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 ...

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 ...

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

The history of who invented chocolate and how it's made is as interesting as the food is delicious. Mayans and Aztecs used cacao beans as a form of currency and even offered the beans to their gods.