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'Seeing' the flavor of foods
15-04-2013
The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food, a scientist said. He described how people sometimes "see" flavors in foods and beverages before actually tasting them. "There have been ...
BASF to expand its plant biotechnology research into fungal resistance in corn
01-02-2013
BASF Plant Science is continuing to strengthen its focus on plant biotechnology solutions to achieve higher yield in plants. BASF will expand its fungal resistance research platform by adding corn as a target crop. At the same time, research activities in Nutritionally Enhanced Corn will be ...
Organic foods may be an unsuspected source of dietary arsenic
20-02-2012
As people seek healthier dietary regimens they often turn to things labeled "organic." Lurking in the background, however, is an ingredient that may be a hidden source of arsenic — an element known to be both toxic and potentially carcinogenic.Organic brown rice syrup has become a preferred ...
What's really in that luscious chocolate aroma?
31-08-2011
The mouth-watering aroma of roasted cocoa beans — key ingredient for chocolate — emerges from substances that individually smell like potato chips, cooked meat, peaches, raw beef fat, cooked cabbage, human sweat, earth, cucumber, honey and an improbable palate of other distinctly ...
New method for making human-based gelatin
15-07-2011
Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type desserts, marshmallows, candy and innumerable other products. ...
Controlling Flavors in Wine by Measuring Organic and Inorganic Acids
02-05-2011
Dionex announced a new method that enables a higher-resolution separation of the organic acids and inorganic anions found in wine. Using a Dionex ICS-5000 system with an OmniPac® PAX-100 Analytical column and IonPac® ATC-HC Trap column, this application demonstrates that ion chromatography ...
BMG LABTECH’s First Winner of a SPECTROstar Nano Could Change the Way We Look at Beer
01-04-2011
One of the first uses of the microscope by Louis Pasteur was to determine why beer and wine soured; he later hypothesized the Germ Theory of Disease. It’s in that same spirit that BMG LABTECH congratulates Dr. Gary Spedding for his proposal to use the new SPECTROstar Nano to modernize beer ...
AkzoNobel completes National Starch divestment
05-10-2010
AkzoNobel has finalized the $1.3bn sale of its National Starch business to Corn Products International. The transaction was announced on June 21, 2010. National Starch was taken over by AkzoNobel as part of its acquisition of ICI in 2008, but did not offer sufficient opportunity to create ...
Cognis Achieves Novel Foods Approval for Plant Sterols in Canada
21-05-2010
A recent ruling by Health Canada now allows Cognis’ natural plant sterol and sterol esters to be used in food products. In June 2009, when Cognis submitted a Novel Food application, phytosterols were only approved for use in dietary supplements. The Novel Food approval includes criteria for ...
A new way to use herbicides: To sterilize, not kill weeds
07-05-2010
Using herbicides to sterilize rather than to kill weedy grasses might be a more economical and environmentally sound weed control strategy, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and a cooperator. Rangeland ecologist Matt Rinella at the ARS Fort Keogh ...
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