A Food Industry Reference Resource

A primer to Smart Packaging in the food industry

Smart packaging allows the industry to track and trace a product throughout its lifecycle and to analyze and control the environment inside or outside the package. Using Smart packaging technology. the entire supply chain from manufacturer to retailer to consumer - can obtain information on a products condition at any time. But [...]

2023-11-22T09:36:15-05:00December , 2021|

Ultra Processed Foods, Food Deserts and Chronic Diseases

A better diet leads to better health and a better diet is one that includes fresh foods that are minimally processed and eaten in modest quantities. On this, all nutritionists and responsible experts agree. So why is it that the standard American diet fails so miserably to deliver a better diet and [...]

2023-11-22T09:27:26-05:00October , 2021|

Why bacon doesn’t have a warning label

In 2015, The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) released findings telling consumers that red meats are "probable carcinogens" and that processed meats are "carcinogenic to humans". The processed meats finding was alarming and according the W.H.O. was "based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer". Generally [...]

2021-07-02T13:29:51-04:00June , 2021|

Is cultured chicken meat about to go mainstream?

In December of 2020, the Singapore Food Agency approved an application to manufacture and sell cell-cultured chicken by Eat Just, a US based startup known for developing plant-based egg substitutes. The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Just’s GOOD Meat brand and will go on sale to foodservice before it [...]

2021-06-22T15:49:05-04:00December , 2019|

The cottage food industry explained

Food processing is a large complex sector of the global food industry that is dominated by large multi-national corporations. And all food companies in the United States, whether a small company or a large company, must adhere to a dizzying variety of food safety and labeling laws at both the Federal and [...]

2019-12-04T10:19:57-05:00November , 2019|

The 4 categories of Processed Foods

In some ways "processed food" gets a bad rap. The truth is that a majority of foods that we eat are in fact processed. Spinach that is cleaned and bagged, yogurt made at home and even a boiled egg all qualify as processed foods because strictly speaking once a food is altered [...]

2022-01-31T12:17:53-05:00November , 2018|
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