Nutrition & Wellness
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Taco Bell announces it will only serve 100% cage-free eggs
Taco Bell has become the latest company to announce it will only serve 100% cage-free eggs in its meals by December 2016. At the moment, more than 94% of egg-laying hens spend their lives in battery cages so small they cannot even spread their wings. Having space to move provides better lives for Read More...
For a sustainable lunch, here's how to grow edible insects at home
There are a lot of good reasons to start eating insects. First of all, they provide us with necessary nutrients: adult locusts, mealworms and grasshoppers have comparable levels of protein to raw beef. Secondly, insects release fewer greenhouse gases than traditional livestock. Did you know that Read More...
Food companies replace synthetic colors with plant-based colorings
Artificial colorings, widely used in packaged food, are increasingly being replaced by natural colorings. Spurred by a 2007 study in The Lancet linking synthetic colors with hyperactivity in children, food companies are learning to work with plant-based colors, derived from a variety of fruits Read More...
A wall that grows food: This company invented a system to change a wall into a farm
There's a saying in the Netherlands that you can eat "from the wall". This is because there is a fastfood chain where, after inserting some coins, you can get your snack right out of a box in the wall, 24/7. But "eating from the wall" could get a whole new impulse, a healthier one, with the idea to Read More...
Chef and brewer team up to show creative ways to make beer from food waste
Don't throw away bruised fruit. Instead, try to eat it, or even... drink it. Coming up soon is an online TV series that will show you that food waste can even be used to brew beer. Food and culture website First We Feast brought together TV Chef Mario Batali and brewer Sam Calagione, who will Read More...
Growing crops on with seawater on a floating greenhouse
The world of agriculture is shifting from its traditional methods of growing food to much more sustainable, efficient systems. London has a subterranean urban farm, Kyoto will soon have a hi-tech indoor “vegetable factory” and now two Italian architects have created a floating greenhouse called Read More...
5 easy ways to reduce food waste in your daily life
For many, the question is uttered nearly every evening, and the answer is easy. But for 795 million people in the world — those who don’t have a reliable meal to look forward to according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — the question is more Read More...
Six plant-based foods you should try today
The glorious thing about plant-based eating is that your grocery store or farmer’s market is full of an incredible array of foods, flavors, and textures that are just waiting to be discovered. Even a typical grocery store has a produce section that carries seasonal and ethnic foods that often Read More...
Research on Plant Microbes May Help with Global Food Security
A recent news article discusses the impact of plant/soil microbiome research on agriculture, specifically helping feed a projected 9 million people in 2050. Novozymes and other corporations are working with researchers and farmers to make microbial products that help promote and optimize plant Read More...
Vegan goes glam: The growth of veganism from hippie to glamorous
A few days ago a lifestyle article on New York Times caught our eye: titled “Vegans go Glam”, it focuses on the many ways in which veganism has come from a hippie-dippie heritage into a glamorous, gorgeous and healthful lifestyle. To which we all replied, of course! It’s no secret Read More...