Bouquet with a petrol note

24-Apr-2024 - A slight petrol aroma can certainly contribute to the complexity of a Riesling, but it should not be too dominant. A research team has now been able to clarify how people perceive this scent. Climate change does not stop at vines. Too much sun means that the bouquet of German Riesling wines is ...

Diversity with added value

Nature conservation and high-yield agriculture need not be a contradiction in terms, a global study shows.

16-Apr-2024 - Mixing livestock farming and arable farming, integrating flower strips and trees, water and soil protection and much more: diverse agriculture not only benefits nature, but also secures the food base for us humans and the economic yield for agricultural businesses. This is confirmed by a recent ...

Short-term deficiency, lifelong consequences

War experiences can shape eating habits over generations, with women in particular overcompensating for the deprivation they have suffered - with health consequences.

11-Apr-2024 - War children, especially women, overcompensate for the lack of meat during the Second World War in Europe for the rest of their lives. Not only do they eat meat more often every day and spend more money on food, they also suffer more frequently from secondary diseases such as obesity or cancer ...

Why does the grape taste like lychee?

Sweet and sour with a spicy note: this is the taste of the lychee. Its aroma is also found in grapes of the Muscaris grape variety. Researchers have now been able to discover why this is the case.

09-Apr-2024 - A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has succeeded for the first time in identifying the odorants responsible for the characteristic lychee note of Muscaris grapes. The new findings form the basis for further studies ...

Healthy ageing with micronutrients

19-Mar-2024 - The ageing process is associated with an altered requirement for essential micronutrients. In addition, changes in the bioavailability and postprandial variability of various nutrients are associated with ageing. However, it was previously unclear how quickly and to what extent micronutrients ...

Saving food - with Leibniz research

13-Jul-2023 - Every year, 710,000 tons of food are disposed of in Germany; only a third of this ends up at food banks, although the need for rescued food has rarely been so great. A new algorithm is intended to remedy the situation. 11.07.2023 - News - ZEW - Leibniz-Centre for European Economic Research - ...

11.2 million euros for obesity prevention

30-Jun-2023 - To prevent the further dramatic rise in obesity, a new European research project has set itself the goal of preventing the disease already in childhood. At the start of the five-year OBELISK project, which also involves researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke ...

Bean with a future

Field bean has great potential as a high-protein meat substitute. New genomic resources enable its cultivation to be optimized

13-Mar-2023 - A higher proportion of locally produced plant protein in the current meat-rich diet could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. However, plant protein production is hampered by the lack of a legume for cooler climates with agronomic value equivalent to that of ...

Global wheat shortage

16-Dec-2022 - The war in Ukraine has had a negative impact on wheat exports worldwide. A study shows: In the long term, global production must increase to compensate for missing exports. The war in Ukraine has reduced wheat exports worldwide. Yield fluctuations and shortfalls due to climate change are further ...

Gene shear protects barley

07-Nov-2022 - Viruses can cause major crop losses in cereals. With the help of the Cas9 gene shear, it has now been possible to protect winter barley from future threats. Genome editing holds great promise for improving crop breeding to meet the challenges of climate change, disease resistance and more ...