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...
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...
Milk is a very nutritious food not just for humans but also for spoilage organisms. When there is excess milk and not protected from these organisms, the milk spoils. Traditionally we have been trying to save the extra...
It is easy to imagine that protein-rich plant-based packed foods have existed in the market since the beginning of packaged food era, but the truth is, in spite of researchers and environmentalists iterating- how the...
Chickpeas have come a long way in recent years, from being a pantry staple in Indian households to becoming a trending plant-based protein in the food industry. If there was an election conducted to see which is the...
We have all been hearing a lot of buzz about organic foods and there has always been a question on its safety and its acceptance by the Indian Consumers. There are many misconceptions on its consumption in the people’s...
We hear a lot about enzymes. When we eat food, it is digested by enzymes. We sometimes take digestive enzymes when we eat too much. There are also meat tenderisers available which contain enzymes. Detergents started...
What’s in Soya? We have all heard of soya due to the increased attention it has been receiving in recent years among consumers, researchers, and the media. Talking more on its origin, Soya comes from the soya bean pods...
Have you ever wondered what the secret of your Grandma’s kitchen was? That one magical ingredient that not only played its wise role in the tadka of a food, but also in quick healing of the cuts and burns she had. Here...
When the heat approaches, kids get excited about eating ice creams. Even adults become kids and start looking at ever increasing flavours in ice creams. Consumption of ice cream in India keeps increasing with the...
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