Opinion: Putting all foods on the same table: Achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting

This protocol presents a scalable method for converting food waste into biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics. It utilizes arrested anaerobic digestion for food waste pretreatment, halophilic microbial fermentation for PHA biosynthesis, and a chemical-free downstream process for PHA...

Source: Laboratories of Margaret Workman and Kimberly Frye - Depaul University
Genetic modification of foods has been a controversial issue due to debated concerns over health and environmental safety. This experiment demonstrates technical understanding of how food DNA is genetically identified, allowing for educated decision making about the safety and potential dangers of using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food supplies.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is used to amplify food DNA...

Here, we present a protocol to prepare DNA samples from food and environmental microbiomes for concerted detection and subtyping of Salmonella through quasimetagenomic sequencing. The combined use of culture enrichment, immunomagnetic separation (IMS), and multiple displacement amplification (MDA) allows effective concentration of Salmonella genomic DNA from food and environmental...

This article describes a set of methods for the measurement of food related motivation and food related goal values in...

Feeding difficulties are a common problem for children with developmental disorders, including autism, and behavioral interventions often include escape extinction. Recent research has begun to evaluate treatments that do not include escape extinction. This manuscript describes a multicomponent treatment package that does not use escape extinction to treat feeding...

We present a protocol for a two-choice feeding assay for flies. This feeding assay is fast and easy to run and is suitable not only for small-scale laboratory research, but also for high-throughput behavioral screens in...