Team aims to create ‘data-driven food policy’ for California — An interdisciplinary team of Cal Poly faculty members is working to create a coherent, coordinated approach to food policy to replace outdated and uncoordinated policies currently governing food systems and nutrition education. With a goal to address human and environmental […]
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To wash your chicken or not wash your chicken: that is the question that has plagued home cooks for decades. Slimy, covered in pink and red specks — or even feathers, some claim — it may seem like common sense to wash off your chicken before dousing it in spices […]
Chronic disease driven by processed food provided the backdrop for COVID-19 to spiral out of control. Fundamental and structural changes are needed in the way we engineer foods, with metabolic health as the industry’s North Star. A scalable, replicable framework being championed by KDD is the “metabolic matrix”, a science-based […]
IMAGE: Cover for “The Ninth Revolution: Transforming Food Systems For Good ” view more Credit: World Scientific We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. Continuing to produce food in the current manner is neither good for public health or for that of the planet. […]
Fred Miller, Division of Agriculture Gummy treats, created by food science students in a product development class, are designed and created to reduce calories and sugar while adding functional foods that promote healthy snacking. Food science students in Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at […]
Most of us are aware that aside from it being affordable, quick, and accessible that fast food doesn’t have many redeeming qualities to its name. In fact, I think we can easily say that the negatives outweigh the positives. Fast food began as a way to have convenience, and it […]
With a mantra of “fresh is best” in modern food thinking, tinned food is often seen as a second choice, and for some an embarrassment in a country of fresh food riches. But what place should tinned food, especially vegetables take in our pantries? “I grew up on a farm, […]
AFRICA Universities are contributing to the upscaling of insect-based food and feed systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, which have economic, environmental and social benefits that could support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. These efforts come at a time when the importance of science to secure improved nutrition and food security […]
“The standard American diet kills us slowly in normal times and quickly in COVID times,” Michael Pollan told Kara Swisher as part of a recent interview for her podcast Sway. To Pollan, it is clear that people who suffer from preexisting diet-related conditions are more likely to get serious COVID-19 […]
It’s a quip that would drift through my high school cafeteria whenever I’d pick up vanilla soymilk to have with my lunch: “I can’t drink that,” male friends would say, “It’ll give me boobs.” This reaction seems to be rooted in a twist of fear and misunderstood science. There’s the […]