Posts Tagged ‘food processing’

Yogurt from Ants: Food Science at a Five-Star Restaurant

October 5, 2025 — At one of the world’s finest restaurants, Alchemist in Copenhagen, a menu item invited a scientific study. It was the restaurant’s yogurt fermented with ants. Why in the world did this traditional Bulgarian yogurt require ants? What were those ants doing to help make yogurt from milk? They produce yogurt that has “a slight tangy […]

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Humans Chewing Up Energy When We Eat

August 22, 2022 — Believe it or not, the amount of energy we’re chewing up when we eat is both significant and important to understand. It’s significant because chewing can raise the rate at which our bodies burn energy by 10 to 15 percent. Just last week, Adam van Casteren published a paper quantifying this for the first time […]