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The Rise of the Pea: How an Unassuming Legume Emerged as a Frontrunner in the Race to Replace Meat and Dairy
No one denies peas are nutritious. Whether they’re delicious—that’s debatable. But arguments over taste no longer matter because peas, specifically yellow peas, are being formulated into so many products, they’re unavoidable, and often invisible. As a crop, the pea has risen and fallen in favor, but today everyone seems to agree that it checks the… The Rise of the Pea: How an Unassuming Legume Emerged as a Frontrunner in the Race to Replace Meat and Dairy
The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant
SAN FRANCISCO — At 9:30 on most weeknights, Ricky Lopez, the head chef and owner of Top Round Roast Beef in San Francisco, stacks up dozens of hot beef sandwiches and sides of curly fries to serve hungry diners. He also breads chicken cutlets for another of his restaurants, Red Ribbon Fried Chicken. He flips… The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant
The banana is one step closer to disappearing
A fungus that has wreaked havoc on banana plantations in the Eastern Hemisphere has, despite years of preventative efforts, arrived in the Americas. ICA, the Colombian agriculture and livestock authority, confirmed on Thursday that laboratory tests have positively identified the presence of so-called Panama disease Tropical Race 4 on banana farms in the Caribbean coastal… The banana is one step closer to disappearing
Can Big Food buy its way into innovation?
For the better part of a decade, Big Food has been in a scramble to restructure and reinvent itself amid a massive shift in consumer preferences that’s given rise to gluten-free, low-sugar, non-GMO and “clean” options. Looking to innovate and move faster to respond to ever-evolving trends, packaged-food makers have tried developing niche products to… Can Big Food buy its way into innovation?
Climate Changes Threatens World Food Supply
By Christopher Flavelle The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself. The report, prepared by more than 100 experts from 52 countries and released in summary form in… Climate Changes Threatens World Food Supply
Lucky’s @ Willowbrook Mill
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The Microbiome and Human Health
BY THE SCIENTIST STAFF Scientists have for decades recognized that the human body is more microbe than human. Large and diverse communities of bacteria, viruses, and other microscopic life inhabit not just our intestines, but our mouths, our skin, and our genitals. Even places once thought to be sterile, such as the eyes and lungs,… The Microbiome and Human Health
Self-service kiosk market to reach $30.8B
Dive Brief: The self-service kiosk market will reach an estimated $30.8 billion by 2024, according to new research from Tillster, which surveyed 2,000 QSR and fast casual customers with the help of SSI. Even if lines were equal length, 30% of customers said they would prefer to order from a kiosks. When line length has… Self-service kiosk market to reach $30.8B
Dr Gundry MD Functional Chocolate Bars
NEW DR. GUNDRY COCONUT CHOCOLATE BARS First commercial application of Callebaut’s Acticoa™ Polyphenol Rich Dark Chocolate enrobing Functional Coconut Core with Tocopherols, Coffee Fruit Extract & Larch Arabinogalactan, delivering 11 grams Dietary Fiber & 3 grams Net Carbs (Created by Innovitality Foods-Jimmy Schmidt) Coming Soon: Dr Gundry Coconut TURMERIC GINGER Bar Coconut & Larch… Dr Gundry MD Functional Chocolate Bars
The Launch of the Cosmic Crisp Apple coming this Fall!
On a hot morning in Bloom, a time period that those who don’t work with tree fruit might call early May, the subject of this profile was in the midst of a busy couple of weeks, bursting into fuzzy green being somewhere on the order of tens of millions of times over. The leap from… The Launch of the Cosmic Crisp Apple coming this Fall!
The Internet’s Secret Tropical Fruit Stand
One fateful summer many years ago, I took a bite of my first mangosteen. I was staying with my great-uncle’s family in Shanghai, and in lieu of the “American fruits” I ate at home (apples, grapes, watermelon), we snacked on tropical fruits like lychees, rambutans, and mangosteens. It looked like a cartoon rendering, with its… The Internet’s Secret Tropical Fruit Stand
The rise of the “ghost kitchen” could change the restaurant delivery game
In 1995’s The Net, Sandra Bullock ordered a pizza from Pizza.net, a fictional company with the now-dated tagline: “We deliver the best pizza in cyberspace.” At the time, it was still a wild idea, existing squarely in the realm of far-off science fiction. Third-party restaurant delivery services like Seamless, UberEats, Postmates, and Foodora were but… The rise of the “ghost kitchen” could change the restaurant delivery game