fear in minds of...
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...
We have all enjoyed a sweet jam on bread or jelly sprinkled with sugar, at least once in our life. If so, then we are no strangers to the gels in our food. Gels are found in a lot of our everyday food products. They are...
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...
In recent years, there has been a significant shift in consumer preferences towards sustainable and ethical practices, and this trend has reverberated throughout the food industry. Consumers are becoming increasingly...
Advancement of Food Science and Technology have gifted us with varied technological tools which has profound effect on our Diet and Health. Food Processing and Food Packaging have had tremendous effect on food...
Peanuts is an inexpensive food for common people. All types of people would eat them for a variety of reasons. Workers going home after late hours can buy at bus stop or train station or motorist driving home stuck in...
In the last few years there has been increasing concerns, particularly in the media, about the effects of wheat‐based foods on health, with the increasing adoption of wheat‐free or gluten‐free diets. This is leading to...
Wheat has several varieties and they differ in properties making them useful in some products and not others. Higher protein makes them useful in bread making while lower protein in biscuits and cakes. There are many...
Yogurt or dahi has been prepared in different parts globally be bacterial fermentation of milk, the most common being cow’s milk. Although earlier, yogurt was prepared by natural microbes present in the milk, using...
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