Food & Healthy Diet

What impact did the introduction of milk to our diets have on our early society? By examining Neolithic artefacts and bones, an EU-funded project has contributed to our understanding of how Europeans began to abandon their hunter-gathering lifestyle in favour of farming.

As part of its work, the LeCHe research network found milk residues trapped in mud-made cheese-strainers dating from around 7 000 years ago. The pottery, hidden in archaeological sites in Poland, hosts the earliest prehistoric evidence for cheese-making.

What’s in Horizon 2020 for you? What are the new calls and how to apply for funding?
We invite you to the Info Day 2014 in Brussels, on 17 January, to get first-hand information on the new EU funding instrument and to find the answer to these and many other questions.

An EU-funded cooperation project between India and several EU countries could transform food processing by products into food ingredients and new food products by providing sustainability and competitiveness to the food industry.

As a third of the fruit and vegetables Europe consumes are grown in greenhouses, protected horticulture represents a sizeable and growing proportion of the industry.

EUPHOROS project helped cut farmers’ energy requirements by half and provided innovative solutions for reducing water, nutrients and pesticides use and implementing low-energy climate controls.

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is one of the most abundant toxins that contaminates food and is deemed to be a 'health risk' by experts. OTA suppresses the immune system and can even cause various forms of cancer in both humans and animals.