Anyone hoping for a kinder, gentler post-pandemic world has no doubt been sorely disappointed by events of the past year. Inflation, political polarization, extreme weather disasters, and brutal ...

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Technology—“the great growling engine of change” as American futurist Alvin Toffler aptly described it—continues to trend strongly toward digitization across manufacturing sectors, especially in the ...

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In this column, the authors explore emerging research on how probiotics influence health beyond digestion—examining their potential roles in mental health, cardiovascular function, metabolism, immune ...

Today’s consumers are looking for customizable foods, beverages, and dietary solutions that will help them more aggressively meet their own unique nutrition and personal health goals. General health ...

Market researchers agree: Often the best way to understand something is with a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. So that’s what Food Technology did to arrive at our 2025 Consumer ...

Middle Eastern cuisine is a category as vast and broad as, well, the desert. Distinguished by intoxicatingly aromatic spices and herbs, generous vegetable inclusions, plant-based proteins such as ...

Consumers’ desire to feel good is steering the direction flavors are heading, but not in the “eat-drink-and-be-merry” way. Health—of the body, mind, spirit, and planet—rather than hedonism (well, okay ...

Robert Margolskee, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, doesn’t like coffee, dark chocolate, or bitter beer. Since he heads a preeminent scientific institution dedicated to ...