Why major in food science? Food scientists are working to solve one of the world’s greatest challenges — feeding the world, studying how to create new food products and bring them to market. The steps ...

IFT President Daubert examines the evolving food science education landscape and IFT’s efforts to prepare future industry ...

Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long before maize arrived in the region Eli Wizevich Hoping to stave off a ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine and is part of National Geographic’s Future of Food initiative, a special five-year project that seeks to show how ...