Our latest food crowdfunding roundup is packed with kick-ass projects like a beekeeping app, personal farming system, local food delivery van and more. [...]
From throwing away your spoiled vegetables to restaurant kitchen scraps, food is the largest single contributor to municipal solid waste in the US, at more than 36 million tons a y[...]
Counting your calories may become much easier thanks to The Orange Chef’s new quantified cooking products. The company will soon be releasing Prep Pad, a digital scale that calcula[...]
From payments to ordering to engagement, the restaurant industry is seeing its fair share of food tech innovation. Much of the innovation seems to be targeted towards large chains [...]
What’s the difference between Grade A, organic, natural and free-range eggs? Amongst a sea of misleading food labels, Buying Poultry hopes to take the guess-work out of choosing th[...]
Last Saturday, a carefully curated group of developers and hackers gathered at Pivotal Labs for Ordr.in’s daylong HackFood event. The theme was food. The plan was to hack. And that[...]
The June Food+Tech Meetup featured five startups that are revolutionizing the restaurant industry, including Yumspring, Clean Plates, Mirth, Single Platform and BuzzTable. Presente[...]
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 .[...]
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[...]
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Any company building apps or platforms to improve the consumer shopping experience knows that grocery product data is EXPENSIVE, costing $100,000+ annually to license. This data is[...]
Will Turnage describes his vision of "Hacking the Food System," a dynamic recipe system that takes choice of ingredients, dietary restrictions and much more into account.[...]
We live in a backward world. A world where it is strange to know where our food comes from. Foods that are grown and processed without adulteration have to prove it, while the use [...]
It takes millions and millions of tons of food to feed a city. Somehow, enough milk and produce and soda makes its way to, say, Los Angeles; somehow it all gets distributed — frequ[...]
My current work focuses on creating software that improves the home cooking experience. Over the past two years, I've worked with food writer Michael Ruhlman, and together we've st[...]
[Editors Note: This is the third story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] In mid July, the En[...]
A heavy-hitting group of investors including Dave McClure, Ilya Fushman, William Rosenzweig, Aki Sano and Tom Cole came together at “The New Food Chain: Investing in Food Sta[...]
"What do I want to eat?" In the era of the Web, where everyone is an expert, this seemingly simple question is becoming increasingly more difficult to answer. How do we sift throug[...]
You are growing, growing, growing. But alas, you have 80 plums, and no lettuce. What do you do? Well, you can set them outside of your apartment and hope they magically get traded[...]
The days are numbered for critics and experts, but is the future of food really the present day user generated sources? How do location, friends, palate and automated recommendatio[...]
I’m very excited about this week’s set of iPhone apps. With a tip of the hat to the Fab Five freshmen from the Michigan Wolverines back in the 90′s, I give you: the Fab Four free i[...]