Feed Bites
Feeding your dog a raw food diet could be harmful and even life-threatening, according to vets
Raw food includes uncooked meat, bones, and certain vegetables. But raw food could be contaminated and lead to bacterial infections that compromise your dog's health. Feeding your dog raw food could also lead to your pup having nutritional deficiencies.
Why, as a consumer, we must know about food traceability?
Known as the "one-step-back and one-step forward principle"; it can be defined as the ability to track the movement of food through various stages of production, processing and distribution.
Ahmedabad: Early curfew takes 70% bite out of food orders
Most fine-dine restaurants, otherwise operating from 6 pm to 11 pm, are facing shrinking order volumes by at least 70%. Estimates of Food Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (FEA) in Ahmedabad suggest that at least 60,000 deliveries a day were recorded till February 2021. But now, the figures have once again taken a hit with the curfew timings preponed.
Now, detecting heavy metals in food, water becomes easy
A laboratory carries out tests for heavy metals in water and a variety of food products for compliance with the requirements laid down by the FSSAI under the Food Safety and Standards Act.
The Menu for Mars: Designing a Deep Space Food System
The Nutrition paper, authored by NASA scientists Douglas, Sara Zwart, and Scott Smith, highlights the general criteria for a potential Mars or other space exploration mission food system, including safety, stability, palatability, nutrition, resource minimisation, variety, reliability, usability and space-ready appliances.
Online food orders become the new normal again
More families are ordering food online now to enjoy hotel food at home, particularly on weekends. The orders are expected to increase during Holi as restaurants will only serve takeaways.
Odisha engineers push their luck with food ‘Thela’, find success
Parked near the Collectorate in Malkangiri town, lip-smacking dishes flying off their food truck which has found a way into people’s hearts and given Prittam Bebarta and Sumit Samal, both engineering graduates, a career choice. A plate of dum biryani costs Rs 100 and chicken tikka is priced at Rs 50 at the thela.
How much food does India waste every day?
Indian households wasted around 68.7 million tonnes of food in 2019. The Global Hunger Index, 2020 ranked India 94th out of 107 countries, calling the situation a ’serious hunger problem.’
