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Reducing food waste is essential in a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been increasing rapidly since 2014, while tons of edible food is lost and/or wasted every day. Food waste undermines the sustainability of our food chain. When food is wasted, all the resources used to produce that food - including water, land, energy, labor and capital - are wasted. In addition, the disposal of food waste and waste in landfills leads to greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change. Food waste can also negatively impact food safety and food availability and contribute to increased...

Olive oil is a basic product of our country both in commercial and nutritional terms and has been the subject of multiple studies on its beneficial properties. In recent years, extra virgin olive oil has been chosen for conducting experiments since it shows higher percentages of phenolic components, namely those used, oleocanthal and oleasin. Oleocanthal and oleasin have attracted the interest of the scientific community in recent years with the results already being very significant. The value of the research in this particular subject is particularly great if you take into account that in the midst of a crisis in...

  Comfort food or pleasure food. No matter how you say it, what is certain is that we are talking about traditional dishes of each country, which speak directly to the heart of its inhabitants.  The great thing about comfort food is that it is always there for us and never lets us down. The brain responds to happiness and stress relief by continuing to crave "comfort" foods. To define it, we can say that it exists to cheer us up, as it acts as a booster.  When we eat, we receive positive reinforcement – ​​on the one hand we...

Trahana is a pasta made from flour and milk and has a granular and irregular shape. The grains are about 2-3 millimeters in diameter.  Hill and Briar agree that trachana is related to the Greek word trakton. Dolby (1996) links it to the Greek tragos/traganos, described (and condemned) in Galen's Geoponika 3.8  Trahana is made by mixing flour, yogurt and sour milk, and optionally cooked vegetables, salt, semolina, spices (mainly tarhana herb), allowing the mixture to ferment, dry and usually result in grinding and sifting. Fermentation produces lactic acid and other compounds giving Trahana its characteristic sour taste and good...