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We've all watched enough sci-fi films to know what the food of the future is going to be like haven’t we? Will we be able to print out whatever food we desire? Or will we be taking in all of our required nutrition through the form of a simple pill? Farming tower blocks of hydroponic vegetables? Either way it’s going to be super high tech. Or is it? One thing is certain, the world needs a change in the way food is produced, mainly because in the near future there are going to be a lot more hungry mouths to...

A complete meal replacement system in powdered form is thought of as a relatively recent development, but these type of foods have a surprisingly long history, all the way back to the eighteenth century. We take a brief look at the history of such meal replacements from their very first inception to the latest and most advanced product to hit the market, our very own Huel. Pre Nineteenth Century - Pemmican The eighteenth century saw the first development of what we would now call a meal replacement. Invented by the native Indians of North America, Pemmican was eventually utilised by...

There are approximately 7 billion people living on planet earth. Of those, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) estimates that a staggering 870 million of them, that is one in eight, are starving, suffering from chronic undernourishment.You’d think with statistics like those, that there’s simply not enough food on the planet to feed everyone. However, this is far from the truth. The world produces easily enough food to feed everyone. This disparity is down to a variety of reasons, and one of the major ones is waste. Did you know that 33% of ALL food is wasted? (Source:...