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UC Small Farms Food Safety Team Offers Bimonthly Produce Safety Workshops

Are you looking for food safety training opportunities for your small-scale produce farm? If so, the UC ANR Small Farms Food Safety team is here to help.

New! Food Tech Club Alumni Network Interest Form

Food Science and Technology

The Food Tech Club (FTC) at UC Davis is starting a Food Tech Club Alumni Network. We are currently looking to find alumni who would be willing to serve as network leaders as we first build this network. The current goals of the network are to help alumni stay connected to each other and to stay updated on the activities of the Food Tech Club. Sign up if you are interested in learning more about being a network leader and help us spread the word to your UCD community!

Maria Marco on NPR's Morning Edition - Secret superfood in white rice and pasta

Food Science and Technology

Can you change "bad" carbs into "good" ones? In this very interesting story featuring FST's Maria Marco, "There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it", from NPR's Morning Edition, May 12th, you'll learn about resistant starch, and how to convert "naughty" white rice and pasta into a slower-digesting form that is friendlier to our blood sugar because it contains more resistant starch (fiber).

Selina Wang talks oils on The Dave Chang Show podcast

Food Science and Technology

FST's Selina Wang is the guest on today's The Dave Chang Show podcast, where she, Dave, and host Chris Ying discuss the hot topic of seed oils and other cooking oils - what is healthy and why? Dave shares his opinions as a chef and restaurateur, and Selina explains some chemistry, along with factors like dose, time, temperature, and the fact that people are not rats. Tune in at 14:46 minutes for the start of her segment, which ends around 1:01 hr. The whole video is 1 hr. 25 min and is rated explicit for language.

What to Know About Processed and Ultra-Processed Food

Food Science and Technology

Experts Weigh In on the Debate Behind How Processed Foods Could Affect Health Take a stroll down the middle aisles of any American grocery store, and you’ll be surrounded by rows of brightly colored packaged macaroni and cheese, instant soups and chips in all forms and flavors — all with long ingredient lists.

Kasey Schalich wins GPA Young Researcher Award for Fundamental/Primary Research

Food Science and Technology

A big congratulations to Dr. Kasey Schalich, currently a postdoctoral researcher in David Mills' lab in the Department of Food Science and Technology, who has won the Global Prebiotic Association's Young Researcher Award for Fundamental/Primary Research in their 5th Annual Global Prebiotic Association Researcher Grant.

Linda J. Harris presents UGA's J. G. Woodroof Lecture for 2025

Food Science and Technology

FST's Distinguished Professor of Cooperative Extension in Microbial Food Safety, Linda Harris, gave the prestigious 2025 J. G. Woodroof Lecture, which was part of the spring 2025 Provost’s Signature Lecture Series, at Department of Food Science and Technology at University of Athens, Georgia, on April 10th. (Event Flyer, PDF 2.2 MB)

The Gut Health Benefits of Sauerkraut

Food Science and Technology

Is sauerkraut more than just a tangy topping? A new University of California, Davis, study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology suggests that the fermented cabbage could help protect your gut, which is an essential part of overall health, supporting digestion and protecting against illness.

Support the Barrett and Buhlert Memorial Food Science Award! UC Davis Give Day, April 11-12, 2025

Food Science and Technology

The Food Science and Technology Department is leading the way in sustainable food solutions, eliminating food loss and providing food security. Your #UCDavisGiveDay gift fuels groundbreaking research, student scholarships, and hands-on experiential learning.

Barrett and Buhlert Memorial Food Science Award

Support The Sensory Hub! UC Davis Give Day, April 11-12, 2025

Food Science and Technology

The Food Science and Technology Department is leading the way in sustainable food solutions, eliminating food loss and providing food security. Your #UCDavisGiveDay gift fuels groundbreaking research, student scholarships, and hands-on experiential learning.

UC Davis Give Day, April 11-12, 2025 - Support your Department!

Food Science and Technology

The Food Science and Technology Department is leading the way in sustainable food solutions, eliminating food loss and providing food security. Your #UCDavisGiveDay gift fuels groundbreaking research, student scholarships, and hands-on experiential learning.

Ask the Experts: What are ultra-processed foods and how do they impact our health?

Food Science and Technology

Three UC Davis experts answer your questions to provide insight based on research. Diet. Just the word alone can trigger an uneasy feeling and heated discussions with seemingly endless flavors of recommendations.

More Than a Taste Test - What It’s Like to be on a Trained Sensory Panel

Food Science and Technology

Pieces of dried mango rest on the bottom of a black opaque goblet. Next to it, another glass contains apricot jam. Leticia Cardoso Madureira Tavares, a second-year Ph.D. student in biosystems engineering, brings the glasses up to her nose one at a time to take a sniff.

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