Launched in December 2022, DRG4FOOD is an EU-funded project dedicated to building trust in data-driven food systems through €1.9 million in funding, strategic frameworks, and the Digital ...

Whether you want to fact-check a claim or sharpen your media literacy skills, this page is your trusted guide to verify science-based information.

There has been a lot of talk about lab-grown meat (also called cultivated or cell-based meat) in the news recently. This article explains what it is, how it’s made, and the barriers that will need to ...

Food processing is any method used to turn fresh foods into food products. This can involve one or a combination of the following: washing, chopping, pasteurising, freezing, fermenting, packaging and ...

Dive into the world of vitamins and minerals and find out how micronutrients work in our bodies and how we can get them from our diet!

Food safety risk assessments help determine whether a food or ingredient could pose harm, using a structural process that includes hazard identification, hazard characterisation, exposure assessment, ...

Acrylamide forms naturally in starchy foods cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, baking, roasting, and toasting, and is produced when certain sugars react with the amino acid asparagine during ...

From everyday cooking oils to infant formula, many foods we eat rely on carefully controlled processing methods that help extract key ingredients from plants. One of the tools often used in this ...

This part of our Facts on Fats review explains in more detail the different functions that dietary fats have in the human body, it covers dietary recommendations on fats from (inter)national ...

Nowadays there is a mass of information and advice available from different sources about nutrition and health, and interested individuals can find details about the nutrients (e.g. carbohydrates, fat ...

EUFIC’s review Facts on Fats provides the reader with an extensive, though easy to understand, overview of the various aspects related to the fats we consume through our diets. To make this ...

One food ingredient that is commonly on the receiving end of bad press is monosodium glutamate or MSG. However, this is unfounded. MSG can be safely used to add flavour and appeal to foods, and even ...