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Ever Wondered What Super Fruits Are?

Have you ever wondered if the was really a good defintion of super fruiots – this short article might help you make up your mind.

from: Food Product Design (click image for full story online)

For me these three quotes clarify a lot

..there is no regulatory or scientific definition of a superfruit..

..superfruit” [...]

A Practical & Understandable Food Quality Manual For Small Processors

While it is true that the food quality requirements that will apply to your business are a function of your consumer and the local regulations, this manual written for Romania within the context of the EU market, offers a very useful view of food hygiene and safety for small processors.

from: Fundatia-Adept (click image for [...]

Improved Tamarind Beverage Process – Scientific Paper Series

This is a paper looking at the potential of a less used Nigerian traditional drink produced from Tamarind

from: AJFAND (click image for full story online)

The paper looks at different recipes based on the level of the added Ginger, Clove and Pepper. It presents taste and analytical results along with traditional and improved process [...]

Check It, Weather Doesn’t Cause Civil War in Africa – Single Screenshot Series.

from: Acadamy of Science (click image for full story online)

Cereals Post Harvest Management – Free Online Technical Manual

This has no Food Processing but focusses in detail on the small scale management of cereals giving details information on spoilage, treatment, storage equipment and storage practices.

It is a well illustrated book that is aimed at the extension worker.

 

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1 Billion People Live in Chronic Hunger and I’m Mad as Hell

This is the title of a petition launched by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FA0).

(click the image to sign the petition)

I totally agree with this – it’s particularly disturbing if you think of how we “over consume” and waste food. So I have signed the petition and [...]

Local Farmers and Processor Provides Food Aid, Replacing Imports

This is so simple but so powerful its sad its taken so long to happen and is the exception rather than the practice.

 

from: World Food Programme (click image for full story online)

 

For years we have known and seen in reports and comments lately that the food aid is as much a [...]

Ugandan Study Of The Effect of Drying on Nutritional Content of Vegetables

This study in the African Journal of Nutrition, Agriculture and Development (AJFAND), clearly shows, as would be expected, the loss in Vitamin A and C was the highest, while the crude protein content measured by a Kjeldahl method fell more than the minerals and fibre which one would not expect to be directly effected by [...]

Do You Remember Food Chain? – Its Being Relaunched & Is Looking For Informed Authors!

 

Professor Peter Fellows has been appointed Editor for the relaunch of Food Chain by Practical Action, previously ITDG. The journal is described as an international journal of small-scale food processing and food supply management.

 

from: Practical Action (click image for full story online)

 

The first issue which will be [...]

More Excess and Waste While Millions Are Hungry!

Another different practice that adds to the concern over the fact that many go hungry while the rich indulge!

(click the image to open website)