Food sourcing and processing is not limited to Earth — if humans want to be able to settle in extraterrestrial environments they will need to be able to feed themselves, and research is already underway to make sure they can. [ + ]

Finely chopping and mincing ingredients can induce the production of PAMPs — bacterial molecules that may be contributing to increased risks of diseases such as coronary artery disease and Type 2 diabetes. Fresh food contains undetectable levels of PAMPs. [ + ]

Using high-pressure processing at low temperatures, the colour of unattractive dark meat can be lightened — potentially saving the red meat industry $100 million/year. [ + ]

The more difficult it is to access groceries, the less healthy your diet is likely to be — or at least the diet that you're telling the world about. [ + ]

At a time when one billion people globally experience hunger, as much as 50% of all food produced - up to two billion metric tonnes - is thrown away every year. In Australia alone, as much as 44 million tonnes of food is wasted annually. [ + ]

The limitless exchange of manufacturing, product and logistics data supports better decisions and complete transparency across the value chain. Greater resource efficiency depends largely on the equipment that supplies this data: intelligent sensors. [ + ]

A collaborative, industry-driven research project is endeavouring to overcome the barriers to wide-scale implentation of HPT technology in the food industry. [ + ]

The oral intake of people requiring pureed food has been found to improve if the food is moulded to a three-dimensional form that resembles the original food. [ + ]

The effectiveness of your sanitation system can easily be checked using readily available ATP sanitation monitoring systems. But, while these systems are the current 'gold standard' for monitoring hygiene program effectiveness in food and beverage production facilities, how can you be sure that your system is delivering reliable and accurate results?

One key step within an effective allergen management program is the rapid and efficient detection of allergen protein residues from visually clean surfaces. [ + ]

A discovery by Australian scientists suggests that leafy greens could provide the critical ingredient for good gut health. [ + ]

About 25,000 people in Europe die every year as a result of infections caused by antimicrobial resistance. As this resistance is a global problem, the numbers of deaths worldwide must be huge. Some of the most worrying increases in antimicrobial resistance are in microorganisms that are involved in foodborne disease — with Campylobacter and Salmonella standing at the front of the queue. [ + ]

Are oversized wine glasses merely a fad? [ + ]

When it comes to effective nutritional labels, the simpler they are, the better. [ + ]

In interesting new research, researchers have discovered a new property in Listeria that the food industry may be able to exploit to prevent the spread of the bacterium. [ + ]