Plant Based

Narrow Leaf Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)

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

Fonio Grain (Digitaria exilis)

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

Hungry for algae III

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)

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

Food for thought: Plant probiotics

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

Soursop (the fruit of Annona muricata)

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)

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)

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

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

The avocado Leaf: (Peresea drymifolia)

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

Inonotus obliquus - Chaga

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

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:

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

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...

Kawakawa (macropiper excelsum)

Under-utilised Ingredients for Innovation: Kawakawa (macropiper excelsum) in Europe, this is a rather unknown New Zealand shrub is...