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…
Can a Biohack Trick Kids Into Eating Healthier?
The battle for children’s taste buds is old news now, but I’ll recap it for you. Kids like sugar. Companies know this.…
Our Greatest Geological Discovery Is This Chocolate Boulder With Edible Candy Geodes Inside
If you thought Cadbury Creme Eggs were humanity’s greatest confectionery creation, Alex O’Brien Yeatts, a baking and…
Evaporated Cane Juice Is Just Sugar
You may have noticed a subtle change on your food ingredients list. Big, bad sugar is being replaced by the fresher,…
There's More to How We Taste Sweetness Than We Thought
Scientists assumed there is just a single type of taste receptor on the tongue responsible for our perception of…
Watch Cotton Candy Melt and Ooze Away
I laughed. Pretty hard, actually. Right when the fluffy cloud that is cotton candy started oozing sweet sugary alien…
El Niño Is Causing a Worldwide Sugar Shortage
El Niño is almost over, but the wreckage of things it knocked over in its wake continues—and one of those things is…
More Than Half of All Calories Eaten in America Now Come from Processed Food
Americans are used to breaking down their foods into different groups—and to plenty of different opinions about just…
What Happens When You Put Marshmallows in a Vacuum
Play with your food. That’s the moral of the story from Crazy Russian Hacker. He put marshmallows in one of those…
What Actually Happens When You Drink Too Much Soda?
Most reasonable people can generally agree on two things: the Earth is round and soda is bad for you. And though we…
Somebody’s Already Suing the Government Over New Dietary Guidelines Issued Just Hours Ago
This morning, the USDA and the Department of Health and Human services finally issued a new set of American dietary…
Video: How Candy Canes Are Made
A helluva lot of sugar and a helluva lot of machinery. That’s what it takes to make candy canes and it’s very close to…
How A Pharmacist Named F. C. Achard Doomed Us All
One present to the King of Prussia launched an industry that, if current experts are to be believed, will kill us all.…
Seeing sugar get swallowed by a cappuccino is so completely satisfying
This video is titled ‘Granular Satisfaction’ and there’s really no better way to explain it. A mound of sugar…
Kitchen Science: What's the Difference Between Brown and White Sugar?
We know that, scientifically speaking, brown sugar makes better song lyrics than white sugar, but what is the actual…
A Very Simple Property Of Sugar Can Save (Or Ruin) Your Food
Why does everything have sugar in it? It isn't just in there because it tastes good. If that were all sugar had to…
How The Sugar Industry Continues To Subvert Public Health Policies
A recent analysis of nearly 320 internal sugar industry documents from 1959 to 1971 shows how the industry sought to…
Making candy canes by hand is a mesmerizing process
One of my favorite things: seeing the process of how things are made from things I've never ever wondered how they get…
Sugary drinks are now the number one source of junk-food calories for kids, says a new report from Yale's Rudd Center…