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Your top search this week: umami 😋 “Products include umami, saltiness, sourness, sweetness and bitterness, and the umami taste is the most important taste”. – that the very first search results out of 13,303 findings from recent research papers when you look for “umami” on Science Says search engine. Recent weeks bring us
Scholarcy has recently partnered with Science Says to index millions of evidence-based facts from food science research papers, making the latest discoveries in this field more accessible to a broad community of readers. Scholarcy’s knowledge extraction technology identifies the important facts, claims and findings from research papers and presents these as easy-to-read, bite-sized synopses. It
Did you know that around 931 million tonnes of food waste were generated in 2019? 61 per cent came from households, 26 per cent from food service, and 13 per cent from retail. It means that 17 per cent of total global food production is wasted! This week, we’re talking about how we can reduce food waste and
The biggest problems the world is facing in healthcare, education, climate change and many other issues are not going to be solved without the help of science. My co-founder Kris Jack and I feel very strongly about the need to bridge the gap between academia and the rest of the world. When the pandemic started
