The powerful and highly versatile atomic force microscope can be applied to decipher mouthfeel in flavor perception. Credit: Nature Food (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00958-3 A team led by Melanie ...

The difference between an American cookie and an English biscuit may seem like “tomayto tomahto” to the uninitiated, but the distinction is deeper than a name. Biscuits are meant for dunking in tea ...

Caren Alpert is a San Francisco-based photographer. She works as a food stylist, but she also shoots ordinary food objects in microscopic detail in a body of work she calls Terra Cibus. The ...

A growing food safety crisis has sparked nationwide concern as the FDA expands recalls of ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula and multiple pasta products linked to serious health risks. The agency ...

As food scares, such as the recent detection of dioxins in eggs from Germany, become more frequent, the public should be reassured that advances in science are helping reduce the risks from eating ...