A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National[...]
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at the recent Food Startups Meetup, featuring industry leaders from: F[...]
Organic Trade Association forecasts for 2012 and 2013 indicate that organic food and non-food sales will continue to grow nine percent or higher annually.[...]
While consumer demand for information about where our food is coming from and how it's grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that ac[...]
Two student groups tackling hunger and agriculture management challenges emerged as winners in the U.S. Finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup Software Design Competition.[...]
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life - over food- by reducing what they have identified as the "barriers to entertaining." Last wee[...]
Over the past 5 months, Massive Health has collected over 7.68 million food ratings from people in 50 countries. Today, they are releasing some of their key findings as a series of[...]
Food gets it's fair share of bad press these days, and for good reason. Food+Tech Connect wants to help you explore new ideas for how information and technology can be used to chan[...]
What is the human impact of inefficiencies in how your tax dollars are spent? In 2010 the U.S. spent $2 billion total on international food aid, but $491 million of those ta[...]
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultur[...]
Just Label It, a campaign advocating for the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, created the following infographic to illustrate why GE foods should be labeled.[...]
Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world's first 'digital kitchen platform.' [...]
Cerealize, a new subscription website that allows consumers to design custom blended, organic breakfast cereal and have a box of it shipped to their home, took first prize for this[...]
The latest infographic from Column Five and Massive Health maps the Satiety Index against the Inverted Glycemic Index to determine which foods fill you up and keep you satisfied.
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Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farm[...]
A new food recognition scanner developed by Toshiba Tec may change the way we shop, and potentially the way we maintain information about perishable food. The Object Recognition Sc[...]
There are two interesting pieces of news from last week on the ways social media is being leveraged to share information about food safety concerns, as well as to predict outbreaks[...]
Our SXSW food picks for those attending or following SXSWi on Twitter this week. I will be organizing some impromptu Food+Tech happy hours. Follow the hashtag #SXfoodtech for more [...]
This June 5, the best and brightest of the food tech community are being invited to showcase your work at the third annual Health Data Palooza. Hosted by The Health Health Data In[...]