Brian Witlin on why harnessing data and creating financial incentives for healthy eating, will help us reimagine food production, regulation and consumption. [...]
The two year old nutrition data startup has built a semantic food technology platform, which generates real time nutritional analysis of 1.5 million recipes.[...]
The question should not be whether your restaurant should adopt technology, it should be what are the best solutions for your business and your customers. [...]
Technology is transforming every industry, and now it’s coming to agriculture. Over the past six years, a growing number of AgTech startups have developed technologies to help the [...]
Every week we curate and deliver the latest food tech news, trends and startup resources to our readers’ inboxes. We track the top technology and innovation happenings across agric[...]
Guest post by Elizabeth Meltz of Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. It’s become common knowledge that 40% of food in America goes uneaten. To get our food from farm to pla[...]
South By SouthWest (SXSW), the largest digital-interactive conference in the United States, offers a unique opportunity to connect with and learn from a diverse group of people who[...]
In the United States, nearly 15 percent of families are food insecure. The government recently cut $5 billion dollars in food stamp funding, and a recent report by the U.S. Confere[...]
For small food producers generating FDA-certified nutrition labels – which are required for business that make nutrient content claims, sell more than $50,000 of food or sell[...]
Food and the holidays go hand in hand. From turkey and stuffing to latkes, roasts and innumerable holiday parties, ’tis the season to be devouring. At this most food-centric [...]
Commodities markets and anyone in the food supply chain rely on USDA data to operate. This includes critical data that farmers depend on to price crops and livestock, as well as de[...]
Ever wonder why cooking chicken always seems less desirable than preparing a juicy steak or why wine and cheese are a match made in heaven? The answers to such food pairing queries[...]
Earlier this year, corporate food giants Kraft and Nestlé Australia opened up their recipe and ingredient data to developers and consumers. While these are just first steps, we hop[...]
Locu is a local-data company that began by helping restaurants digitize and share their menus. With its new API, it has a chance to become the backbone of applications that help us[...]
‘Standards’ and ‘interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a ve[...]
Looks like Google is at it again, this time with a nifty weather layer you can choose to view in Google Maps. And while handy for city travelers, or in making conversation with you[...]
In early July I read in The New York Times that the World Bank is releasing 7,000 data sets into the public domain. So I decided to check it out and see what’s there. Not a lot, it[...]
Please join Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, & Gojee on December 4th for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-sou[...]
In the spirit of President Obama's call for innovation, the USDA decided to take a different approach toward fighting obesity- gaming & competition.[...]
Thanks for all the comments! It’s great to see that this stirred some conversation. My good friend Cking1 posted this comment at http://provenancefood.blogspot.com and I want[...]