

High pressure treatment leads to better berries
Scientists at Nofima have during the past three years been exposing food to extremely high pressures, to determine whether the pressure treatment gives healthier, safer and more tasty food. Berries are one food for which the treatment is successful. Here are the facts: Food in the shops has often been heat treated to eliminate bacteria and increase its shelf life. The heating process causes some foods to lose quality. By exposing the food to high pressure (2,000-6,000 bar) it

HPP juice rising to the top on Google
The HPP juice industry is booming. On store shelves, cold-pressed blends soak up more and more retail space every week, and they’re edging thermal and chemically treated foods off the shelf. But on Google, the rush toward HPP juice is even more evident. Using Google Trends – a graph that displays the popularity of search terms over time – you can see the explosive growth for yourself from the diagram below. Take “cold pressed juice,” for example. Relatively unknown – or unsea