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...
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...
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...
Over the years, awareness about nutrients in foods has increased substantially among people especially their impact on health. This became even more intense during recent years when the pandemic affected daily life of...
Maltodextrin is found in nearly every food from infant formula to coffee whiteners. It is usually prepared from corn starch but other starches from potatoes, oats, tapioca, wheat, and rice etc. may also be used. The...
Indians are fond of street foods. There is a variety of street foods across the country. Literally, no one could resist himself or herself looking at a street food. Every state, every city, every corner of the lane in...
When it comes to health making meals from fresh ingredients is the ideal option. But, in this fast-moving world, we do not have that much time. So, we often go for processed foods and ingredients that are easy to make...
Milk is considered a complete food as it contains proteins of high biological values, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals required for good health. Milk has been part of our diet for years. Your mom would...
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian variety). As a cereal grain it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world’s human population, especially in Asia. A cereal is any...
Proteins are essential nutrients for all animals including humans for the growth and maintenance of body. Proteins are found in all cells of our body. It is the major structural components including muscle, bones...
Ice creams have always been a go to treat for many people may it be children or elderly people. We have always been indulging in ice creams especially in summers but the real lovers of ice cream would enjoy it even in...
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