It is easy to overlook the many dangers of artificial sweeteners since they are often touted as low-calorie or non-nutritive alternatives. Food regulatory bodies have, in recent years, been identifying various health complications linked to the consumption of artificial sweeteners. Unfortunately, artificial sweeteners have become ubiquitous as they feature prominently in almost all sweetened store-bought…
The rise of ghost kitchens was prominent during the COVID lockdown because people could not dine out and struggled to buy groceries. For the uninitiated, ghost kitchens are delivery-only food establishments. Regular restaurants have a logistics and food preparation backend and a service frontend that is visible to customers. Meanwhile, ghost kitchens don’t have a…
No one can explicitly predict the future of food in 2050. However, judging by advances in food cultivation, development, processing, and preservation over the years, we may have some luck with predicting the trajectory of the food industry in a few decades. Innovations in virtually all facets of life are materializing at the speed of…
The adoption of AI in food delivery should not be surprising because technology is disrupting every known industry. Like other manufacturers, food companies have since commenced AI integration in several activities on their production floors. Consequently, some food chains are adopting AI to spread its tentacles to the customer-fulfilment aspect of their business. This piece…
Lab-grown meat, aka cultured meat, was an obscure product that gained fame when it was discovered that conventional meat production contributes significantly to global warming. Many scientific demonstrations suggest that cultured meat could become an ethical and sustainable alternative to traditional meat sources. However, does lab-grown meat possess the potential of public acceptance within the…
