May 10, 2019

Highlights from New Food Conference-food trend

Last March, at the New Food conference in Berlin, scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss the progress of clean meat and plant-based protein. Also present, were a number of newly formed food...

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March 10, 2019

Taking inspiration from ‘Trash bag’ cooking

Sous vide is a new vocabulary that has made it into households recently. Even Marge Simpson has used sous vide, to ‘cook thanksgiving turkey in a trash bag’! (For the Simpsons’s fans, it’s...

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March 8, 2019

From Japanese restaurant to Bioreactor Seaweed the versatile biomaterial

When I started my vegetarian diet some time ago due to personal reasons I initially found it hard to forget meat. I used to be a meat lover and eater, but my new vegetarian diet was not turning me...

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March 6, 2019

Marmite The bread that saves animals

Seaweeds to most people are just the thing we wrap around sushi, with a fishy taste and an almost paper-like mouthfeel. When talking about seaweeds most people would categories them as Asian taste....

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February 8, 2019

Soy bean – a superfood with endless potential

I remember there was one Chinese New Year when I was still in the UK, I invited my housemate to have a celebration with me at home. I selected some dishes from the local Chinese takeaway menu and...

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February 1, 2019

The 4th International conference on cultured meat highlights (4) – Serum free medium

The 4th international conference on cultured meat was held in Maastricht, in the Netherlands between 2-4 December. Scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs were there to discuss tissue engineering,...

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