Despite the old idiom warning against it, I know how a lot of sausage gets made. That knowledge doesn’t stop me from eating bratwurst or kielbasa though, no matter who makes it or where. The same is ...

The powerful and highly versatile atomic force microscope can be applied to decipher mouthfeel in flavor perception. Credit: Nature Food (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00958-3 A team led by Melanie ...

Water is the healthiest choice of beverage … right? TikTok was not lovin’ it after a user posted a video showing a drop of McDonald’s water under a microscope, revealing small “microfibers” and ...

Caren Alpert is a San Francisco-based photographer. She works as a food stylist, but she also shoots ordinary food objects in microscopic detail in a body of work she calls Terra Cibus. The ...

San Francisco-based photographer Caren Alpert combines her love of photography, food, and art in images taken with an electron microscope. Shooting Oreo cookies, shrimp, leaves, and candy, she brings ...

Peering through a microscope, food scientist Raquel Gomez studies microorganisms that add nutrients and preserve tortillas for several weeks without refrigerators -- a luxury in impoverished Mexican ...

A new perspectives article focuses on different ways to study the mouthfeel of food using atomic force microscopy to better understand the biophysical mechanisms that contribute to taste sensations in ...