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rss16-Apr-2021
It was 1906 when Alfred Henry Lewis, an American journalist and lawyer stated, “there are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then societies have changed considerably, with over 56% of the global population living in urban areas, compared with less than 15% in 1900. As a result, ...
16-Apr-2021
Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. They are both caused by an overabundance of food, but strategies to reduce one can inadvertently increase the other. A broader perspective can help identify ways to limit food waste while also promoting healthy nutrition, two ...
On the trail of the universal apple microbiome
16-Apr-2021
The extent to which the composition of the microbiome of apples and oil pumpkins depends on the geography of the location and what insights can be derived from this for breeding, health and shelf life of the fruits is shown in two recent publications by researchers at TU Graz. The microbiome is ...
Lessons from COVID crisis for reducing inequities and enhancing resilience of food systems
15-Apr-2021
The severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food systems and upended livelihoods. Yet pandemic responses have demonstrated the power of well-crafted policies to blunt the impact of major shocks while laying the groundwork for stronger, more resilient food ...
15-Apr-2021
Many consumers are willing to pay for improved environmental quality and thus non-market values of impacts of food production on e.g. water quality, C sequestration, biodiversity, pollution, erosion or GHG emissions may even be comparable to the market value of agricultural production. ...
15-Apr-2021
Costing anywhere from 15 to 70 dollars per mushroom depending on the quality, matsutake mushrooms are some of the most valuable edible fungi in the world. Revered for their delicate scent, matsutake mushrooms are cooked in rice or soups as an Autumn celebration delicacy in Japan. However, there ...
14-Apr-2021
Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. This study presents some of the first holistic evidence that adding legumes to traditional crop rotations ...
This spring, Beyond Meat products will be available in thousands of new retail locations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and more
14-Apr-2021
Beyond Meat, Inc., a leader in plant-based meat, today announced significant product distribution expansion within thousands of European retail locations this spring. As Beyond Meat has grown its retail presence in the region, the European plant-based foods market has seen aggressive growth with ...
13-Apr-2021
Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations--mutations--that affect how genes act and function. Added together, millions of small genetic variations make it hard to predict how a particular mutation will ...
A sulfosugar from green vegetables promotes the growth of important gut bacteria
13-Apr-2021
An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna and David Schleheck from the University of Konstanz has uncovered new metabolic capabilities of gut bacteria. For the first time, the researchers have analyzed how microbes in the gut process ...