Food Ultrasound

Every December the same small gamble plays out in the supermarket chiller. Two roasts, side by side. Same weight, same price, same shrink wrap. One of them will come out of the oven glossy and tender. The other will taste like a wallet. And there is no reliable way to tell which is which while you are standing there with a trolley. Or at least there wasn't. A pair of Danish researchers decided to settle the question the way they settle most questions at work: by scanning it. A Hospital Trick Applied to Dinner The study came out of Aalborg, from a collaboration between Dr Phillip Kaasgaard Sperling at Aalborg University Hospital and Gustav Normann, a medical student at Aalborg University. It was published in Ugeskrift for Læger, the Danish Medical Journal, in December 2024. The idea started as a conversation between two people who spend most of their working day reading ultrasound images. They had come across earlier research linking MRI scanning to high fluid content in a pork roa...