Belo Horizonte provides a noteworthy example of how innovative, integrated food and nutrition security policies can assist communities
DTE recommends: What to eat, watch, do
Scientists unravel fungus responsible for Sheath Blight disease in rice
How do lethal PFA chemicals enter your body? (Hint: look in the kitchen)
The world needs to feed 9 bln by 2050 and digitisation can help
Food and Agriculture Organization report favours information and communication technologies to improve farmers' access to timely data
First World Food Safety Day to outline sustainable solutions
The United Nations has developed a guide to discuss why food safety is necessary and how it could be achieved
Orange cucumber from North East is storehouse of Vitamin A: Study
At a stage when it is eaten as salad, the carotenoid content in orange-fleshed varieties was 2-4 times greater than the normal variety
You will soon be able to buy India’s first high oleic groundnut varieties
The commercialised of these varieties and it is set to benefit all stakeholders, including small famers, food industry as well as the consumer.
Restaurants turn to indigenous foods for lucrative business
Serving local cuisines comes with major operational challenges too
Most baby food products in South Africa have high sugar content
Study sample included commercially available baby foods targeted at children under 12 months and sold in supermarkets and other major retailers in South Africa
Genetic secrets of peanut varieties unveiled
Scientists found that its sequence was comparable in size to that of the human genome
Messages matter: Are junk food ads creating a crisis for today’s children?
Advertisements featuring junk food and even cartoon characters endorsing unhealthy foods can lead to problems for children today
Worrying picture emerges about India’s SDG indicators on food and agriculture
Cultivable land in India, which is home to 18 per cent of the world’s population, is vulnerable to drought, floods and degradation
New global benchmark for famine declarations
The ‘Famine Likely’ classification will be applicable in locations with insufficient evidence, but where available information indicates that a Famine is likely to occur
Nanotechnology can make plant-based food preservatives more effective
The formulation can arrest the growth of microbes at lower concentration’ It can also restrict toxin production by preventing the microbe from utilising carbon source for its growth
Overeaters, Mediterranean diet is the answer to your problems
Despite containing similar proportions of fat, protein and carbohydrates, this diet could lower the risk of obesity, pre-diabetes, and hepatosteatosis than a western diet
Feast on pattal
Eco-friendly and cost-effective plates are a good alternative to non-biodegradable plastic
Scientists make meat with animal cells
This meat will be is nutritionally equivalent to conventional animal meat
Focus on climate change: Food majors to US government
Sustainable Food Policy Alliance pushes for carbon pricing system for industries
Lactalis to milk more in India. Why that may worry some
French dairy giant has been in the news for allegedly cheating farmers back home, for its secretive business model and for the quality of its products
New cholesterol study may lead you to ask: Pass the eggs, or pass on the eggs?
A recent study examined the association between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with cardiovascular disease and all causes of mortality
Indian olives: The most under-utilised fruit crop
Jalpai, the Indian olive, is an under-researched fruit which is used to make sweet and sour recipes
Food India: Six recipes to beat the heat
DTE brings you some recipes from our foodbook; they are soothing for the summers, high on nutrition, even medicinal. Here's wishing you a summer to discover food as medicine.
Dietary supplements don’t reduce risk of death due to heart disease, cancer: study
Vitamins and minerals obtained directly from food are better than artificial supplements, it says
FSSAI rules for organic farmers ‘pushing them out of business’
Farmer organisations, companies say concerns not addressed
