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Now you can drink your caffeine and eat it, too

from Coloradoan.com (click image for full story online)

 

Now you can drink your caffeine and eat it, too

BY SHIRLEY PERRYMAN

The words caffeine and energy seem to go hand in hand.

If you count on that kick from your caffeine-loaded beverage to jump-start your day or help with brain fog, you [...]

Remote-control Fish

Really? Yes fish that will swim to a sound and wait for something to happen.

from: Mail & Guardian

 

What does that help? – what about fish that can be released into the open sea and which will swim back when called to be harvested.

Yes its real with the advantage being [...]

Indigenous Fruit Use – Tanzania

Following on my previous blog on the the potential of indigenous fruits in AfricaI today read an article on progress that has been made in Tanzania.

from: The Daily Fruit Wine Blog

 

This article lists four trees that are being planted and five, including the baobab, tamirand and marula which are harvested [...]

An Amazing Kebab Coater

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Ethanol From Corn – Costing

I hope this is not becoming too much of a biofuels blog, but I found this very interesting and was particularly struck by how a quick calculation can bring insight – maybe we need to to this more often in food processing!

While the “energy cost of ethanol” is much more difficult to calculate, the [...]

Natural Flavour Enhancer & More

Croatian Food Scientists have identified Trehalose, a sugar found naturally in mushrooms, honey, lobster and shrimp as a potential food additive. As well as enhancing aroma in processed strawberries it appear to improve the colour, aroma, and the anthocyanin content of the finished fillings.

from: Food Navigator Europe

 

Since aroma is [...]

Overview of Starting a Food Business

This article from Alabama Cooperative Extension System is comprehensive and detailed, it unfortunately written for the USA system but should guide an entrepreneur thinking about the food sector.

from: Alabama Cooperative Extension System

 

It mainly a focused narrative that covers the practical processes that need to be addressed with lots of useful [...]

Fourth Generation Biofuels

I’n now seeing articles about “fourth generation” biofuels, like the one below from Biopact, while I was still in the second generation.

from Biopact

For those who are maybe as confused as I am, this is how I understand it it.

First Generation – these are the ones we all know and the [...]

Yak cheese healthier for heart than cheddar: study

It seems like Yak’s produce a milk that when converted into cheese offers nutritional benefits compared to cow’s milk.

from Food Navigator

 

” The higher ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids found in yak’s cheese would mean it could be “classified as a healthy food in human diets,” state the researchers [...]

Small Business Services – South Africa

The list below is one of the few comprehensive lists I have seen focussing on the “upper end of small”. Unfortunately its almost 3 years old and I am not sure how up to date it is.

from: Business Owner & Co

 

If you have a better list please leave a [...]