Articles

Here we sort all of our articles by a variety of topics. Most articles break down to career advice, technical advice, creative advice, entrepreneurial advice and student advice.

Enjoy!

Career Advice – Advice for anyone who wants to try something new in their career

Career Options

What is Food Science? A Beginner’s Guide

Is Food Science Hard?

Why Food Safety Auditing Might Be For You

Why Food Regulatory Might be the Career Path for You

Food Industry Jobs and What They Generally Mean

How I Got My Job In Product Development

Food Science vs Nutrition

Food Science vs Culinary Art

How to Get Promoted

Why You Shouldn’t Be a Food Scientist

Laid off or Let Go

Why Should We Hire You?

First Job Interview in 20 Years? Here’s How to Nail It

Why The World Needs Food Scientists

Generalist vs Specialist

Sustainability is Here To Stay 

When To Leave Your Job

How to Be A CEO

How to Dominate Trade Shows

Why Every Corporate Food Scientist Should Go to The Fancy Food Show

How to Network at the IFT Expo

What to Focus On in Expo West (2018)

Tips to Make Your Expo West Less Stressful (2019)

What I Learned at the Protein Trends and Technologies Seminar

The Good Food Institute Conference: The Future is Exciting

Why a Specialty Course Might be For You

Supply Side West: The Best Show for Neutraceuticals 

Research Chef’s Association Conference: A Family-Like Atmosphere

Another Expo West Trend Report (2019)

