Tag: food

• Plastic Cookies

  An international NASA contest has resulted in a technology that turn plastic compounds and agricultural waste into proteins. A team from Southern Illinois University has turned those proteins into a 3D printed cookie that could combat global hunger and …

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  October 30, 2026Episodes

• Eating Ants

  Findings published in the journal Evolution reveal that mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and termites at least 12 times since the Cenozoic era began, roughly 66 million years ago. Why? And what does that …

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  August 22, 2025Episodes

• Taste This Machine

  Scientists have developed a device, called “e-Taste”, capable of recreating complex flavours of food and drink from five basic building blocks, and plan to use it to enhance virtual reality and augmented reality systems, boosting immersive experiences. Anthony and …

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  April 28, 2025Episodes

• Spicy Expectations

  A new study used varying levels of hot sauce to test whether the expectation of spice and discomfort impacted the actual experience. Jeff and Anthony discuss how our brains deal with expectation – and also the way this study …

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  January 1, 2025Episodes

• Blue Food

  When you see food that is colored blue, what flavor do you expect it to be? As the rarest color in plants and animals, blue might be the strangest color to eat. Jeff and Anthony dig into the unusual …

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  October 21, 2024Episodes

• Sugar Bones

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  Link to this week’s story: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243939166/lunchables-consumer-reports-school-lunch

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  May 13, 2024Episodes

• Lead for Lunch

  Consumer Reports released a new report on Lunchables in which it found lead and cadmium, and also observed the presence of phthalates, which can impact reproductive health and the human hormonal system. Anthony and Jeff discuss the findings, and …

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  April 15, 2024Episodes

• Processing the Process of Processed Food Study

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  Link to this week’s story: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/27/ultra-processed-foods-are-not-more-appealing-study-finds

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  December 11, 2023Episodes

• Don’t Get Hangry

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  September 22, 2023Episodes

• Working for Food and Space Pizza

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  August 20, 2021Episodes