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Latest Episodes

EP 65: Talking With a Cultivated Meat Innovator, MAHA at IFT FIRST
August 11, 2025

Bianca L, a cell biologist and head of special projects at Mission Barns, shares the story of the groundbreaking startups path to the creation of cell-cultivated pork fat. Martin Hahn, a regulatory attorney and partner at Hogan Lovells, and Maha Tahiri,

EP 64: Open Innovation for Food System Transformation, Decoding Consumers’ Food Behaviors
July 21, 2025

EIT Foods Adam Adamek shares why open innovation is essential to solving food system challengesand how startups, corporates, and researchers can collaborate more effectively to turn breakthrough science into real-world impact. June Jo Lee explains how f

Omnivore Presents: SciDish | JULY 2025: The Scientific Skinny on Sugar Reduction
July 14, 2025

Consumers havent soured on the low- and no-sugar trend. Food and ingredient manufacturers are heeding the call, looking to reformulate or develop reduced and zero-sugar product lines at a record pace. In this episode, Renee Leber and Lisa Sanders provide

EP 63: Have We Made Food Too Tasty?, Exploring the MAHA Report
July 07, 2025

Behavioral science researcher Dave Lundahl proposes a solution to the problem of food product hyper-palatability, which is believed to be a significant contributor to the obesity crisis. In the wake of the recent high-profile Make America Healthy Again re

EP 62: Time to Act on Traceability, Novel Technology Could Improve Wheat Processing
June 23, 2025

Food safety experts Jennifer McEntire and Tejas Bhatt discuss the FDAs traceability rule delay, whats still holding the industry back, and why companies need to act nownot wait. Passionate about reducing food waste, a Texas A&M University graduate stud

Omnivore Presents: SciDish | June 2025: Food Safety 2025: Insights on Recalls, Risks, and Resilience
June 16, 2025

In just the past several months, weve seen a sharp uptick in food recallsaffecting everything from leafy greens to frozen meals. And its not just one culpritListeria, Salmonella, E. coli, and even viruses like norovirus and parasites like cyclospora a

EP 61: Riding the AI Wave, The Iron Man Speaks
June 09, 2025

The AI era is unquestionably here, and its advancing at lightning speed. In this episode, AI futurist and IFT FIRST keynote speaker Steve Brown discusses the unprecedented opportunities that AI offers, its benefits for the global food system, and why i

EP 60: African Food Trend Heats Up, Cornell Scientists Serve Up Food Solutions, Hitting the Sweet Spot with Sugar Reduction
May 19, 2025

In this episode, we chat with Yemisi Awosan, founder and CEO of Egunsi Foods, a Harlem, New York-based food company focused on producing ready-to-eat African food derived from classic West African dishes, to find out more about this flavorful and trendin

Omnivore Presents: SciDish | May 2025
May 12, 2025

MAY 2025: Insider Tips on Launching Your Food Science Career Get the latest insights from the food science and technology community in the Omnivore Presents: SciDish podcast. In this episode, executive search expert Moira McGrath, HP Hood senior manager o

EP 59: Building a Better Food Ecosystem, Inside Aseptic Processing, GRAS Reform
May 05, 2025

Global nutrition and food systems leader Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball shares her passion for creating a healthy food ecosystem that connects the dots between the health of people and the health of the planet. Consulting food scientist Rick Stier explains the hi