Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans throw away between 30% and 40% of the nation’s food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Analysts are highlighting four underreported threats to the global food system—fertilizer shortages, water scarcity, export bans, and food waste—that could significantly impact future prices and ...

Fermentation is booming across the industry. But what do manufacturers do with the leftover biomass? Emerging research suggests microbial fibre could enable food products with targeted health benefits ...

Adding an electrical jolt to fermentation of industrial food waste speeds up the process and increases the yield of platform chemicals that are valuable components in a wide range of products, new ...

Making oncom is almost magical. It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the spores of a fungus called Neurospora intermedia. The bundle is left to ...

Do you find yourself tossing away the crusts of your bread? You’re not alone, but the scale of bread waste is staggering. Around 10% of the 185 million tonnes of bread baked worldwide each year is ...