food science
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These Men Ate Poison So The US Could Have The FDA
If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the US in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it seemed. The level of vile, often toxic contamination in basic consumer products was almost unimaginable to modern folk raised under the auspices of the FDA.
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Scientists Gene-Edited Gluten To Make Wheat For People With Coeliac Disease
Have you ever had gluten-free bread? It’s terrible. That’s because what makes bread delicious is gluten, a protein found in wheat that helps to give bread the firm but light texture and structure that makes carbs so irresistible. Now, though, science may have a fix. Scientists have engineered new strains of wheat that produce forms…
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Ingenious AI Converts Images Of Food Into A List Of Ingredients
Researchers at MIT have developed deep-learning algorithm that can compile a list of ingredients and even recommend recipes after looking at photos of food. The artificially intelligent system still needs some fine tuning, but this tool could eventually help us learn to cook, count kilojoules, and track our eating habits.
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You Could Get Sick If You Follow Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbook Recipes
If your culinary philosophy includes the belief that no kitchen is complete without a bamboo matcha whisk or a box of gluten-free pancake mix, then Gwyneth Paltrow is probably the lifestyle guru for you. Along with promoting sex-dust smoothies and $US66 ($87) jade vagina eggs, Gwyn is of course an avid home cook with a…