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The Science Behind Your Salad shines a spotlight on the innovation, technology, digital and sustainability for healthy food made by BASF in Agriculture.
Before sunrise in central Kenya, green beans are packed for European supermarkets while, on the same morning, women carry leafy greens to se...
In this special episode of The Science Behind Your Salad , we take you inside the World Food Prize and the Borlaug Dialogue, the gathering i...
Food is also what connects farming to human health and our natural environment. In this episode of The Science Behind Your Salad , we ask yo...
Social media has given farmers the perfect way to share the many joys, challenges and the daily realities of farming with people interested...
Feeding humanity in the future brings a complex set of interconnected challenges. What's abundantly clear is that, over the coming decades,...
This episode of The Science Behind Your Salad from BASF visits Spain, Portugal and Egypt in a quest to discover how olive crops will be affe...
Our volatile climate will impact the way we cook and the way we eat. And so, farming needs to adapt, eating needs to adapt, and how we cook,...
Whether we’re buying a punnet of fruit, a freshly made burrito or a can of tomatoes, we take it for granted that the food is safe and free o...
There is a huge variety of grains, from quinoa to spelt, from bulgur wheat to pearl barley, from barley to rye. Barley used to feed livestoc...
The wettest country in the world is Columbia, which receives over 3200 ml of rain annually and the driest nation, Egypt, receives just 18 ml...
More than 3 billion cups of coffee are drunk every day but how did the bean inside a fruit become synonymous with kick starting our mornings...
Weeds are plants that are growing in the wrong place. Certain species can totally devastate farmers crops, resulting in huge losses of both...
Improving the sustainability of agriculture extends far beyond the production of food, as farmers share the global challenges of climate cha...
Sweet and juicy, plump and delicious: In this episode of The Science Behind Your Salad we’re telling the story behind the production and inn...
If food waste could be represented as its own country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind China and the United Sta...
Vegetables are at the heart of a healthy diet. They are packed with vitamins and minerals and play an essential role in our physical and men...
The first traces of wine production date back some 9,000 years to parts of the Middle East. Georgia is known for making some of the earliest...
In this bonus episode, we’ll explore the meaning of grapes from a seasonal perspective. During the holidays, grapes play an important role –...
Loved by Ernest Hemingway in a sandwich, around 4.5 milliion tonnes of onions are grown globally each year. While Hemingway ate his onions r...
Not every crop relating to what we eat is edible. The table dressing also plays a valuable roll with crisp white tablecloths and beautifully...
We are currently facing significant challenges to our food supply. A global pandemic, a war on the ground in the breadbasket of Europe, a vo...
Waves of golden flowers can currently be seen rippling in the wind across many parts of the world as the oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) ha...
In this episode we discover the story behind the sweet, crisp, crunch of the salad leaves. From iceberg to Lollo Rosso, from radicchio to en...
Every year 350 million tonnes of soybean are grown. More than three-quarters of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production...
In this surprise bonus episode, we'll talk about the meaning of wheat from a seasonal perspective: Different Christmas food habits around th...
In this, the second episode exploring the importance of wheat as a crop globally, we discover the ways in which farmers can safeguard their...
The story of wheat begins 10,000 years ago and becomes the tale of the biggest crop on the planet. Wheat covers more of the earth than any o...
Seeds are the building blocks of agriculture. You can have the perfect land, the most fertile soil and optimum growing conditions, the perfe...
In the second episode devoted to one of the biggest crops on the planet: rice, Jane Craigie explores the way in which rice production in Aus...
Rice is staple food for over half the world's population, and when you think of how the crop grows, an image of shimmering paddy fields, wit...
Jane Craigie traces the origins of the humble tomato from a small hairy specimen to a juicy plump red fruit, and discovers the science and t...
The Science Behind Your Salad will shine a spotlight on the innovation, technology, digital and sustainability for healthy food made by BASF...