2023 November

Tesla owners aren't impressed with the company's $150 CyberBeer and are finding the lids of the bottles are rusted.

In Deutschland reduzieren immer mehr Menschen ihren Fleischkonsum. Pflanzenbasierte Lebensmittel werden hingegen immer beliebter.

The Magnum, Wall’s, and Ben & Jerry’s owner is reformulating its ice creams to withstand warmer temperatures, and wants others to do the same.

New genetic data show that humans and sharks share bitter taste receptors, even though their evolutionary pathways separated nearly 500 million years ago / Published in ‘PNAS’

Chiral molecules can have dramatically different functional properties while sharing identical chemical formulae and almost identical structures. The molecular structure of two types of a chiral molecule—so-called ...

It’s taken more than a decade, but the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finally released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map that spans the nation and the territory of Puerto Rico in such detail that gardeners can now zoom right into their local areas.

Environmental and consumer rights organisations are taking legal action against Nestlé, Danone, and The Coca-Cola Company, over recyclable claims made about their plastic bottles. They have raised an external alert to both the European Commission and the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, alleging the FMCGs' ‘100% recyclable’ or ‘100% recycled’ claims for plastic bottles are misleading.

Did you know? It was actually the Baerselman Bros. company that laid the groundwork for the modern frozen food industry back in the late 1890s.

Sentir, humer, goûter : c’est détecter des milliers de composés moléculaires qui parviennent jusque dans notre cerveau. L’odorat et le goût sont deux sens étroitement liés. En effet, l’odeur peut avoir…

In recent years, awareness of the influence of different modalities on taste perception has grown. Although previous research in crossmodal taste perception has...

Parler du vin est une activité sociale. Comment fait-on pour passer de la perception au discours ? Et quel rôle joue le langage dans la perception elle-même ?

Dans ce nouveau livre, Bernard Sablonnière nous fait voyager à travers une myriade de stimulations sensorielles qui perturbent et modifient nos comportements.

Food sensory analysis uses human senses to measure food characteristics such as taste, texture, smell, and appearance, which helps the food industry understand consumer demands and develop new and improved products.

A core function of the olfactory system is to determine an odor’s valence. The central processing of odor valence is initiated in the olfactory bulb, but the neural mechanisms by which this important information is communicated to, and from, the olfactory cortex (piriform cortex) in humans are not known. To assess communication between the two nodes, we simultaneously measured odor-dependent neural activity in the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex from human participants while obtaining trial-by-trial valence ratings. We determined when valence information was communicated, what kind of information was transferred, and how the information was transferred (i.e., in which frequency band). Support vector machine learning on the coherence spectrum and frequency-resolved Granger causality were used to identify valence-dependent differences in functional and effective connectivity between the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex. We found that the olfactory bulb communicates odor valence to the piriform cortex in the gamma band shortly after odor onset, while the piriform cortex subsequently feeds valence-related information back to the olfactory bulb in the beta band. Decoding accuracy was better for negative than positive valence, suggesting negative valence superiority. Critically, we replicated these findings in an independent dataset using other odors across a larger perceived valence range. Combined, these results demonstrate that the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex communicate levels of odor pleasantness across multiple frequencies, at specific time-points and in a direction-dependent pattern in accordance with the two-stage model of odor processing. It also provides further evidence that odor valence should be viewed as two perceptual dimensions and not one continuous. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

The advent of artificial technologies like electronic noses, electronic eyes, and electronic tongues has fundamentally reshaped our approach to evaluating food samples, as underscored by their ability to capture intricate sensory attributes. The symbiotic relationship between artificial instruments and machine learning underscores their potential to reshape the food industry, ensuring that the food we relish is not only delectable but also safe and of the highest quality.

Sniffing in stereo.

There's more to the cell than its 'powerhouse' the mitochrondrion. There are competing theories about the birth of other organelles.

Making your own freshly pressed juice at home can sometimes lead to boring combinations. Here's how to give your juice a healthy, tastebud-tingling glow-up.

Indian whisky takes a rum-like molasses base spirit and combines it with grain-based whisky, resulting in a popular liquor with an expansive variety of flavors.

Are you a sucker, cruncher or chewer … maybe even a smoosher? Think about it: how do you taste your food?

Pared-down packaging designs send a subtle yet powerful message of purity to shoppers – and they’re willing to fork over more cash for these goods, regardless of the actual number of additives.

Peppermint is a beloved ingredient in November and December. But should it be?

Lipophilic compounds, such as flavors, fat-soluble vitamins, and hydrophobic nutrients possess vital properties including antioxidant effects, functio…

You might think defining a pickle is easy, but, as it turns out, there are quite a few nuances involved - mainly when it comes to the ingredients and process.

We all know and love the national food of the month of July, aka ice cream. But which country invented it and who made the treat that we enjoy today?

Royal Herb: Let's discuss basil in all its fragrant diversity. Basil is another highly aromatic plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family, or Labiatae as they were called before. This family includes many plants that are used in perfumery: patchouli, lavender, mint, shiso, thyme, savory, sage, rosemary, oregano, marjoram, hyssop, and others. The biological genus Basil (Latin: Ocimum) includes about seventy species. The Latin name of the ge

In der EU sind unterschiedliche Insekten als Lebensmittel zugelassen. Nun wurde untersucht, wie hoch die Akzeptanz der Lebensmitteln ist.

Lemon water has become a trendy morning beverage, but is it really good for the body? Read to find out.

Frying water sounds impossible, but a culinary chef has successfully done it. Continue reading to learn how he did it.

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates similarly to wild yeast strains. A global consortium is working to develop the first synthetic eukaryote genome from scratch. The team has now synthesized and debugged all sixteen yeast chromosomes.