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Food House
food house is the American hyperpop duo of producer Gupi (Spencer Hawk) and vocalist Fraxiom, formed after meeting in 2017. Known for "Thos Moser" (2020), the debut album food house on Dog Show Records, and the self-released 2025 follow-up two house.
Food hygiene
Food hygiene: all conditions and measures ensuring food safety and suitability across the food chain, per Codex. Covers HACCP controls, contamination prevention, the 1963 Codex Alimentarius, and WHO's estimate of 866 million annual foodborne illness cases.
Food impaction
Food impaction: forcible wedging of food between adjacent teeth during chewing (ICD-11 DA0E.4), also esophageal food bolus impaction. Vertical vs horizontal types, proximal contact loss as leading cause, endoscopic retrieval for esophageal cases.
Food industry
Food industry: the companies handling production, processing, preservation, packaging, and distribution of food within the agri-food sector. Key facts: EU agri-food employs 16 million, contributes €603 billion; global food trade USD 1.9 trillion (2023); food and beverage industry emits 20-30% of global GHG.
Food industry in China
The food industry in China, one of the world's largest, transforms farm output into packaged and prepared food; food processing alone was valued at $1.26 trillion in 2024.
Food industry in India
The food industry in India is one of the world's largest food processing sectors, contributing 7.66% of manufacturing output and employing 12.41% of the organized manufacturing workforce in fiscal 2023.
Food insecurity screening
Food insecurity screening is the practice of asking patients validated questions to identify households lacking reliable access to enough food, most often in primary care, pediatric, and emergency settings.
Food Inspection
Food inspection: official government examination of food facilities, farms, and imports to verify compliance with safety law. Split in the U.S. between FDA and USDA's FSIS; risk-based, HACCP-influenced, with FSMA frequency mandates and documented foreign-inspection shortfalls.
Food irradiation
Food irradiation treats approved foods with ionizing radiation (gamma rays, e-beams, x-rays) to kill pathogens and insects and extend shelf life; FDA-approved since 1963, regulated as a food additive, labeled with the Radura symbol.
Food Junction Management (FJM)
Food Junction Management (FJM), also known as Food Junction, is a Singapore and Malaysia food-court operator sold by the Lippo group to BreadTalk Group in 2019 for S$80 million.
Food libel laws
Food libel laws, or veggie libel laws, are state agricultural disparagement statutes creating liability for false statements about food safety; enacted after the 1989 Alar scare in about thirteen states and tested in the Oprah Winfrey and pink slime cases.
Food Lion
Food Lion is an American supermarket chain founded 1957 in Salisbury, N.C. as Food Town, now an Ahold Delhaize USA brand with 1,100+ stores in 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, over 82,000 associates, and a low-price, hunger-relief-focused omnichannel grocery identity.
Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel devoted to food and cooking, launched from New York in November 1993 by Reese Schonfeld. Now under Warner Bros. Discovery, it shifted from instructional shows to competitions and created the celebrity chef phenomenon.
Food Network Star
Food Network Star (originally The Next Food Network Star), an American reality cooking competition on Food Network from 2005, testing culinary and on-camera skills; the prize is the winner's own Food Network show; its best-known winner is Guy Fieri, season 2 (2006).
Food of The Bear
Food of The Bear covers the dishes of FX's series The Bear: the Italian beef sandwich of the Original Beef of Chicagoland, the fine-dining pivot, culinary producer Courtney Storer, Matty Matheson, real Chicago restaurants, and chef-assessed accuracy.
Food packaging
Food packaging: materials used to package or wrap food in direct or indirect contact. Also called food-contact materials. Functions, materials, active and intelligent systems, FDA and EU regulation, and life-cycle environmental evidence.
Food pairing
Food pairing is the practice of combining foods and beverages for harmony or contrast in flavor. Key ideas: the flavor-compound-sharing hypothesis, positive pairing in Western cuisines, negative pairing in East Asian and Indian cuisines, expert pairing principles, and computational tools like FlavorGraph.
Food porn
Food porn, also called gastro-porn or #foodporn, is a term for glamorized, highly appetizing food imagery, coined by Michael Jacobson in 1979 after Cockburn's 1977 gastro-porn, now a widespread social media hashtag and scholarly concept.
Food Preferences
Food preferences: stable liking and wanting toward specific foods, rooted in innate sweet/salt preference, bitter rejection, and neophobia, shaped by early learning, measured with tools like the 36-item Food Choice Questionnaire across 40+ countries.
Food presentation
Food presentation, or plating, is the visual arrangement of food on dishware. Plate size, stacking style, plate color, and context measurably change liking, portion perception, and willingness to pay.
Food preservation
Food preservation, also called food conservation, is the set of treatments that extend the shelf life of fresh foods and prevent spoilage by harmful bacteria.
Food processing
Food processing: transformation of raw agricultural products (grains, meats, fruits, milk) into ingredients and processed foods using equipment, energy, and tools; spans 400,000 years from fire to canning, pasteurization, HPP, NOVA classification, and AI-driven inspection.
Food processing industry
Food processing industry: businesses transforming agricultural raw materials into food, from home-scale to large-scale operations; covers preservation methods, value chains, US regulation, non-thermal technologies, and the NOVA ultra-processed food health debate.
Food processor
Food processor: motorized kitchen appliance with interchangeable blades and disks for chopping, slicing, shredding, and kneading; invented as the Robot-Coupe by Pierre Verdun (1963) and popularized in America by Carl Sontheimer's Cuisinart (1973).
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), a non-IgE-mediated food allergy of infants causing delayed vomiting and diarrhea, diagnosed clinically or by oral food challenge, resolving in 85% by age 5.
Food pyramid (nutrition)
Food pyramid (nutrition): triangular food-guide graphic, first devised in Sweden 1974, best known as the USDA Food Guide Pyramid (1992, 6-11 grain servings), replaced by MyPyramid 2005 and MyPlate 2011, revived inverted in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines.
Food Quality
Food quality: the total attributes giving a food value to consumers, spanning safety, nutrition, sensory, and origin. Measured via Codex definitions, meal and diet quality indices, nutrient profiling, sensory and instrumental analysis, and HACCP-based regulation.
Food safety
Food safety, also called food sanitation, is the handling, preparation, and storage of food to prevent contamination and foodborne illness, causing over 200 diseases and 1.52 million deaths yearly.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (भारतीय खाद्य सुरक्षा और मानक प्राधिकरण)
FSSAI (भारतीय खाद्य सुरक्षा और मानक प्राधिकरण) is India's statutory food safety regulator under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, established 2008, headquartered in Delhi under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, setting standards, licensing food businesses via FoSCoS, and enforcing with State authorities.
Food science
Food science, also called bromatology, is the multidisciplinary study of the physical, microbial, and chemical makeup of food and the processes that transform it into safe, nutritious products.