The scientific work done by IATA-CSIC received an award at the 10th Food Science, Biotechnology & Safety Congress, Latin Food 2022, organized by the Mexican Association of Food Science and held November 16-18th in Puebla, Mexico. This work was under the title "Benchmarking of rice-based beverages", and won the first prize as an oral presentation in the area of Food Product Development and...
The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 23rd to the 26th of October at XVI Encontro de Química dos Alimentos in the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. The congress was focused on ‘Innovation on food sustainability, safety and quality’ and brought together more than a hundred of stakeholders to discuss recent and emerging issues, namely bioactive compounds, omics in food analysis, food...
The heat resistance of Bacillus cereus spores inoculated in a rice substrate supplemented with insect chitosan as an alternative antimicrobial was studied. Two concentrations of insect chitosan were considered in order to assess the role of the insect chitosan concentration during the heat process. Results of the study indicated that the DT values were higher in the substrate without chitosan...
The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 17 th November at 1st International Congress on Food, Nutrition & Public Health - Towards a sustainable future - ICFNH 2022, held by Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge in Lisbon. The ICFNH 2022 was addressed the sustainable food production and consumption, sustainable diets and human nutrition and impact of sustainable food and...
TRACE-RICE explained the "world of rice"; during the second edition of FIC.A -International Science Festival and take the opportunity for testing the consumer acceptance of innovative rice beverage. This event took place from the 10th to the 16th October 2022, at the Hub-ACT, Porto Salvo in Oeiras and was a truly international celebration of science and knowledge within society. For 7 days, the...
A new article for TRACE-RICE project: "Mycotoxins Contamination in Rice: Analytical Methods, Occurrence and Detoxification Strategies", has been published.
The prevalence of mycotoxins in the environment is associated with potential crop contamination, which results in an unavoidable increase in human exposure. Rice, being the second most consumed cereal worldwide, constitutes an important...