Feed Bites
Insect infestation can happen to dried food at many points in the distribution chain
“It could be anywhere from the harvest field to the manufacturing plant, storage area, the retail store or even at the consumer’s home,” said Tom Campbell, supervisor of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Cape Breton. Primarily it’s dried foods that are most susceptible to insect infestation like flour, grains, pasta and cereals.
Climate change is feeding our plants junk food
Environmental carbon dioxide lets plants photosynthesise more and grow faster. But the excess carbon dioxide acts like plant junk food. It makes plants grow faster but stops them from absorbing minerals from the soil.
'Brainbows' Are Your New Power Food, According to a Psychiatrist
Keep it simple and look for "brainbows" in your fridge—colourful vegetables which contain phytonutrients, a fancy term for naturally-derived chemicals in plants.
The benefits of cooling ingredients for pet food
There are both quality and regulatory reasons for keeping ingredients cool, including chilling waste and co-products as quickly as possible after processing and maintaining cold chain conditions during storage and transport.
This mother quit her corporate job to find healthy snacks for her daughter
Denise Woodard's daughter Vivienne was diagnosed with severe food allergies as an infant, including allergies to most tree nuts, corn, bananas and eggs. So Woodard left her successful career at Coca-Cola and took her sales and marketing expertise and passion for making healthy and delicious snacks for her daughter to start Partake.
Upcycling food waste into a biobased plastic alternative
US-based MiTerro has developed and utilises two-patent pending technologies to create plastic-alternative biomaterials that are made from agricultural waste.
These smart freezer sensors help Domino's, 7-Eleven combat food waste
The company has created a smart temperature and humidity sensor that’s mounted inside freezers to record real-time data and send alerts if temperatures rise above a certain threshold.
A woman ate just 7 foods for 1 month. It was a lesson in food waste and gratitude
For one month, Jen Hatmaker ate nothing but chicken, eggs, whole-wheat bread, sweet potatoes, spinach, avocados and apples. No olive oil. No coffee. No grab-and-go packaged snacks. The key takeaway was ‘Simple & Free’ from her experiment.
