Analyzing isotopes for nitrate in sake for combating beverage fraud in Japan

Researchers analyze oxygen and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in nitrate to authenticate the source of sake

19-Apr-2024 - The demand for sake—a Japanese alcoholic drink—has increased globally. However, the rise in the popularity of sake has thepotential forrelated beverage fraud. To address this issue, researchers from Japan identified a novel method to authenticate the source of and differentiate between ...

Did you know that parents should be careful with rice cakes?

19-Apr-2024 - Rice naturally contains inorganic arsenic, which can cause cancer in large quantities. We cannot completely avoid arsenic, as it occurs naturally in the soil and is absorbed by plants. The European Union therefore applies maximum levels for inorganic arsenic in rice, rice cookies, rice cakes, ...

Opening a window to the food industry’s future: the world’s first factory growing food out of thin air launches

19-Apr-2024 - Factory 01, Solar Foods’ first commercial-scale production facility of Solein®, starts production in Vantaa, Finland. It marks the beginning of the commercialisation of the novel protein and showcases what the future of food production could look like. Solein® is the revolutionary protein grown ...

More sustainability on the chocolate shelf

nucao also wraps chocolate bars in paper with Koehler Paper

18-Apr-2024 - Together with chocolate manufacturer nucao, Koehler Paper, part of the Koehler Group, has taken another major step towards greater sustainability on the chocolate shelf. The new chocolate bars from the Leipzig-based company nucao are not only organic, vegan and fair, but also packaged 100% in ...

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 ...

Riesling wines: Human odorant receptor for characteristic petrol note identified for the first time

18-Apr-2024 - Climate change does not stop at grapevines. Too much sun means that the bouquet of German Riesling wines becomes dominated by a petrol note (some) customers do not appreciate. A research team from the Leibniz Institute forFoodSystems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now ...

Colorful and healthy: a new gem in the potato chip range

18-Apr-2024 - "Rote Emmalie", "Agria" and "Purple Rain": these potatoes are real insider tips for gourmets who value variety and regionality. Despite their lesser-known names, they are characterized by their unique taste. Dedicated farmers and food experts appreciate this and are committed to preserving this ...

Pork labelling schemes ‘not helpful’ in making informed buying choices, say researchers

18-Apr-2024 - Researchers have evaluated different types of pig farming – including woodland, organic, free range, RSPCA assured, and Red Tractor certified, to assess each systems’ impact across four areas: land use (representing biodiversity loss), greenhouse gas emissions, antibiotics use and animal welfare. ...

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 ...