Hands up if you like sweets! Chocolates, candies, cakes, and cookies… Why can’t we just get enough of them?  How do we perceive taste? Let’s start by looking at the mechanism of taste perception. What we perceive as a sweet taste is usually caused by sugars and their derivatives as fructose or lactose. Sometimes responding to […]

Nowadays, when ~2.5 billion tons of food is wasted, food preservation is especially important. It provides access to off-season fruits and vegetables. Thanks to different methods of preservation we have the opportunity to try cuisines from different parts of the world. Food preservation includes growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, and distribution. The main disadvantage is that […]

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