IAFP: A Microcosm of Microbiology Experts

Smart Kitchen Summit: SKS for Short

On Leadership

How to Be a Naturally-Flavored Leader

Collaboration versus Competition

How to be Super Outgoing and Confident

Tips for Setting Your Goals

When to Say Yes and When to Say No

Myers Briggs in the Work Place: How to Identify People Who Don’t Think Like You

Myers Briggs in the Work Place: Extroversion vs Introversion

Myers Briggs in the Work Place: Sensory vs Intuition

Myers Briggs in the Work Place: Thinking vs Feeling

Myers Briggs in the Work Place: Judging vs Percieving 

Life Lessons My CSO Taught Me

Public Speaking Tips

Is This Worth My Time? Thoughts on Volunteering

How to Communicate Extrapolated Science

Impostor Syndrome

Fake It Till You Make It

Self-Help/ Self-Care

Tips On Being Hopeful and Not Super Stressed

How to Deal With ME

Self-Care Tips for the Professional

How to Relocate to Another City for Another Job

Testing Stress

A Perspective on Haters

Fear of Missing Out

Uncategorized

Lesson’s From Jeff’s Dream Job Offer

Thanks Dad

Technical Advice – Tips and Tricks to make you a better Food Professional

Trends and where to find them

A Few Plant Protein Trends That Will Dominate the Next Few Years

The Perils of Plant Proteins 

My Big Fat Food Media Diet 

Why We’re Training a Flavor Chemist

How to Find and Implement New Trends from Your City

The Newest (Hidden) Technology and Trends in the Food Industry

Top 5 Opportunities in Food 2019

The One Trend That Stuck This Week

Impossible vs Beyond: The Battle of the Burgers

The Seeds Have Been Planted for Meat and Dairy Alternatives 

Consumers Support Stronger Supplement Regulations

Product Development Advice

Clean Label Development Tips From a Lazy Developer

Tips on Tasting

Tips on Formulating from Bench-Top to Scale-Up

How to be Proud of Your Product

How to Make a 7 Star Product

How Sales and Marketing Helps your Career No Matter What

How to Sell to Technical People as a B2B Salesperson

How to be A Subject Matter Expert

The Product Development Process

Barriers to Entry in the Food Industry

The Five Biggest Mistakes of New Product Development

Product Development Pitfalls

Raw Materials

Marketing Mishaps

Timelines

Iterations

Uncategorized

5 Food Podcasts I had no idea about until I started Podcasting (2017)

5 New Podcasts I’m Listening to About Food (2018)

The Top 2 Reasons People Get Sick By The Food Industry

Creative Advice – Advice that will help you be more creative

3 Tips On How to be Innovative In Your Career

5 Exercises to be Innovative and Creative

My Book List for Making You a Better Creative

How One Year of Podcasting Changed My Life

How Two Years of Podcasting Changed My Life

How Three Years of Podcasting Changed My Life

I’m a Fanatic and You Can Be Too

What I Learned Working in the Health and Wellness Industry for 2 Years

How to Learn Without School

How Cooking Helps With Creativity

The Situation of Choice

Vital Skills to Kick Off 2019

Book Review: The Wizard and The Prophet

A Tale of Two Projects

On Imitations

Fact vs Belief

Entrepreneurial Advice – Advice for people who want some inspiration in starting their own business

Adam’s Startup Journey: The Better Meat Co.

Start Something Now!

When to Give Up and When to Not Give Up

Why I Left the Best Job in The World

A Better Bet

The Phoenix Years

It’s the Journey That Matters

Let’s Step Back

Just Enjoy It

A Decade In Review

Blogging and Media

How to Make a Professionally Popular Blog in Your Spare Time

How to Make a Professionally Popular Blog in Your Spare Time – Anniversary Edition

Tips on How to Make A Great Podcast

How One Year of Podcasting Changed My Life

How Two Years of Podcasting Changed My Life

How to Get Engagement on Linkedin

How to Convince People to Read Your Stuff

How to Write Your Origin Story

Social Media and Influencer Strategies: Reach vs Depth

Social Media and Influencer Strategies: In Person Matters

Biggest Fans

Building Online Platforms to Promote Food Science

When To Do Things For Free

How Writing Can Change Your Life

Food Industry

How to Create an Award Winning Restaurant in 2 Months

How to Rock it in Retail and Restaurants

On Startups and Small Businesses: Incubators, Mentors, and Masterminds

How to Make a Lasting Impression on Your Product

How to Be an Intrapreneur 

You Can Actually Eat Everything

On Entrepreneurship

Uncategorized

People I’m Thankful For This Year

Groups I’m Grateful for in 2018

Student Advice – Advice for students and graduates 

On Graduate School

4 Things to Research When Deciding to Go To Graduate School

10 Things I Learned From Interviewing Graduate Students (Part 1)

10 Things I Learned From Interviewing Graduate Students (Part 2)

On Getting a Job

How to Hustle an Internship in College

How to Meet People in the FDA

How to Get a Full Time Job From an Internship

Resume Tips for Beginning Food Scientists

Cover Letter Tips for Beginning Food Scientists

Interview Tips for Beginning Food Scientists

Actual interview Questions from Actual Companies

On Making the Most of College

What to do Your First Semester in College

How to Get Free Food In College

How To Start a Product Development Team in College

Do Grades Matter? 

Questions and Answers from a Student

Dear Ambitious Students – Don’t Disappear 

College Speeches and Webinars

A Remote Speech for Batangas University in the Philippines

Adam Talks with the University of Arizona

Flavor Investigator

Articles about the flavors in the world written by Veronica Hislop

Vanilla

Chocolate

Strawberry

Coffee

Lemon

Onions

Peanuts

Dill

Sage

Wasabi

Bananas

Cinnamon

Rose

Peas

Mangos

Coconut

Taste

Cotton Candy

Dark Cherry

Ginger

Lime

Watermelon

Lavender

Pumpkin Spice

Carrots

Saffron

Maple Syrup

Nutmeg

Hazelnut

Bell Peppers

Pistachios

Parsley

Peppermint

Gingerbread

Champagne

Garlic

Bay Leaf

Black Pepper

Turmeric

Green Tea

Food Science Global – Perspectives from Food Scientists around the world

Nigeria

Ghana

Malaysia

India

Colombia

Canada