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Producing ready-made sandwiches can generate twice as much carbon dioxide as simply making them at home, and one particular filling is egregiously bad

Chocoholics, are you sitting down? Researchers have just found a way process chocolate so it doesn’t need as much fat added into the recipe. By adding an electrical charge, the melted treat flows smoothly enough to be processed...

Chocoholics, are you sitting down? Researchers have just found a way process chocolate so it doesn’t need as much fat added into the recipe. By adding an electrical charge, the melted treat flows smoothly enough to be processed...

If there's one product that we can all agree is begging to be improved upon, it's ice cream. Sure, there have been forays into weird new flavours like bacon goat cheese and jalapeño pickle, but the basic recipe, which literally...

San Francisco-based startup Hampton Creek already has a couple of wins under its belt with its egg-free mayonnaise and dairy-free cookies. But its recent announcement that Dan Zigmond, formerly lead data scientist for Google...

We're not sure whether to be impressed or disturbed by a new food trend that has been growing in popularity among New York chefs - chickens that are fed scraps from the same four-star restaurants they are later going to be...

Scientists at the University of Alberta and University College Cork in Ireland have found a way to use bacteria to prevent mold from eating up your leftover food...

Scientists at the University of Alberta and University College Cork in Ireland have found a way to use bacteria to prevent mold from eating up your leftover food...

Yes the global community is facing a food crisis but biofuel production rather the rising demand for meat-based protein is to blame, and the solutions are relatively straightforwardCoverage of the US drought and the run-up...

A spike in prices caused by poor harvests and rising demand is an apt moment for the west to reassess the wisdom of biofuelsThe last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after...

Study says EU-grown rapeseed biodiesel falls under 35% marker, adding weight to calls to end food biofuelsThe growing row over biofuels is ready to flare up again with German researchers claiming to have found evidence that...

The Pyramid Farm is an incredible concept for the future of agriculture envisioned by professors Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier. The design is based on the growing belief (is it fact yet?) that vertical farming will...

Converting up to a fifth of UK wheat into biofuel will force prices even higher at a time of food shortages, warn criticsThe soaring price of wheat has raised questions about the UK's commitment to biofuels as it attempts...

The Pyramid Farm is an incredible concept for the future of agriculture envisioned by professors Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier. The design is based on the growing belief (is it fact yet?) that vertical farming will...