It is my belief that food science and technology is the world’s oldest scientific discipline. People first learned how to grow and harvest food, then how to transform, preserve, and store it safely. Thus, food science and technology traces its roots to antiquity, and it is likely the mother of all sciences. In turn, IFT’s mission is “to advance the science of food.”
As the United States-based scientific society for food science and technology, and through its membership in the International Union…