Food Bioscience
Antioxidants in Corn Line Could Aid Human IBD Protection, Therapy
State College, PA — Flavonoids from a specific line of corn act as anti-inflammatory agents in the guts of mice with an inflammatory-bowel-disease-like condition, according to a team of researchers...
Feeds of the Future
Göttingen, Germany — Worldwide there is a growing demand for animal products for human nutrition, despite vegan and vegetarian diets becoming more popular in Western countries. Changing diets necessitate...
How Bacteria Fertilize Soya
Zürich, Switzerland — Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow. In the case of a great many cultivated plants, farmers are obliged to spread this ammonium on their fields as...
Mats Made from Nanofibers Linked to Red Wine Chemical could Help Prevent Oxidation
College Station, TX — Spoiling foods, souring wine and worsening wounds have a common culprit — a process called oxidation. Although the ill effects of these chemical reactions can be curtailed...
New Dual-Action Coating Keeps Bacteria from Cross-Contaminating Fresh Produce
College Station, TX — Over the course of their journey from the open fields to the produce displays at grocery stores, fresh vegetables and fruits can sometimes become contaminated by microorganisms....
Coffee Changes Our Sense of Taste, Study Finds
Aarhus C, Denmark — Sweet food is even sweeter when you drink coffee. This is shown by the result of research from Aarhus University. The results have just been published in the scientific journal...
Scientists Invented New Way of Creating Meat Analogs
Kaliningrad, Russia — Worldwide focus meat analogs keeps increasing to start producing vegetable protein non-cholesterol products containing essential amino acids. Extrusion is the best way to texture...
Drinking Green Tea may Help with Food Allergies
Nagano, Japan — Research findings suggest gut microbes can effect allergic immune responses. Tasuku Ogita who has recently joined Shinshu University is an expert on teas and their effects on gut bacteria....
Better Plant Edits by Enhancing DNA Repair
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — A new genome editing system enhances the efficiency of an error-free DNA repair pathway, which could help improve agronomic traits in multiple crops. Genome editing involves...
Coffee Grounds Show Promise as Wood Substitute in Producing Cellulose Nanofibers
Yokohama, Japan — Researchers at Yokohama National University (YNU) meticulously examined cellulose nanofibers extracted from spent coffee grounds, identifying them as a viable new raw source. The...
Researchers Discover a Novel Chemistry to Protect Our Crops from Fungal Disease
Exeter, UK — Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security. Currently, we protect our crops against fungal disease by spraying them with anti-fungal chemistries,...
New Research Finds Infant Cereal Consumption is Associated with Improved Nutrient Intake
Arlington, VA — An investigation of infant feeding patterns found infants and toddlers consuming baby cereal, such as rice cereal, had higher intakes of key nutrients of concern, such as calcium, magnesium,...
Daily Avocado Consumption Improves Attention in Persons with Overweight, Obesity, Study Shows
Champaign, IL — A diet including daily avocado consumption improves the ability to focus attention in adults whose measurements of height and weight are categorized as overweight or obese, a new randomized...
Curcumin Is the Spice of Life When Delivered via Tiny Nanoparticles
Adelaide, Australia — For years, curry lovers have sworn by the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric, but its active compound, curcumin, has long frustrated scientists hoping to validate these...
Not Only What You Eat, But How You Eat, may Affect Your Microbiome
Tokyo, Japan — The importance of the microorganisms that live on and in our bodies has long been recognized, and their complex synergistic impact on our systemic health is elucidated. Now, researchers...
Discovering What Makes Durian Stink
Freising, Germany — Researchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) have confirmed the presence of the rare amino acid ethionine...
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Keeps Healthy Properties When Used for Cooking
Barcelona, Spain — Consuming extra virgin olive oil has proved to have protecting effects for the health, especially due to its antioxidant content. However, there are not many studies on whether it...
Celiac Disease Might Be Cured by Restoring Immune Tolerance to Gliadin
Helsinki, Finland — Celiac disease affects 0.3-2.4% of people in most countries world-wide, and approx. 2% in Finland. Celiac patients suffer from a variety of symptoms, typically intestinal complaints,...
Scientists Discover New Clue Behind Age-Related Diseases and Food Spoilage
Berkeley, CA — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing...
Chemists Learn How to Detect Phenols in Smoked Food Samples Using Vitamin B4
St Petersburg, Russia — Today, phenols are used to produce medicines, paints, and inexpensive furniture made of chipboard or MDF panels and also to process food. Some of them are capable of imparting...