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  • Visiting professors from Iowa State University share expertise

    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.

  • Have your (low GI) cake and eat it

    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.

  • International expert on obesity speaks at UP

    Posted on February 16, 2015

    “Most problems in today’s society cannot be solved by a single discipline,” said Prof Sheryl Hendriks of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW).

  • Mail and Guardian chooses UP scientists as the voices of science

    Posted on September 29, 2014

    Two PhD candidates and one MSc candidate from UP’s Institutional Research Theme (IRT) on Food, Nutrition and Well-being were selected for this prestigious profile supplement published by M&G.

  • UP to collaborate on project to address hunger and undernutrition

    Posted on September 16, 2014

    The University of Pretoria (UP) will be one of the institutions collaborating in a series of projects representing the best ideas and strategies from around the world to address hunger and undernutrition in some of the world’s most unforgiving agricultural regions.

  • A new generation of research-driven leaders in agriculture

    Posted on August 28, 2014

    Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being students, benefitting from the BASF-Becker Underwood had the opportunity to give representatives from Becker Underwood, BASF and DAFF an update on the progress made with their research projects.

  • IFNuW leads a national accreditation initiative and opens career paths for students

    Posted on August 01, 2014

    IFNuW acknowledges the importance of having accredited facilities and systems in the food industry to provide adequate food safety standards, and for this reason it has partnered with the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS).

  • A biscuit brings hope

    Posted on June 17, 2014

    Postgraduate students develop a magic bicuits

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