Imperial Fringe: Food of tomorrow

Imperial researchers serve up an evening on the future of food and how we will feed the next generation, at this Imperial Fringe event.

Visitors to this event will have opportunities to:

- Get your green fingers dirty and learn how scientists within the Institute of Chemical Biology CDT and AGRI-net are hoping to bring new life to infertile soils
- Meet the crop killers that threaten our basic food staples and the plant pathologists trying to understand how to block their attacks
- Taste a cake designed with science. Indulge your sweet tooth with the latest creation from the famous Tattooed Bakers, made with appetite suppressing supplements from our Nutrition and Dietetics Research Group that could revolutionise dieting
- Learn the truth behind the snap of your favourite chocolate bar and how much it contributes to the pleasure of eating them with our Soft Solids engineering team
- Guess the weight of bacteria in your gut before meeting the family of micro-organisms living in all of us that influence our eating habits with our Department of Surgery and Cancer and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
- Test out a new app from the Hamlyn Centre which aims to scan and recognise your favourite food in order to help us keep track of our daily food intake
- Find out how much farmland we need for each calorie in our diet, and how many people the world could support if everyone ate like you, with the Grantham Institute