A UK-based food industry market research company was given the challenge to create the world's healthiest meal, incorporating as many scientifically-proven health claims as possible. As a further challenge, they were tasked with making it an airline meal. How do you think they did? And would you eat it?! More

The future of meat substitutes is getting brighter: Beyond Meat, a startup that manufactures protein-packed vegan meat products that purportedly taste and feel like real meat (but with no cholesterol or saturated fat) has some high profile backers, including Obvious Corporation, a company owned by Twitter's co-founders. So what's all the buzz about? More

The tomato genome has been decoded! Plant geneticists from 14 different countries spent the last nine years mapping the genetic makeup of the tomato, and have discovered that the tomato contains 31,760 genes - that's 7,000 more genes than a human being! More

There are a few techniques for getting the last few drops out of the ketchup bottle — storing the bottle upside-down, repeatedly hitting the "57" on the Heinz bottle logo — but none works as impressively as LiquiGlide, a new food-safe, slippery coating developed by a team of scientists at MIT. When it's used on the inside of a condiment bottle, ketchup and mayonnaise magically slide out, as you can see in the video demo below. More

Cilantro: you love it or you hate it. However, a new study finds it may not be as simple as that. This study, conducted by scientists at the University of Toronto, found that cilantro aversion varies dramatically between ethnic groups, and could have a genetic component. More

You know that feeling when you eat a spoonful of extra cold ice cream and suddenly a torturous pain spreads through your head? We've all experienced it. It's Ice Cream Week on The Kitchn, so what better time to get a little science lesson on brain freeze—or rather, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. More

Who: Middle West Spirits micro-distillery
What: High-quality artisanal spirits made from local Ohio ingredients
Where: Columbus, Ohio

If you wanted to make a hand-crafted liquor with a "sense of place," then vodka, the most neutral and flavorless spirit, would be an odd place to start. Brady Konya and Ryan Lang, founders of Middle West Spirits, laugh as they acknowledge this irony. "Artisan vodka" almost seems like a contradiction in terms but somehow, they have created a vodka that does indeed have a sense of location in its environment, and their OYO Vodka is not actually a flavorless, neutral spirit at all — it's something very different.

Come walk through the Middle West Spirits micro-distillery in Columbus, Ohio, and see what it takes to distill a great bottle of vodka — and more. More

Growing up, I would always laugh at my dad after he drank a beer or a glass of wine. He is Thai-Chinese and even one drink makes his face turn bright red. "You're red!" I'd say, pointing and laughing. It never stopped being funny.

Until the first time I drank alcohol. My face turned beet-red and felt feverishly hot. It wasn't funny at all. More

Dairy-adverse eaters no doubt understand how difficult it is to find a truly cheese-like vegan cheese. But why is it so hard? And have any food companies actually achieved it? More

I'm all for natural remedies; however, when faced with a bout of sickness, the last thing I think of is garlic. However, new research suggests that garlic, the humble cloves sitting in your cupboard, could be very effective at fighting bacterium that cause food-borne illness. More