If you are a food enthusiast or a culinary lover, you might surely have come across this buzz in the taste spectrum called the Umami flavor. You might also have heard people referring to some food taste as savory. But what exactly are these two tastes aside from the usual sweet, salty, bitter, and sour …
Every athlete is looking for a way to get ahead of the competition and be the best in their field. That sort of competitiveness is what we all expect to see in the sports arena when we are rooting for our favorite athletes. With all this pressure on the athlete’s shoulders, it is easy for …
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Everyone talks about food safety and operational safety, but rarely would you hear people talk about the comfort or ergonomics of those tasked to produce this safe food. In fact, the issue of ergonomics is one area where no department wants to take full responsibility and the burden of action is always thrown around in …
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You have probably come across the phrase ‘catch weight’ in boxing or UFC sports circles and maybe didn’t give it much thought. I also didn’t give it much thought until the day I decided to do some in-depth research on the causes of production losses in a coffee factory I worked for. We were packing …
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In food science, we do not overlook the importance of edible seeds commonly known as “super seeds” in supplementing our daily dietary needs. Seed cycling continues to grow as an alternative medicine practice that is claimed to boost fertility and balance reproductive hormones. Before you brush this off as another food nutrition gimmick, you should …
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Pheew! At last, you have landed here. After filling the brain with all the scientific jargon on the web searching for the perfect meaning of organic food, you have now arrived in a platform where food complexities are dissected and simplified. It is no doubt that the organic food industry has been on an upward …
Food Science Jargon Aside; Here is a Really Simplified Meaning of Organic Food Read More »
Before you get dragged into the long, endless debate of whether GMO in food is a good scientific idea or not, this is where you should probably begin your journey. First, you need to know whether whatever you are consuming is a genetically modified food or not. There is a common misconception that you can …
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Water is life, and so is osmosis. This is why when clever humans decided to create things like reverse osmosis water, distilled water, and sparkling water, many mere mortals were left confused. We don’t even understand ourselves and our environment anymore! Quite literally because our bodies and our environment are coincidentally made up of about …
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“Aspire to inspire before you expire“ Before you ask me, I want to assure you that the above quote has absolutely nothing to do with this post; save for the fact that it coincidentally has the word expire in it. The word expire has everything to do with this post because it is a word …
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