Method of Tracking a Foods Expiration Date

Design studio To-Genkyo proposes a new method of tracking a foods expiration date by using a universally recognizable visual. The new design keeps people honest by changing colours based on the level of ammonia the food emits as it ages. After it has passed its expiration date the bar-code is no longer readable, making it impossible to sell.


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Salad Stats: The Financial Impact of a Fresh Favorite

What’s your favorite: iceberg, romaine or red leaf? Tomatoes or cucumbers? Avocado or hard-boiled egg? Ranch or blue cheese? Salad lovers “grapple” with these questions daily. Way to go! In this infographic, mint.com give you the stats on this fresh favorite.

via www.mint.com

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Nutritional Tricks for the Developing World

Proper diet and nutrition are key to children's well-being, keeping them healthy and supporting cognitive development. A diet without nutrients like iron or folic acid can have serious effects. But in the developing world, the correct nutrients aren't always in children's diets. Adding those nutrients to the available food—even to foods in which they don't naturally occur—can be a huge boost to public health. It's a lesson we learned in the United States long ago, and one we need to apply to the rest of the world.

via awesome.good.is

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The Double Food Pyramid

The newly formed Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition unveiled a new food pyramid last week, showing the environmental costs of the more familiar-looking food pyramid. No real surprise, then, that the inverted environmental food pyramid illustrates how the most environmentally-friendly foods also tend to be the healthiest.

via www.barillacfn.com
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This Is How Sausage Is Made

It may have been Otto Von Bismarck who first said that "laws are like sausages; it is better not see them being made." Regardless of whether Bismarck was the saying's originator, he's probably right. However, in the spirit of our recent flood of how-meats-are-made posts, allow us to direct you to the following (possibly offensive) infographic.

via www.foodcoupons.net

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