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CBC News
Scientists with Agriculture Canada on P.E.I. are putting a new $1.3 million piece of equipment to good use, and they hope other researchers will start to take advantage of their high-tech spectrometer. The spectrometer uses nuclear magnetic resonance to take pictures of molecules — similar technology to an MRI. It's the second spectrometer for the lab, but the first one — now 10 years old — can only look at liquids.
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Global News
It's an industry that professionals say injects more than $1 billion into Alberta's economy each year. "The potato industry in this province is not just in southern Alberta, but province-wide," said Terence Hochstein, executive director with the Potato Growers of Alberta. "We have about 55,000 acres of production within this province, making us one of the largest growing areas in Canada."
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City News
Canadian scientists are at the heart of a breakthrough in wheat genetics that could revolutionize how the world's most important crop can continue to feed a growing global population. Andrew Sharpe and Curtis Pozniak of the University of Saskatchewan are key co-authors of a paper published recently in the journal Science that lays out the first complete and accurate map of the large and complex genome of wheat used for bread.
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The Fashion Spot
We are in an era where a lot of unusual things come about, especially on the food scene. Blame it on social media where oddball food trends bubble up in an effort to garner likes and comments. Whether its gorgeous-looking acai bowls or gimmicky activated charcoal croissants, some Insta-bait foods actually deliver on their promise to improve your life — or at least your next meal.
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Four years ago, SodaStream International Ltd.'s shares languished at a record low, short sellers circled and big competitors prepared to storm the Israeli company's market of selling at-home soft-drink machines. Fast forward to today, and SodaStream is selling out to PepsiCo Inc. for $3.2 billion after a remarkable turnaround engineered by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Birnbaum.
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Lab Manager Magazine
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) scientists have discovered a plant-based food preservative that is more effective than artificial preservatives. The organic preservative comprises a naturally-occurring substance known as "flavonoids," a diverse group of phytonutrients found in almost all fruits and vegetables. The flavonoids created by NTU scientists have strong anti-microbial and anti-oxidant properties.
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CBC News
If everyone in the world followed the USDA-recommended diet, there wouldn't be enough agricultural land to grow all the food, a new study has found. The researchers from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo said an additional gigahectare of fertile land — roughly the size of Canada — would be required to feed everyone.
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Greenhouse Canada
This month, the Government of Canada announced an investment of over $2 million in genomics research for disease resistance in greenhouse vegetables. Working with Drs. David Guttman, Darrell Desveaux and Adam Mott from the University of Toronto, the project aims to further the development of broad-range resistance genes, a family of genes that allows plants to resist multiple bacteria and fungi, protecting greenhouse crops against multiple pathogens.
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CTV News
The once meat-dominated world of fast-food and casual restaurants is starting to cater to the one-in-10 Canadian diners who identify as vegetarian or vegan by adding an increasing array of alternative proteins to their menus. Restaurants are the latest link of the food chain taking notice that more consumers are turning to alternative protein because of high meat prices, as well as environmental, humanitarian and health reasons.
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Globe and Mail
Regular, unadorned milk remains a staple, and that's part of a problem. "Don't mess with my milk, don’t change it," said Marco De Palma, lamenting the typical consumer perception in Canada. Canadians tend to see milk as fresh, unchanged, sacrosanct, but then they look for other beverages when they get bored with it.
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Green Matters
No matter what your dietary preferences, people are curious about clean meat. Clean meat is often also called "lab-grown meat" or "cultured meat." It refers to "meat" that is grown from in vitro animals cell cultures, as opposed to from slaughtered animals. Just how many people are willing to try clean meat? According to a recent study from The Good Food Institute, nearly 70 per cent of Americans are willing to give it a shot.
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Food Safety Magazine
It is hard to make a banana look like a beet! For that matter, try to make bananas Foster with a beet, and you will end up with a dessert that resembles a horror movie prop instead of the dessert with a claim to fame. It's clear that fraud in the produce industry is not as easy as swapping out the banana for the beet, but there are opportunities for fraud that must be recognized and guarded against.
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Food Ingredients First
PepsiCo is making moves to become a more holistic business focusing on high-growth opportunities in the market such as healthy alternatives, well-being and nutrition, shaking off its old image of brands packed with salt, sugar and fat. A big part of this is the type of products PepsiCo wants to sell in the future and the type of business PepsiCo wants to become — much more focused on sustainability with a socially-minded attitude.
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Dairy Reporter
Researchers at the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences, at Utah State University have been studying the effect of cream aging temperature and agitation on butter properties.
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Dairy Reporter
Consumers may not always be on the lookout for food products fortified with probiotics (outside of a yogurt purchase), but that hasn't stopped manufacturers from developing new items that contain these living and active culture strains including oatmeal, granola, pancake mix, and trail mix.
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