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While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any[...]
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[...]
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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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[...]
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.[...]
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[...]
After all those years of not eating red meat and cutting back on the mayonnaise, science now tells us it's carbs, not fat, making Americans overweight. This interesting infographi[...]
Destin Joy Layne of GRACE Communications Foundation describes her vision of “Hacking the Food System” to Food+Tech Connect. [...]
*Jameson is a guest blogger for Food+Tech Connect and a middle school student at Sts. Philip and James School in Long Island, NY.* One in three Americans suffer from obesity[...]
Calling all Food Advocates & Designers This Saturday, August 13, 2011, Code for America and The Noun Project are bringing together designers and food advocates to create new s[...]
One of the great challenges of building a startup is ensuring that your product meets market demand. This seems to be particularly true for data-driven startups, whose initial prod[...]
Food+Tech Connect is dedicated to building community for the growing food and tech sector- both online and off. I am thrilled to be working with Emily Cavalier of Mouth of The Bord[...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller[...]
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most bas[...]
This interactive visualization by SlateLabs demonstrates the rise in diabetes diagnoses among adult Americans. Slate used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention t[...]
It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven[...]
Around two years ago (December 15th to be exact), I became the first paid employee of BrightFarm Systems (the New York Sun Works crew joined 16 days later). Our only project at the[...]
Infographic about the health and fiscal cost school lunches using USDA, Let's Move & Slow Food USA data.[...]
“Instead of using politics to drive resources in Chicago, in terms of what grocery stores should be prioritized and given incentives and which ones maybe not. I said, how abo[...]
In 2010, the USDA National Farmers Market Directory counted over 6,200 operational farmers markets in the country. That’s more than a 16 percent growth in farmers markets from 2009[...]
What is the Farm Bill? The Farm Bill is the 700-page, $289 billion federal legislation that sets the rules and appropriations for the U.S. food system. While originally created as [...]
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when trying to make healthy food decisions? Do you find yourself standing in the aisles of your grocery store trying to navigate ingredient lists, nutr[...]
Does your organization ever have problems that seem too difficult, large, or expensive to solve? If you work within the food system, your answer is most likely YES. Why? Because th[...]
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