Most processed products on the market incorporate a thickening ingredient that gives them consistency and good texture. Wheat flour, potato starch and cornstarch are some of the most widely used. But in recent years another ingredient, almost unknown in Spain until very recently, has been gaining in popularity: tapioca starch. The reason? Its high capacity to give volume and consistency without altering the organoleptic properties of the food.

Agriculture is one of the oldest productive sectors in the world. For centuries, humans have cultivated the land using little more than their hands. But it has gradually been modernised. Nowadays work in the fields has little to do with that experienced by our grandparents, fortunately for the whole sector. Although some people still have prejudices about the use of technology in agriculture, the truth is that thanks to its implementation, the efficiency of agricultural tasks has increased enormously.

Cinema would not be understood without chemistry.  From the very beginning, the seventh art was based on chemical processes aimed at achieving what seemed like magic at the time: that the spectators saw moving images projected on a large screen. But chemistry has not only served to give physical support to the cinema. Filmmakers also use it on countless occasions as part of the plot of their films.