Biodegradable plastics still damaging to fish – Otago study
Biodegradable plastics may not be the solution to plastic pollution many hoped for, with a University of Otago study showing they are still harmful to fish.
Source: otago.ac.nz
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Machine first of its kind in the world
New technology co-developed by a University of Otago researcher is about to make a major dent in the world’s food-waste crisis. Food science...
Source: odt.co.nz
Fire in the belly: How food technology changed humanity, and New Zealand
Cooking food, which aimed to make it more digestible, rapidly increased the brain size of homo sapiens. Food technology has evolved a lot since humans discovered fire. Fast-forward to 6000BC and we get another key moment in food technology, fermentation, which developed in a variety of cultures (as it were). Another major discovery was milling, a very basic process which involved the crushing of seeds for digestibility, creating what must have been a fairly crunchy type of flour. But food science really came into its own in the late 1700s, with the breakthrough by the “father of canning...
Source: stuff.co.nz