Spirulina; the food for future

Organic Agriculture: Food for Future Green Consumers in Iran

The aim of this paper was investigating the effects of organic knowledge, perceived consequences, subjective norms,price, and green trust, perceived consumer effectiveness, availability, relative advantage, and organic purchase intention on organic purchase behavior among Iranian consumers as the consumers in a developing country.The survey questionnaire was administered to the customers of lar...

Food microbiology: the challenges for the future.

Food microbiology has become a mature science in the twentieth century and has made great advances. While recognising these achievements, it is also necessary to consider how the science may need to change. This paper addresses this by reference to three areas. These are possible changes in foodborne diseases of concern and the impact of molecular and genetic techniques on our current methodolo...

The Future of Food

I n the 1980s, the precautionary principle migrated from its European roots to the international environmental scene. By 1992, it was ubiquitous: it appeared in the Rio Declaration, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). These precedents ultimately spawned the CBD’s January 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which uses the...

Insects as Food – Something for the Future?

Planting seeds for the future of food

The health and wellbeing of future generations will depend on humankind's ability to deliver sufficient nutritious food to a world population in excess of 9 billion. Feeding this many people by 2050 will require science-based solutions that address sustainable agricultural productivity and enable healthful dietary patterns in a more globally equitable way. This topic was the focus of a multi-di...

Molecular diversity of bacteria in commercially available "Spirulina" food supplements.

The cyanobacterium Arthrospira is among the most well-known food supplements worldwide known as "Spirulina." While it is a widely recognized health-promoting natural product, there are no reports on the molecular diversity of commercially available brands of "Spirulina" supplements and the occurrence of other cyanobacterial and heterotrophic bacterial microorganisms in these products. In this s...