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...
Eggs are very versatile ingredient. They have a lot of nutritional value and also they have technological function in food preparation. They are a universal ingredient because they have emulsifying, foaming, gelling...
Can one food be nutrient-dense, gluten-free, and at the same time, has the resilience to grow on poor quality soils and tolerate drought? It may sound too good to be true and feel like a hoax, but it is not. When you go...
Developments in processed foods have given rise to more convenience foods in the current market. Nearly a decade ago, Ready to Cook (RTC) convenience foods were introduced to the market considering the busy lifestyles...
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...
Savdhaan, hoshiyaar, Plant Proteins Padhaar rahe hain! If one had to describe how they feel about the food industry in 2020 in nutshell, this is how they would describe it. After all, plant proteins are the coolest band...
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...
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