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Here's the Best Way to Make Fried Rice, According to Hungry Engineers

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

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

2/12/20 1:35PM

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10/21/19

Could Protein Spun Like Cotton Candy Make Lab-Grown Steak Possible?

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

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Impossible Burgers Aren’t Healthy, and That’s the Whole Point

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

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General Mills Recalls Gold Medal Flour Over E. Coli Concerns

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

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Some Edible Insects Beat Orange Juice and Olive Oil in Antioxidant Test

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

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Let's Make Tomatoes Spicy With Genetic Engineering, Scientists Proclaim

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

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What's the Most Dangerous Food of All Time?

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

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These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA

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…

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This Slick $100 Sous Vide Lets Anyone Cook Like a Modernist Chef for Cheap

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

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Missouri Officially Defines 'Meat' to Exclude Cultured and Plant-Based Foods

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

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World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER With Thunderclap Headaches

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

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Can You Eat So Much That You Die?

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

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The FDA Concludes 'Love,' Despite Being Extremely Toxic, Is Not an Ingredient

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

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Scientists Gene-Edited Gluten to Make Wheat for People With Celiac Disease

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

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La Croix's Natural Flavors Were Not a Mystery

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

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Will Your Next Taco Contain This Secret Ingredient?

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

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Coffee Could Be Changing Our Perception of Taste

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

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

8/24/17 6:00PM

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Ingenious AI Converts Images of Food Into a List of Ingredients

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

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'World’s Hottest Pepper' Will Have You Breathing Fire, But It Won’t Kill You

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

Jake Buehler

5/19/17 3:40PM

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Here's What Our Food Might Look Like in a Climate Change-Induced Dystopia

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

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

4/18/17 8:45AM

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Here's the Best Way to Make Fried Rice, According to Hungry Engineers

Could Protein Spun Like Cotton Candy Make Lab-Grown Steak Possible?

Impossible Burgers Aren’t Healthy, and That’s the Whole Point

General Mills Recalls Gold Medal Flour Over E. Coli Concerns

Some Edible Insects Beat Orange Juice and Olive Oil in Antioxidant Test

Let's Make Tomatoes Spicy With Genetic Engineering, Scientists Proclaim

What's the Most Dangerous Food of All Time?

These Men Ate Poison So You Could Have the FDA

This Slick $100 Sous Vide Lets Anyone Cook Like a Modernist Chef for Cheap

Missouri Officially Defines 'Meat' to Exclude Cultured and Plant-Based Foods

World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER With Thunderclap Headaches

Can You Eat So Much That You Die?

The FDA Concludes 'Love,' Despite Being Extremely Toxic, Is Not an Ingredient

Scientists Gene-Edited Gluten to Make Wheat for People With Celiac Disease

La Croix's Natural Flavors Were Not a Mystery

Will Your Next Taco Contain This Secret Ingredient?

Coffee Could Be Changing Our Perception of Taste

Ingenious AI Converts Images of Food Into a List of Ingredients

'World’s Hottest Pepper' Will Have You Breathing Fire, But It Won’t Kill You

Here's What Our Food Might Look Like in a Climate Change-Induced Dystopia