Posted on June 10, 2015
The various faculties at UP are making waves in their efforts in the field of conservation and are committed to promoting practices that make more sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources.
Posted on May 29, 2015
Prof Riëtte de Kock, of the Department of Food Science and the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW), has been involved in Sensory Food Science research since 1990.
Posted on May 21, 2015
An interfaculty research team at UP is focussing on schools as sites for social change and the training of teachers to impart health-related messages.
Posted on May 06, 2015
Prof John Taylor of the Department of Food Science, a research theme leader in the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being, has been elected as Honorary President of the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC).
Posted on April 07, 2015
Food safety is internationally recognised as one of the most important risks to public health and food security.
Posted on March 17, 2015
The one million Euro AFGROLAND project was launched this week at a project team workshop. This ambitious project (African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics), in the context of global agro-food-energy system changes was awarded through a competitive international bidding...
Posted on March 11, 2015
Food safety research, challenges and cooperative extension were the topics that Professors Cathy Strohbehn and Lakshman Rajagopal shared with faculty staff members and postgraduate students attending the mini symposium on Food Safety Challenges and Opportunities during the last week of February.
Posted on February 23, 2015
Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.
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