Olam Spices & Vegetable Ingredients (Olam SVI) has expanded its spices processing facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 85,300ft2 plant enhances cleaning and storage processes for black pepper as well as adds capabilities to ...
AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will host a series of meetings this February for fruit and vegetable growers on transplanting, advanced high tunnel tomato production, drip irrigation and water management, and ...
Tags: Flavors, Fruit and Vegetable Production, Northwest Iowa
For years now, communities have been taking advantage of public lots to built community gardens, allotments, and other community spaces where those without room to garden at home can have a place to do so. These initiatives have been ...
Tags: community, community gardens, community-owned solar gardens
A group of university students are enjoying a specially designed fruit smoothie a day to discover whether it can improve their appearance and make them feel healthier. Their efforts are part of a study to assess what effect a carotenoid ...
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...
Adults at risk for heart disease who eat a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil can lower their chances of developing diabetes, even without restricting calories or boosting exercise, new research suggests. In the study, Spanish ...
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...
Tags: Food Labels, Food
In 2013, Tajikistan is estimated to have produced 392,000 tons of cotton, about 3.6 percent lower than the target set for the year, reports new.tj. In 2013, cotton was cultivated on 191,333 hectares of land, which was 8,133 hectares or ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Textile
New findings show that many Americans are at risk for high blood pressure because of too much sodium in our diets - and the risk is especially high for children. The study was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Hospitals might be able to coax cafeteria customers to buy healthier food by adjusting item displays to have traffic light-style green, yellow and red labels based on their level of nutrition, new research suggests. "Our current results ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Labeling Food
Food and beverage company WhiteWave Foods has bought Earthbound Farm in a $600m all-cash deal. Earthbound Farm is an organic produce brand in North America. It produces and markets organic fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen fruits and ...
Tags: WhiteWave Foods, Organic Food
HRP-2 robots learn kitchen chores at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab. Google has recently been in the news for its buying spree of robotics companies. Many people are excited about this and believe that this will greatly ...
Tags: robot, robotics technology, household chores
Air Products, a US-based gases and chemicals provider, has unveiled a new method which uses liquid nitrogen to control the temperature of foods, while they are being processed. The procedure is claimed to enhance the quality of food ...
Tags: Air Products, Food Products
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities stayed mostly flat in the week ending Dec. 29 compared with the previous week, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce. Average wholesale prices of 18 kinds of ...
The 1998 Major League Baseball season will forever be remembered for "The Chase," first by Ken Griffey, Jr., and finally between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, to top Roger Maris's home-run record of 61. "The Chase" brought beer-drinking and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food