{"id":239224,"date":"2026-06-18T06:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/electric-nose-can-smell-when-your-foods-gone-bad"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:25:26","slug":"electric-nose-can-smell-when-your-foods-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/electric-nose-can-smell-when-your-foods-gone-bad","title":{"rendered":"Electric \u2018nose\u2019 can smell when your food\u2019s gone bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mr0pyCNVnXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of us have used the sniff test to decide whether a slightly expired bottle of milk or a week-old box of takeout is still good to eat. But while the human nose can be quite astute, it doesn\u2019t always catch everything. Each year, millions of people in the U.S. are sickened by food-borne pathogens that thrive in undercooked or spoiled food.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for our collective stomachs, a new \u201celectronic nose\u201d developed at UC Berkeley can detect the scents associated with spoiled food much more accurately than the human nose. It can also sniff out the presence of common <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-ai-powered-electronic-nose-diverse.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">food allergens<\/a>, like walnuts and peanuts, which can be deadly for those with sensitivities. The nose is described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aec7965\" target=\"_blank\">a new study published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2018smart\u2019 fridges\u2014which come with sensors that you can control on your phone\u2014would be a great application for this kind of technology,\u201d said study lead author Carla Bassil, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley and a member of the Javey Research Group. \u201cHow great would it be if your fridge could tell you, \u2018Hey, your broccoli\u2019s going to go bad soon, so you should probably eat that,\u2019 Or, \u201d Your chicken is on its last day\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have used the sniff test to decide whether a slightly expired bottle of milk or a week-old box of takeout is still good to eat. But while the human nose can be quite astute, it doesn\u2019t always catch everything. Each year, millions of people in the U.S. are sickened by food-borne pathogens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1506,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-food","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}