Consumers will likely be facing increased food prices of 4 to 5 percent in 2013 – as opposed to the average inflation of 2.5 to 3.5 percent – according to Consum[...]
Fujitsu announced yesterday that it will be launching “Akisai,” a cloud-based platform to improve management of Japan’s food and agriculture industries, this Octo[...]
The USDA is stepping up their online engagement and open data efforts with the Google+ Hangout and follow-up Twitter Chat they are hosting in conjunction with their updated Know Y[...]
The June Food+Tech Meetup featured five startups that are revolutionizing the restaurant industry, including Yumspring, Clean Plates, Mirth, Single Platform and BuzzTable. Presente[...]
The 5th Annual Computer Cooking Contest invites individuals, research groups and companies applying AI technologies to home cooking - such as case-based reasoning, semantic technol[...]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the[...]
Real Time Farms launched the FixAntibiotics Food Finder. The first of its kind map enables consumers to find retail locations, farmers markets, farms and restaurants selling meat [...]
In anticipation of the impending challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050 , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute [...]
New survey results from Consumer's Union indicate that 86 percent of the consumers think meat raised without antibiotics should be available in their local supermarket.[...]
PBS's America Revealed released a short clip visualizing a New York City Domino pizza delivery route, which went viral thanks to some influential blogs. The spread of the video off[...]
What can tweets tell us about global food consumption and its impact on emotional well-being? FoodMood is an interactive data visualization project that aims to measure global food[...]
Americans may be spending less money on food, but dollars saved are just being spent on the resulting costs of poor health that plague the nation.
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The winning project of the Quirky + GE Project is Milkmaid, is a quart size glass milk jug that can sense when your milk will go bad. Milk is becoming an object of interest for tho[...]
Snack Data is a visual database of snack foods. Created by Beau Johnson, each food illustration includes a description and tasting note with each of his snack illustrations- 176 t[...]
Two innovative Kickstarter campaigns providing insights into future trends for home cooking tools - video, increased focus on technique, interative iPad experiences and voice-enabl[...]
USDA dietary guidelines recommend that 50 percent of our daily food intake should be fruits and vegetables. But there is clearly a disconnect between the guidelines and the mere 2[...]
Peer-to-peer sharing, traceability and enterprise software are just a few of the ways technology is catalyzing a flexible, resilient and sustainable food system. With food tech as[...]
"How do I use the internet to attract more customers?" is one of the most frequent questions asked by restaurant and bar owners. While listing services and online ordering websites[...]
Interactive design agency Teehan+Lax's "Labs" has developed a milk jug and Android mobile app that alert you when you are low on milk in your refrigerator .[...]
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a ne[...]
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common t[...]