Uncertainty, insightful ignorance, and curiosity: Improving future food science research

Uncertainty is a fact of scientific life. The myriad of factors affecting the integrity of highly complex and diverse food materials contributes to uncertainty in scientific assessment. Conscious ignorance, the absence of fact or clarity, results in communal gaps of knowledge. Uncertainty and conscious ignorance drive scientists to ask better research questions. This paper is a plea for increasing the genuine state of knowledge in food science...