Narrow Leaf Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) The narrow leaf plantain is a very common 30 to 50cm plant, which you can find on many meadows...

Under-utilised Ingredients: Fonio Grain (Digitaria exilis) Walking through central Berlin you can recognise more and more cafés, offering...

Hungry for algae III After the last two articles about algae, in which we wrote about the potential of algae for human nutrition and as a...

Damiana: (Turnera diffusa) The Damiana plant is an up to 2 meters tall shrub, which indigenous to Latin America and which leaves are...

After Pre- and Probiotics it now the turn for Postbiotics? Since the last two decades pre- and probiotics got a lot of attention from...

Food for thought: Plant probiotics Everyone in the Food & Health industry is talking about the great opportunities arising around the...

Detecting food fraud The history of food fraud is probably as old as the trade of food products itself, as there has always been people,...

LionFish During our trip to Barbados we were introduced to the lion fish during our dive. the lion fish is a predator native to the...

Soursop During my trip to Barbados, spending some time talking with local farmers and cooking with some regional produce I passed by this...

Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) Growing up in New Zealand I often started my day with a nice slice of bread with Honey, deriving from the...

Hungry for algae (Part 2) In the first part of our hungry for algae series, we wrote about the application potential of algae as...

Sugar reduction / alternatives There has been a lot in the media about sugar reduction and implementation of sugar taxes, but do taxes...

As the lakes around Berlin get warmer and warmer during this extraordinarily hot summer and algae are growing a lot faster on the lakes...

Customer Value & product development Many food developers think that developing a successful food product is just about the right recipe,...

The avocado Leaf: (Peresea drymifolia) The Avocado tree is partially self-pollinating and is most commonly known for their fruit, the...

Chaga When I wrote the Article about the chicken of the woods last week, another interesting mushroom popped in my mind, which is used...

Laetiporus sulphureus – Chicken of the woods During a hiking tour last weekend I came across this wonderful fungi variety and thought it...

Dissecting the sunflower: Helianthus annuus As the spring has now finally arrived in Berlin and I started planting the first plants and...

Hop asparagus: Humulus lupulus As due to the long winter the asparagus season has started a little bit later this year in Germany I think...

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