Dangers of artificial ripening of fruits and vegetables
Chemicals used to ripen fruits artificially are toxic and can also affect people's neurological system
Agriculture, food security and livestock in southern Africa most vulnerable to climate hazards: FAO
Cyclone Idai alone destroyed crops over 0.78 million hectares in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, highlighted the UN agency’s recent report &…
Feast on pattal
Eco-friendly and cost-effective plates are a good alternative to non-biodegradable plastic
Are Delhi schools serving unhealthy food?
Schools in Delhi are serving unhealthy food to the students. An inspection by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has found that …
Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?
Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative
Culture has helped millets survive
Throughout ages, many rituals have been associated with millet cultivation and women are to be thanked for this
Consumers cannot make informed decision without GM labelling
21 of the 65 processed foods tested had genetically modified ingredients; most of these products do not mention anything about GM on their labels.
An app to measure nutrition content of Indian food
Nutrify India Now allows search in 17 languages and six food groups. Users can also search foods by nutrients in the National Institute of …
A fruit to treat diabetes
Elandha vada is a traditional nutritional snack that is fast disappearing from our food basket
Quinoa production rises by 72% in more than a decade
From 2000 to 2014, quinoa production increased by 72% in Peru, Bolivia and Eucador, the world's biggest quinoa producers, says a new report
Gender gaps in food: 150 million more women went hungry than men in 2021
Over 800 million went hungry last year; Gender equality and food security directly related, says report
Russia, Ukraine reach landmark deal to resume Kyiv’s grain exports from Black Sea ports
The deal opens a path for significant volumes of commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea namely Odesa, …
United Nations Food Systems Summit: Need to transform food systems, say experts
More than 90 heads of states and governments submitted their national strategies, commitments to strengthening food systems at the Summit &…
Not so wild: Sickle senna is widely available, nutritious but not much known
Sickle senna, a widely available but little-known herb, is ready to take on the pharma industry
10.9 million people died due to poor diets in 2017: Report
Global Burden of Disease study highlights how low consumption of healthy food is better than more consumption of unhealthy foods
Food labelling: Why you are not aware of what you eat
A 3-part series which reveals that not only does India not have a clear labelling system to warn consumers about harmful levels of fat, sugar and …
The science behind the art of cooking
Cooking is an art, most would say. However, at its root, cooking is a form of chemical engineering, writes Krish Ashok in his recent book, Masala …
Nanotechnology can make plant-based food preservatives more effective
The formulation can arrest the growth of microbes at lower concentration’ It can also restrict toxin production by preventing the microbe …
Researchers find new carbohydrate in barley
Research in Australian varsity shows the polysaccharide occurs due to biosynthesis
Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem
If farmers earned better returns, with cheaper input costs, then production could be a multiple of the current levels
World is not doing enough to end hunger by 2030: UN
Food inflation on unprecedented rise triggered by COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war
Food crisis: Food-insecure population doubled in 2 years, says UN Secretary-General
Agencies call upon countries to increase food production and not to stop export as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on
One Nation One Ration Card: Good intention but implementation may be difficult
The nature, price and quantity of items supplied through the public distribution system varies from state to state
What Gandhi teaches the millennials on food and fitness
The cornerstone of Mahatma Gandhi’s attitude towards food was simplicity; food for him was energy and medicine
Food fudge: A graphical guide on attempts to dilute nutritional thresholds
A working group of FSSAI prepared thresholds for fat, sugar and salt this year. Here is what is wrong with them