The science of food – Page 27

  • Careers

    Chew's life

    2012-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Revolymer’s expertise in polymer chemistry has brought non-stick, biodegradable chewing gum to the mass market

  • Takeaway chinese food with MSG
    Podcast

    Glutamate

    2012-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Phillip Broadwith cooks up a storm with this week's tasty compound

  • Jam jar and toast on a wooden board
    Podcast

    Pectin

    2011-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Without this compound, our favourite sweet treats would be nothing more than runny liquids

  • Vanilla fruit drying
    Podcast

    Vanillin

    2010-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton explores the history of Vanillin 

  • FEATURE-Bread-250
    Feature

    Bread chemistry on the rise

    2009-10-01T15:52:00Z

    The ancient tradition of bread baking depends on a cascade of chemical reactions. Scientists have found myriad ways to modify the process, say Bryan Reuben and Tom Coultate

  • Periodic table of the elements – 30 – Zinc
    Podcast

    Zinc

    2008-04-09T00:00:00Z

    We're still very intimate with this element that was known to the ancients

  • Feature

    Fighting food fraud with science

    2007-08-28T14:12:00Z

    Bea Perks meets some of the scientists subjecting our food's credentials to forensic examination

  • Detail of Giotto di Bondone's Ognissanti Madonna (Madonna enthroned)
    News

    Sniffing out garlic in gilded artworks

    2006-01-24T12:13:00Z

    The presence of garlic in early gilded artworks has been confirmed

  • beer
    News

    A pint a day

    1996-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Sterile, free of toxic metals, isotonic and good for the heart, beer is undeserving of decades of bad press.