Dining on Data: How APIs Are Transforming The Way We Eat

APIs are transforming the way we eat. Whether it’s at home, or when you are dining out, consumers (and developers) are empowered like never before. The combination of a great user experience powered by valuable data will lead to some revolutionary new culinary apps.

Infographic of the Week: Organic Food & Beverage Sales Reach $29.2 Billion in 2011

Organic Trade Association forecasts for 2012 and 2013 indicate that organic food and non-food sales will continue to grow nine percent or higher annually

Building Food Apps: The Importance of a Data Framework

While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any solution must begin with a strong, malleable framework for structuring and storing the data.

ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions

ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.

FAO’s Shiny New Agricultural Data & Information Sharing Tool

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The Agricultural Development Assistance Mapping (ADAM) tool is a platform that gathers information from diverse databases about agricultural development needs, objectives, in-country activities, and funding modalities, and aggregates

From SXSW to the White House, Food Data a Trending Topic

It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science and health. Data is also a necessary tool for lawmakers to produce smarter policy that speaks to the needs of the people

Get Your Local Farm & Food Data: Local Dirt & Locavore Launch Widget & API

Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farms, farmers markets and CSAs in their combined databases, which you are now able to integrate into your own website or mobile app

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Data

Yesterday, the USDA launched Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass, a new digital report that details USDA support for local and regional food projects. The wealth of data and case studies are a valuable asset for those who want to help local food economies grow

Innovator Video: The Future of Grocery – An Interactive Cheese, Meat & Fish Counter

In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detailed product, origin and recipe information about food items

BAMCO’s Role in Making New Farm & Food Data Available

Bon Appétit Management Company, which operates cafés for companies including Twitter, Yahoo! and eBay, announced Tuesday the rollout of a comprehensive farm animal welfare policy that has the potential to make significantly more information about growing practices available. As an industry leader with significant purchasing power, these commitments set an important precedent for increased transparency through certification, and with it an opportunity to open up data that has been largely unavailable

Ramen Data: Mouth to Anus

Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.

Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin’s newest project M2A™:The Fantastic Voyage offers a graphic look at how the gastrointestinal tract (GI) processes a meal of Top Ramen versus a meal of hand made noodles

Supermarket API Could Save Companies $100K+ Annually

Any company building apps or platforms to improve the consumer shopping experience knows that grocery product data is EXPENSIVE, costing $100,000+ annually to license. This data is often poorly structured and out of date, forcing those who purchase it to spend significant resources cleaning and restructuring it. Now, AisleFinder, a mobile app and website that helps consumers create a shopping list and identify their location in their local supermarket, is making that data available for free via their Supermarket

Cheese? Lobster? What Would Your Last Meal Be? [Infographic]

“You’re about to die, what’s your last meal?” Anyone who signs up for Studiofeast’s mailing list must answer this question. At the end of the year, the cooking collective then hosts a Last Meal dinner inspired by the responses.

Inside Look at Ziplist’s Approach to User Acquisition & Monetization

Grocery list and recipe search startup Ziplist uses a cadre of advanced technologies to make shopping and marketing easier and personalized, including natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition. While the startup is well positioned to increase user acquisition, profitability is less certain

Meat #5: Are Grazing by GPS & Virtual Fencing on the Horizon?

Mac Magruder had his way, he would be able to control the grazing of his grass-fed herd by GPS. And while the technology for such a virtual fence is on the drawing board, Magruder might have to wait a while to use it on his own cattle