🍔 Food Tech
🍺 Leftovers from beer brewing can be used as biofuel
To brew beer, you need grain. But most of the grain that is being used in the brewing does not end up in the beer glass. Instead, it becomes a residual product. Every year, the world’s breweries produce almost 40 million tonnes of spent grain. Some go to animal...
🌱 Viral outbreaks cause plant-based foods to grow at a record rate
HPAI, the highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza, was first discovered in late 2019 in Poland and soon after it spread to large parts of Eastern Europe and Germany. During the second season’s flu epidemic, the same virus spread but now also in a variety of...
🍲 Ikea’s cookbook helps you turn food waste into feasts
Bacon of banana peel? Lasagne with overripe tomatoes and dry bread? Poor knights and whipped cream with a little coffee grounds? It tastes good, according to Ikea in Canada, which has made a whole cookbook with dishes that use ingredients we normally throw in the...
✂ Crispr will save our bananas
99 percent of all bananas we eat today are of a variety called Cavendish and now it risks being completely eradicated. The culprit in the drama is a fungal disease, TR4 or Panama disease; which kills banana plants and against which there are no pesticides.But now...
