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...
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...
Mangoes are considered king of fruits in India and summers bring in the season for mangoes. Not only the vendors are seen selling around mangoes, but also there are various delicacies of mango that starts getting...
What is Aseptic Processing? Aseptic Processing is sterilizing a product and filling it in and sealing the sterile container in a sterile environment so that microbes do not enter the product. When the product is...
Over 200 years ago, during the beginning of Napoleanic wars, the French government offered a reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could devise a cheap and effective method of preserving large quantities of food. As...
In the past, the only frozen food we enjoyed was ice cream. However, now we are seeing all kinds of frozen foods in the market. We not only see fish, meat and vegetables which are cut, trimmed, cleaned and frozen but we...
Food processing has a long history. When people were consuming fruits, vegetables, milk, meat and fish, they found that most of these foods can be stored for short times before they start spoiling. The foods start...
If you read our previous blog, you’ve learned about fortification and how it can help a large group of people. For those who haven’t read it, fortification is when nutrients are added to food staples to address...
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