Cooking up Chemistry

How can chemists improve our food?

There is a lot of chemical research going on around food. In addition, we have a rapidly growing global population - and malnutrition is a huge global problem. We need to find more efficient ways to produce our food and maintain a high nutritional value, and chemists play an important role in this effort. They are working on ways to pervasively improve the health of the world's population. Chemists work to increase production yields, understand nutrient uptake, find better ways to preserve the food for efficient transports, find ways to use more of the available food, and throw less away - just to mention a few.