Tag: Food science
Curious Kids: Why does pizza taste so good?
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Why most food labels are wrong about calories
By Richard Wrangham, Harvard University and Rachel Carmody, Harvard University
Looks so official and definitive….
FDA
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer...
Warming, decanting and swirling: do they make wine taste better?
By Alex Russell, University of Sydney
Do you inspect the appearance of a wine before swirling it around the glass (holding the stem, naturally)? Inhale...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
