Chowbotics Blog
This is where food and technology intersect.
Chowbotics Blog
This is where food and technology intersect.
Sugar Causes Diabetes (And Other Myths)
I’m not sure who named November National Diabetes Awareness Month, but it seems fitting, or maybe equally ironic that it falls squarely between Halloween and the holidays. Just as adults and kids alike begin to see their candy collection dwindle, the season of...
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How Can Globally-Inspired Menus Drive Health?
It’s 4pm and I’m still daydreaming about today’s lunch. In seconds, Sally, our robot, served up this Mediterranean-inspired meal: chef-prepared basmati rice, shredded carrots, grilled halloumi cheese and kalamata olives atop a bed of crunchy romaine finished with a...
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Sally the Robot – now with Mexican, Indian, Mediterranean, Chinese, French and Other Ethnic Food
When we first introduced Sally the Robot, she was focused on salads. Our team felt we should start off with something that was simple to make. We could always add more food types later. Later has arrived. We're excited to announce that Sally can now make grain bowls,...
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Brain Health: The Next Big Trend in Health
My mind is still blown after attending the Dataessentials’ Foodscapes event in Chicago a couple of weeks back. It was a fantastic meeting of the minds on technology, wellness, product innovation and the future of food. (As a side note, definitely check back for...
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The Rise of Food Allergies and Sensitivities (and what we can do about it)
Everywhere we look these days, we can find gluten-free this, dairy-free that. Gluten in particular has replaced fat from the 80’s and carbs from the 90’s as the thing to loathe in the 2010’s. A 2017 report showed that the global gluten-free food market value is...
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How Do You Define Healthy Eating?
Deciding how to approach food choice has gotten needlessly complicated. It’s easy to feel disempowered with all the misinformation and contradictions that abound on food, nutrition and health. With the exception of a few confirmed intolerances, I try to make all...
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How Will Technology Help Keep Our Food Safe?
48 Million. That’s one in 6 of us who get sick each year from foodborne illness. Unsafe food handling practices at a local salad bar has the potential to impact hundreds. Lapses early on in the supply chain can result in harmful products landing on grocery store...
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Chowbotics Aims to Reduce Food Waste
Summary: Here are the key points about food waste covered in this post in order of appearance: There are opportunities for reducing waste across every stage of a food’s life: Farming, processing, retail, and consumer. Individuals are the largest contributors to food...
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Food tips to fuel an all-nighter
Chowbotics is moving fast, working round the clock, as the team prepares for an important launch in Dallas, TX. Not an uncommon practice, if not lifestyle for the engineer to pull all-nighters, free from distractions that come with daylight hours. It’s a lifestyle...
read moreHacking Charisma…
When you have a company with multiple executives, you'll notice some have a X factor: they can attract amazing talent, their employees are easily influenced by them, customers love them and they close a lot more deals. Charisma is what I call this X factor. As...
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