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Stress and food intake: what's the deal with your meal.
Stress induces modification in both psychological and biological systems that have been associated with the onset of illness. Many of these changes ...
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Food security: the role of effective agrobiodiversity management.
Over the next 30 years, global agriculture will be faced with the daunting problem of feeding an additional 2-3 billion people with less water, less e...
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Trends, drivers and impact of high food commodity prices.
Price hikes are frequent in agricultural commodity prices, though a spike such as the 2007/2008 one had not been seen for 34 years. The causes are var...
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Using electronic tongues and noses to assess food.
Electronic noses and tongues are analytical instruments based on an array of partially selective chemical sensors and multivariate data processing too...
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Insects as food: an ecological, social and economical approach.
More than 1000 species of insects that are edible at a certain stage of their life cycle have been identified worldwide. The orders Coleoptera, Lepido...
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Increasing the vitamin E content of food by in-plant production.
Vitamin E is a group of eight, lipid-soluble molecules known as tocochromanols, featuring a conserved head group and an aliphatic side chain. They are...
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Food for endurance - the evidence, with a focus on glycaemic index.
We reviewed the effects of glycaemic index (GI) of carbohydrates, consumed before exercise, on metabolism and performance. A carbohydrate with a high ...
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Metabolic engineering of carotenoid levels for improvement of plants as food.
Carotenoids are ubiquitous isoprenoid pigments that are synthesized by archaea, bacteria, fungi, algae and higher plants: in these organisms, they hav...
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Therapeutic use of bacteriophages in animals and in foods to reduce contamination.
Bacteriophages are viruses that are able to infect and kill bacterial cells. This capability indicates that they may have the potential to become ne...
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The positive contribution of invertebrates to sustainable agriculture and food security.
This study focuses on three main groups of organisms: soil invertebrates, biological control agents (BCAs) and pollinators. These groups play key ro...
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