Food Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare. Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons. Vegetarians choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees. Vegans do not consume any foods that are or contain ingredients from an animal source. Adulteration is a legal term meaning that a food product fails to meet the legal standards. One
German Institute of Food Technologies German Institute of Food Technologies The German Institute of Food Technologies (ger. "Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e.V." - DIL) is a non-governmental and self-financing research institute supported by more than 120 members from fields of food production, mechanical engineering, process engineering and metrology. The DIL was founded in 1983 and is situated in the county of Osnabrück, one of the regions with the highest numbers of full-time employees and highest density of food industry enterprises in Germany. The research focus of the DIL is to develop innovative methods for food production, quality assurance and process optimization. Beneficiaries of new insights