E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can

18-Apr-2024 - While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the “e-tongue” still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated wine in a recent study. In an experiment at Washington State University, the e-tongue identified signs of ...

Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change

Study charts family history of Arabica, world’s most popular coffee species, through Earth’s heating and cooling periods over last millennia

17-Apr-2024 - he key to growingcoffeeplants that can better resist climate change in the decades to come may lie in the ancient past. Researchers co-led by the University at Buffalo have created what they say is the highest quality reference genome to date of the world’s most popularcoffeespecies, Arabica, ...

Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains

Rats that were fed a diet chock-full of fat and sugar in their adolescence suffered memory impairment, USC researchers found

17-Apr-2024 - A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junkfood-filled diet in teens may disrupt their brains’ memory ability for a long time. “What we see not just in this paper, but in some of our other recent work, is that if these rats grew up on ...

Size of salty snack influences eating behavior that determines amount consumed

Study suggests pretzel size affects intake by governing how quickly a person eats and how big their bites are

12-Apr-2024 - The size of an individual snack piece not only influences how fast a person eats it, but also how much of it they eat, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. With nearly a quarter of daily calorie intake in the United Statescoming from snacks, these findings may have ...

Unlocking alkalinity stress tolerance in citrus

Insights from Ziyang xiangcheng rootstock

12-Apr-2024 - Alkalinity stress significantly hinders plant growth, particularly affecting citrus, a vital crop worldwide. Ziyang xiangcheng (Citrus junosSieb. ex Tanaka) (Cj), an alkalinity-tolerant citrus rootstock, prompts interest in understanding its resilience mechanisms.Research reveals that lateral ...

Optimizing apple production

The interplay of crop load, rootstock, and chemical thinning on 'fuji' apples

11-Apr-2024 - Apple (Malus × domestica) is globally valued for its taste andnutrition, yet achieving optimal quality is challenging due to the impact of factors like crop load and rootstock onfruitdevelopment. Current research focuses on the individual effects of these factors and the use of chemical ...

What four decades of canned salmon reveal about marine food webs

09-Apr-2024 - Alaskan waters are a critical fishery for salmon. Complex marinefoodwebs underlie and sustain this fishery, and scientists want to know how climate change is reshaping them. But finding samples from the past isn’t easy. “We have to really open our minds and get creative about what can act as an ...

Smart formulation in food technology

Harnessing infrared spectroscopy for consistent and predictable apple puree quality

08-Apr-2024 - Apple puree is a major market player, integral to various products, yet its quality varies with the diversity of apple cultivars and processing conditions. For fruit processors, the ever-increasing variability of raw fruits means that their empirical knowhow may not be sufficient to produce ...

Malted rice emerges as potential game-changer in beer brewing

Rice malt shows potential to play a bigger role in beer

05-Apr-2024 - Rice is showing potential to play a more prominent role in beer brewing, and it helps that Arkansas produces a lot of it. Arkansas grows about half of the rice in the United States, mostly long-grain. Meanwhile, climate change and international conflicts are leading to a shortage of the raw ...

Sweet success: researchers crack sugarcane’s complex genetic code

Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants

02-Apr-2024 - Modern hybrid sugarcane is one of the most harvested crops on the planet, used to make products including sugar, molasses, bioethanol, and bio-based materials. It also has one of the most complex genetic blueprints. Until now, sugarcane’s complicated genetics made it the last major crop without a ...