The notion of curing—not just preventing—cancer through food rather than therapies including drugs, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery has been an elusive goal as scientists around the globe pursue ...

Beyond consumer demand, regulatory bodies worldwide are pushing for reduced-sugar consumption through taxes and labeling ...

A leading AI futurist and IFT keynoter explores the next frontier of artificial intelligence--and explains why it's essential ...

Nearly three-quarters of global consumers are now aware of functional foods and beverages—products that provide a health benefit beyond nutrition—and just over half plan to increase their use, ...

Market researchers agree: Often the best way to understand something is with a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. So that’s what Food Technology did to arrive at our 2025 Consumer ...

At IFT, we advocate for a food systems approach—one that elevates the central role of food science in securing nutrition, ...

Technology—“the great growling engine of change” as American futurist Alvin Toffler aptly described it—continues to trend strongly toward digitization across manufacturing sectors, especially in the ...

Lou Cooperhouse has ridden a tidal wave of firsts in the food innovation space over the past 40 years. At Campbell Soup, back in the early 1980s, he led operations for a brand called Today’s Taste, ...

Like most food scientists, Rachel Zemser is something of a novice when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI). But when the Almond Board of California asked her to play around with Tastewise IO and ...

In a world where slow news days seem to be a thing of the past, flavors that foster positive moods and offer a respite from stress and worry are what consumers appear to want, and even need. “With a ...

Savvy restaurateurs have long put every scrap of food to good use. The global retail food industry, however, is in the beginning stages of commercializing food waste to help reduce the amount of food ...