For a long time, the drink industry has been troubled by a very serious obstacle in providing consumers with better products – the fact that their drinks degrade over time on account of chemical reactions that go on inside. A large part of these reactions is caused by riboflavin (vitamin B2), which catalyzes ph... |
3 August 2009
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Most likely, many of you don't have access to or cannot afford a glass of exquisite wine and have to abide by a bottle of average plonk that a true connoisseur would call sewage. Perfect wines take way too long to be obtained; the required conditions are not easy to reproduce, while the know-how of the process i... |
18 December 2008
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The device, developed by a group of French researchers, can chew up hard foodstuffs and reproduce all processes that take place inside the human mouth while eating, including the release of saliva and flavor. It could probably be used in the future as a robotic food tester, to enhance the quality of food and the way ... |
7 May 2008
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You cannot imagine life without popcorn. Watching a movie is directly connected to a huge bag of popcorn and beer, or cola soda. But besides the obesity and metabolic syndrome induced by such habits and caused by the large amounts of ingested calories, the effect can be more directly harmful: popcorn consume can caus... |
17 March 2008
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A good wine's quality is the result of a combination between a sandy soil and the hot and dry summer, besides the grape variety. The strain of yeast used in the fermentation process can also give particular features of a top quality wine, like smell, color and flavor. Now, Australian chemists have come with the ... |
17 August 2007
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Geneticists seem determined to get the animal that would be the perfect pet while delivering us milk, wool, skin, meat, honey, silk and the perfect crop that will deliver us eatable fruits, seeds, tubers, roots, leaves, flowers and so on. Till then, Israeli scientists have genetically engineered tomatoes to which the... |
5 July 2007
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A beer is a dynamic molecular world that does not stop evolving once it is in the bottle. Over 1,000 chemicals have been found in beer, giving it nearly 125 different flavors, referring to tastes, odors, and mouthfeel. About 40 flavors are common to the two broad types of beer, ales (pale ales, amber ales, and stouts... |
31 May 2007
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Acai, bacuri and cupuacu. These words may mean nothing to you, but in Brazil they sound more familiar, as they are three exotic fruits from the Amazonia. The nutritious acai is produced by a slender palm tree, acai palm or manaca (Euterpe oleracea), which thrives in the wet marshes and alluvial plains of the lower Am... |
21 March 2007
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