In the last few years, the food processing industry has seen a major change in its operations. Their factory and warehouse employees are now equipped with exoskeletons. This adoption makes a lot of sense as they spend most of the day working on their feet, lifting and moving heavy objects or performing repetitive, overhead tasks. …
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Second-generation biofuels are biofuels produced from non-food-based feedstocks. These feedstocks include non-edible oils (or fats), lignocellulosic biomass and waste, and sugar and starch crop residues. The second-generation advanced liquid biofuels include bioethanol, biojet, biobutanol, bio-oil, dimethyl-ether, biomethanol, and biodiesel. Some of these advanced biofuels are characterized either by their ability to be used in existing …
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Have you ever been on a diet? Ever bounced from Atkins diet to Ketogenic diet to Paleo diet and many other combos, only to see yourself right back to where you started? If you knew that you were going to develop diabetes or cancer in a few years from now, what food could you take …
Imagine entering your kitchen and printing your favourite pizza or cake rather than cooking? One small printer to replace all the utensils, oven, while delivering the same taste. While the concept of 3D printed food is still in its infancy, there are indeed start-ups out there working on realising printed food as a legitimate business …
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Food manufacturing is a very complex & labour intensive process. Human intervention is required at each stage of food processing – from the milling of grains or the deboning of meat to the storage and packaging of processed food. However, the recent pandemic and rise in food-borne diseases such as stomach flu and cholera have …
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Bitcoin has been around for a while now, and so have its proponents. Blockchain the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is poised to revolutionize the finance industry and has the potential to transform the world economy. And of the potential new avenues for blockchain, perhaps none is more promising than the food supply chain. …
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The food industry is a very large and complex network of farmers, chefs, truck drivers, and more recently AI. It’s not an outrageous idea, computer advancements are improving the lives of workers across many different fields of work. When technology advances it usually creates opportunities and change that needs to be looked at. In this …
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Allergies are increasingly common pathologies in human society. In the past, it was believed that they were due to an exaggerated reaction of the immune system to a specific antigen or a hypersensitive reaction. Today we know that it is actually the harmlessness of the external agent that leads to pathogenesis, paradoxically. In fact, there …
Since ancient times, humans have wanted to satisfy the demand for food, not only to please individual hunger like other animals but in order to maintain the stability of the communities. The first sedentary farmers appeared 12,000 years ago in the fertile crescent. Cattle raising and agriculture were the first strategies to ensure prosperity. Strange …
Global famine is a consequence of the misallocation of resources, but it also stems from exponential human growth. Every day more and more people suffer from malnutrition. While it is true that most of them live in underdeveloped or developing regions, these situations also exist in first-world countries. Moreover, the situation is expected to worsen …
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