This post outlines the rough prototype of a dinner planning app built r to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do lis[...]
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[...]
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[...]
“The Story of Sushi” is an enlightening tale of sushi's journey from sea-to-plate. Created as a marketing video for Bamboo Sushi, a sustainable sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon[...]
This week's infographic is an interesting visual timeline of USDA Food Guidelines, including commentary about the problems associated with each version of the guideline.[...]
Yesterday, the USDA launched Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass, a new digital report that details USDA support for local and regional food projects. The wealth of data[...]
In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detai[...]
A new report on the "water footprint of humanity" from scientists at the University of Twente analyzes and maps global water use from 1996 to 2005. According to the study, agricu[...]
Bon Appétit Management Company, which operates cafés for companies including Twitter, Yahoo! and eBay, announced Tuesday the rollout of a comprehensive farm animal welfare policy t[...]
In this video from TEDxManhattan, James Beard Foundation Executive Vice President Mitchell Davis talks about taste as a powerful tool for social change. [...]
Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle have produced a beautiful stop-motion film that uses vegetables to visualize Pollan's "Food Rules" talk, given at the Royal Society for the enco[...]
This week's infographic is a series of charts and graphs with fascinating information culled from an online survey by Nielsen of more than 25,000 people from 56 countries. [...]
Food and agriculture know are low margin industries. Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, a company that designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms [...]
Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect [...]
Americans will purchase 5 percent of the year's chocolate this week for Valentine's Day. But where does that chocolate come from and how is it grown, picked, processed and shipped[...]
Despite the media's fixation with the latest, greatest gadget, often times innovation takes place behind the scenes, using technology we don't often hear about. Radio-frequency id[...]
McDonalds recently announced it will no longer include “pink slime” (ammonium hydroxide) in its burgers. But what about all the other chemical additives we’ve never heard of and ca[...]
For several months our team at Good Eggs has been researching the local food phenomenon around the country. We’re looking for ways in which technology can help grow and sustain loc[...]
Today's infographic follows on the heels of last week's amazingly popular Carbs are Killing You visual and the lively conversation, and wish list for health and nutrition apps, tha[...]
Last Friday, Food+Tech Connect posted “Carbs are Killing You” as the Infographic of the Week, and we received almost 70 comments on the visual. The responses are interesting and ex[...]
Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.
Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin's newest pro[...]
As modern technology is adopted in widespread regions of our planet, it can provide poor people with access to many forms of media. Innovations like the internet and satellite tech[...]