Position: Senior research scientist, Plant & Food Research. Field: Phytochemical antioxidants. David was born in England and attended Wallington High School, near London, where he discovered ...
The food we eat can poison us. There are over 200 known diseases that can be transmitted by food. Bacteria or viruses are the main cause of food poisoning. Food poisoning is usually the result of ...
Cheesemaking is the controlled process of removing water from milk. This process concentrates the milk’s protein, fat and other nutrients and increases its shelf life. Cheesemaking is one of the ...
In this activity, students investigate a range of cheeses to identify their characteristics and determine how these different characteristics are created. Purpose This activity will enable ...
In this activity, students learn how to identify potential safety hazards in a cheesemaking process. They learn how these can be minimised or eliminated to prevent contamination by foreign ...
In this activity, students investigate how variations in processing cheese curd impact on the final cheese characteristics. As an extension, students learn how these cheese characteristics relate ...
Students develop knowledge of prototype taewa products and design a label that reflects the cultural value and specified market for the product. Purpose Understand the attributes and benefits of ...
In this unit, students investigate trends and drivers and what may be possible and preferable attributes for new fruit varieties in the future. Purpose To understand the influences currently ...
Students develop knowledge of new technology that enables fish oil to be added to food without a fishy taste or smell and design an advertisement to promote an omega-3 enriched food. Purpose To ...
Plant & Food Research’s Dr David Stevenson explains what free radicals are and how they are produced. He outlines the role of cellular structures called mitochondria in the production of free ...
This animated video shows how the molecular structure of milk changes at various stages of cheese making.
The quality and freshness of milk used to make cheese directly correlates to the quality of the final product. Here, Miel Meyer, the General Manager and Cheesemaker at Meyer Gouda Cheese ...
This interactive explains the first steps in the process of making traditional Gouda cheese. Find out more about the final steps in the cheese making process in this related interactive.
This interactive explains the final processes involved in making traditional Gouda cheese. Find out more about the initial steps in the cheese making process in this related interactive.
This interactive shows some processes for managing cheese quality in traditional Gouda cheese production.
