Miso soup

How to Prepare Miso Soup

June 24, 2019 smitsa 1

Miso soup (味噌汁, misoshiru) is a traditional Japanese soup consisting of a stock called “dashi” into which softened miso paste is mixed. Many ingredients are […]

Slices of seitan with a carrot and red onion.

Seitan

June 21, 2019 smitsa 1

Seitan is a very popular vegetarian food which is protein rich because it is a cooked form of wheat gluten. Seitan is used as a […]

annatto. The source of bixin and norbixin.

Annatto

June 19, 2019 smitsa 0

Annatto is the name of a colour but is also the name of the seeds that come from a tropical bush called Bixa orellana. The […]

Cactus plantation to raise the cochineal, an insect from which a red pigment is extracted.

Cochineal And Carmine

June 19, 2019 smitsa 0

Carminic acid is the colour extracted from the dried female coccid insect Dactylopius coccus costa (Coccus cacti L.). Carmine is the aluminium chelate of carminic […]

Huckleberries in full image.

Huckleberries

June 14, 2019 smitsa 0

Huckleberries are great sources of food colour. The juice from the berries has an intense purple hue which makes it suitable as a natural colour […]

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What is a Point Mutation?

June 14, 2019 smitsa 0

A point mutation, also known as a single nucleotide variation (SNV) or single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), is a type of genetic mutation that involves a […]