Offshore aquaculture: the future of algae farming

06-Nov-2024 - Aquaculture is the world's fastest growing food sector. In order to meet the increasing demand, solutions are needed outside of coastal waters, which are polluted by shipping, tourism and the expansion of coastal structures. The international joint project "Ngā Punga o te Moana - Anchoring Our ...

How we perceive earthy odors

The unmistakable earthy smell of summer rain comes from the fragrance geosmin.

06-Aug-2024 - Geosmin is a volatile compound of microbial origin with a distinct "earthy" to "musty" odor that can affect the quality of drinking water and food. A research team led by Dietmar Krautwurst from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now ...

Optical sensor enables 100 percent quality control of ultra-thin barrier layers

30-May-2024 - A new type of sensor makes it possible for the first time to test functional barrier layers on plastic products at production speed. The Film-Inspect testing system was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in cooperation with plasma system specialist ...

Storage boxes should smell spoiled food

Using artificial senses to combat food waste

12-Mar-2024 - Keep-fresh boxes that provide information on how long their contents will remain edible and handy measuring devices that predict how long fruit and vegetables will remain fresh in the supermarket of the future: These are the concrete plans of a project in which the research team of sensor systems ...

New Project: Less Food Waste during Storage

19-Jun-2023 - Reducing spoilage of fresh foods such as apples during storage is the goal of a new project by the University of Bremen and the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) in Potsdam. The project will be supported with 600,000 euros until 2026. In order to meet consumer ...

Turning robots into skilled waiters

18-Jan-2023 - Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a model that enables a robot to serve tea and coffee faster and more safely than humans – with no sloshing. The mathematics behind the pendulum used in the ...

Pocket-size food scanner

Tackling food waste

07-Jan-2019 - According to a study by the environmental organization WWF Germany, ten million metric tons of food are thrown in the garbage every year in Germany despite still being edible. A mobile food scanner will allow consumers and supermarket operators in the future to test whether food items have gone ...

Making cheese & co. taste better

07-Nov-2018 - Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology, and the University of Hohenheim have developed a new methodical approach. It allows for the faster identification of flavor-giving protein fragments in foods such as cheese or yogurt, thus ...

Smart coat for the „coldest beer in the world“

25-May-2016 - Smart Packaging is the current trend – providing not only pure visual effects but rather additional useful information to customers. By order of the the world’s second largest brewer SABMiller, Scientists of Fraunhofer EMFT have developed an interactive temperature sensor and display system, ...