food science

Scientists explored the physics of tossing fried rice in order to devise the “optimal regime” for producing the…

Synthetic meat products might come even closer to the texture of slaughtered meats with the help of what are…

When you go to a restaurant and order a hamburger, do you think to yourself, “Ah, yes, this meal will be so…

General Mills has issued a voluntary recall of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour after the company found E.…

New research has demonstrated that edible insects are high in antioxidants—and whether or not you buy into the…

Surely, someone out there has cooked up a shrimp fra diavolo and thought, “mamma mia, this would be much easier if…

Surveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their…

If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what…

The food might taste great, but fancy restaurants generally use tricks to prepare meals perfectly with surprisingly…

It’s hard to define “meat.” The word comes from the Old English “mete,” for food—but what is it today? Can flesh…

For one brave man, eating one of the hottest peppers in the world came with an unexpected side effect: Days of…

Can you eat yourself to death on one occasion of very excessive eating? We know that America’s eating problem is…

Love is infamously hard to define. But according to the man, it is absolutely not an ingredient.

Have you ever had gluten-free bread? It’s terrible. That’s because what makes bread delicious is gluten, a protein…

Odds are pretty good that you have consumed a food or beverage item in the past 24 hours containing some sort of…

There’s some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where an All-American jock takes a bite out of…

Coffee seems to be the most overstudied beverage; seemingly every day we’re bombarded with another study about it…

Researchers at MIT have developed deep-learning algorithm that can compile a list of ingredients and even recommend…

Not all hot peppers are created equal, and few are as unequal as the Dragon’s Breath chili—a new breed that may soon…

Food scientists are already looking to some dramatic-sounding options, from bugs to lab-grown meat to large fish…