Drinking coffee can do much more than providing a boost to our energy. Roasted coffee is familiar to everyone but green coffee is not much. If you have noticed, you can see various brands of green coffee available at super markets and online platforms, in both beans and powder form. After seeing green coffee, many questions come to our mind. Green coffee is claimed to provide various health benefits to individuals but is it true? Is there any scientific data to prove this? How’s it different from roasted coffee beans? There are two different methods for the processing of coffee beans: dry pr ..read more

Large varieties of fruits are available in the world but only a few of them are known to the majority of population. Many of them are underutilized and are gaining importance nowadays. There is one fruit in West Africa, called miracle fruit, which has taste modifying properties. You must be thinking what do I mean by taste-modifying properties? Well, this fruit changes the taste of any substance from sour to sweet which means, you’ll perceive sweetness even if you consume sour product, e.g. lemon. Fascinating, right? How does it happen? Let's see in detail. The scientific name of the miracl ..read more

If our last article on Green Coffee was intriguing for you, we are back with another interesting article on coffee, an article about one of the most exclusive and expensive coffee in the world. With more than 100 varieties of coffee, this one stands out for a reason unimaginable in your wildest dreams. Wanna know? If yes, then read on to find why a cup of Kopi Luwak can go to around 80$. The secret to this expensive commodity is poop. Wait, what? Yes. At least technically, yes. The coffee is made from beans that are fed to a civet, a cat-like creature, which expels it out after partially di ..read more

Were you here looking out for the biggest-ever muffin in the world? If yes, then no this article isn’t about the biggest one in the world, but about the one which is going to be the healthy one in a world of unhealthy muffins. How? How could a muffin and health be under one roof? In a world of people going health-conscious by the minute, educating themselves about the ever-growing list of health risks, it was high time, don’t you think? The super muffin is named Roselle after a plant extract is added to it. The calyx extract of Hibiscus Sabdariffa (commonly called Roselle) is added to the muf ..read more

Milk is very common term for any human being. Since our childhood, we are drinking milk as one of the essential part of our diet. The classifications in layman term for milk are on the basis of source e.g. cow’s milk, buffalo’s milk, goat’s milk, camel’s milk, etc. With the advancement in food technology, the classification of milk took another side based on the fat percentage in milk e.g. full cream milk, toned milk, double toned milk, skimmed milk, standardised milk, etc. These are the most common classifications anyone knows. But have you heard about A1 milk and A2 milk? What is this class ..read more

World of chocolate is very unique. You would have seen different chocolate-based products in market. Some of them use Ghana chocolate, or some sell Belgian chocolate. Madagascar chocolate products and Ecuador chocolates also has importance in market. If you notice, every chocolate tastes different. It’s obvious that different processing methods will affect the taste of the chocolate but what if we give same processing to every origin chocolate? Well, the taste will be different that’s why we have given importance to the origin of chocolate. Depending upon the origin, chocolate have differen ..read more

A few months back a friend took me to visit a tea plantation in Karnataka. Those green plantations on the side of a mountain with a beautiful valley on the other side were a view I can stay in forever. A picturesque landscape I carry on with me. Those green shrubs filling the entire area of land. I think this is what comes to most of your minds as well when I talk about tea plantations. But well what if I told you that green was not the only color. What did you think of hearing about Albino tea? Yes, albino tea is exactly how it sounds. It usually is of paler color – yellowish or whitish in ..read more

The Last few years have seen immense growth in the industry for plant-based meats and dairy. With increasing demands in the market and environmental concerns, scientists are now dwelling deeper into the sciences of alternative seafood. Leveraging fermentation technology could meet growing demands and at the same time protect the oceans. If we continue to continue current fishing trends, experts claim that by 2048, we will have exhausted all of our wild seafood stocks. The global seafood demand is forecasted to increase by 30% by 2050. One group of scientists in Copenhagen in collaboration wit ..read more

Being an Indian myself, I cannot stress more on how intoxicating and intriguing the Indian cuisine is. Indian food is known around the world for its mesmerizing aromas and a basket full of ingredients. For the people who try it for the first time often relate it to all the spice stories they have heard of the Indian land. The huge amount of spices like cardamom, tamarind and a wide arena of flavours build the foundation of the Indian cuisine. Even though every Indian I know has a soft corner for sweets be it jamuns, rasmalais and what not, Indian food is healthy and is usually packed with veg ..read more

Sugar reduction is one of the major sustainability project on which every organisation is working on. Either it’s bakery industry or beverage or confectionery, sugar reduction is a main agenda. While many companies are coming up with the artificial sweeteners as solution, other are focusing on natural alternatives such as stevia. There are many products which contain polyols, or fructo-oligosaccharides as sugar alternatives which give them added advantage of being dietary fibres. But at the end, every alternative that has been explored, required to be added in final good either with small quan ..read more